MSc Sport Management

• Contemporary Issues in Sport Management: This unit will introduce you to sport's nature, structure, environment, and context. It will also develop your critical understanding of contemporary controversies in sport management, enabling you to explore the problematic aspects of learning and applying management practice to sports.

• Sport Business Analytics: In this unit, you will apply sport management theories to real-world problems that can be addressed and better understood through collating various forms of qualitative and quantitative data from multiple digital environments.

• Managing Operations, People & Leadership: You will develop an understanding of how different sports operations analyze, plan, manage and evaluate operational resources necessary for delivering sports opportunities. You will also create a critical awareness of the complexities of human resource management and leadership theory as applied to sports organizations.

• Strategic Sport Management: You will develop the ability to undertake strategic analysis, develop strategic plans and understand the critical issues in strategic implementation relevant to public, private, and voluntary sector organizations using a broad range of strategic tools, models, and theories.

• International Sports Marketing: You will develop the ability to undertake marketing analysis, create strategic marketing plans and understand the critical issues in strategic implementation relevant to a wide range of international organizations using a broad range of strategic tools, including models and theories.

• International Sports Event Management: This unit will encourage you to think critically about global contexts for sports events and how management practices may vary according. In doing so, the team will focus on the management of sports organizations, the role and importance of stakeholders, collaborators, and delivery organizations, and the provision and outcomes of sports events.

• Dissertation: You will be able to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge and analytical techniques by preparing and presenting a rigorous and analytically sound dissertation concerning a particular sports issue. The dissertation concludes your learning experience, where you will conduct a research project. You'll use and present your chosen research methodology before application within and through your research design. The final written element of the dissertation will demonstrate your ability to collect and analyze data and present your findings, as well as your understanding of ethical issues associated with sound research.

You can undertake a 30-week placement at the end of the course, providing an opportunity to apply your acquired knowledge and skills in the workplace. You are required to find your order; however, our Careers & Employability Service and your faculty placements office are on hand to support you.

The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and help you connect academic learning and the working world.