Performance Football Coaching (Distance Learning)
MSc, PGDip, PGCert

Modules

• Academic Introduction to Professional Development Core (non-degree entrance students)

Academic Introduction to Professional Development (Core (non-degree entrance students) )

This summer programme of learning is designed to support all of our non-degree entrance students, to familiarise yourself with core academic and research skills.

This is designed to be delivered fortnightly through our online platform and will give an insight into both the academic skills required but also some introductory content to the first semester modules delivered in tandem between the learning development team and the academic staff from the degree programme.

This module is optional for any traditional students.

• Expertise and Skill Acquisition in Football Core

Expertise and Skill Acquisition in Football (Core)

This module will enhance your critical understanding of contemporary theory, research, and practice in skill learning and motor expertise and consider implications for the development of expertise in football. The module will cover different evidence-based methods and techniques to enable coaches and practitioners to enhance learning and develop elite football players.

Credits: 20

• Contemporary Approaches to Player Development Core

Contemporary Approaches to Player Development (Core)

This module will make you consider how your micro-level interactions can impact upon player development. You will be encouraged to interrogate your own and colleagues coaching practice and consider how yours and their approaches to player development can influence the quality of athlete learning and subsequent performance.

Credits: 20

• Professional Development in Football Coaching Core

Professional Development in Football Coaching (Core)

In this module you will investigate the learning that takes place via experiential learning situations, mentoring and the use of reflective practice. You will construct an evidence-based and personally appropriate programme of continuing professional development (CPD) through which you will demonstrate a critical appreciation of how you can benefit from a range of formal, non-formal and informal learning opportunities.

Credits: 20

• Applied Research Methods Core

Applied Research Methods (Core)

Sound research skills are increasingly important for career development in a wide range of professions including football coaching. This module will give students an in-depth knowledge of planning and designing research studies, methods of data analysis and skills in presenting and disseminating research findings. These skills will prepare you for conducting the Independent Project module as well as future applied research activities in your career.

Credits: 20

• Performance and Match Analysis in Football Core

Performance and Match Analysis in Football (Core)

This module will give you an insight into the development of performance analysis systems, programmes and their integration into the coaching process from the foundation phase through to elite senior level football. Using a combination of applied and academic evidence, you will develop a critical understanding of the technical, tactical, and physical performance analysis methods currently in practice within football. Due to the applied nature of the module, you will engage with and apply the content in your own practice where appropriate in a range of pre-, real-time, and retrospective performance analysis settings.

Credits: 20

• Football Coaching Cultures Core

Football Coaching Cultures (Core)

In this module you will critically explore your own and other performance football coaching cultures. You will analyse these environments from a macro perspective and investigate how social structures, organisational philosophy, national governing bodies’ policy and procedures influence values, beliefs and norms that infiltrate our professional working lives. 

Credits: 20

• Independent Project Core

Independent Project (Core)

The Independent Project is the single largest piece of work that you will undertake and is designed to further develop your knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course. You will be asked to conduct a sustained, intensive and independent investigation into a specific topic relevant to your area of practice and interests in football coaching science and to present findings to others.

Please note: this is a core module for MSc students, but is not available to PGDip and PGCert students.

Credits: 60