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Unlock your potential with our cutting-edge programme, designed to shape the sport leaders of tomorrow.

Sport has long served as a platform for developing physical and mental wellbeing, fostering social and community growth, driving economic progress, and advocating for under-represented groups. Study with us, and youll explore the importance of social justice and ethical principles in contemporary professional sports practice.

Our dynamic Masters programme in Professional Practice in Sport emphasises the value of collaboration, making it an ideal choice for current leader-educators, aspiring future leaders, and recent graduates alike. You'll cultivate essential skills for success in leadership and development roles within the sport and physical activity sector. Our programme is informed by current professional and personal practices in both the UK and global contexts. Youll study the development and implementation of public policy, strategies of leadership and management, the role of wellbeing in supporting performance, as well as ethics, integrity, and representation in sport.

After the Course

Upon successful completion of the course, you'll be able to demonstrate advanced skills essential for working in leadership and/or management roles in the sport and physical activity sector. Depending on your previous professional experience and career aspirations, you'll also gain knowledge, understanding and advanced critical reflective skills to succeed in a range of sport, physical activity or education-related roles. Our course is designed to open career paths in sport and physical activity sectors, not-for-profit organisations, as well as leadership and management research and consultancy. 

Our high-quality, interdisciplinary curriculum will also offer you a solid foundation for progressing to doctoral research.