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MSc - Master of Science
Frenchay Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
Maximise your chances of securing pupillage by building your legal knowledge and skills side by side. You'll embed your understanding through regular application of your knowledge to scenarios you're likely to experience when advising clients or in court.By completing the UWE Bristol Bar Training Course, you'll gain the competencies required to be called to the Bar, as set out by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). This vocational course combines legal knowledge and practical skills to maximise your chances of success and pupillage.
To achieve the MSc award you will complete an in-depth research project, supervised by specialist subject tutors.
Develop an understanding of research methods and data analysis in psychology. We aim to equip you with research literacy, whereby you are able not only to design and conduct psychological research appropriately, depending on the research question, but are also capable of critically evaluating published psychological research.
Develop a broader understanding of contemporary issues in sport psychology. These incorporate the social, developmental and clinical psychological components affecting athletes throughout their lives, and across all levels of sport competition.
An introduction to the investigation of exercise and physical activity. You'll study key themes including current recommendations for physical activity, the relationship between physical activity and mental health, and the role of motivation.
An introduction to the lifecycle of the delivery of sport psychology support to target populations such as individual athletes, teams of athletes, parents of athletes and coaching staff. It will include key topics such as philosophical assumptions underpinning sport psychology service delivery and the ethics of psychological support. The module is designed to provide students with a detailed understanding of "how" to deliver sport psychology services from intake, needs analysis, case formulation, planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluating.
An introduction to the body of empirical work that investigates; cognitive processes and skill acquisition in sport, how individual differences may play a role in skill acquisition and execution of sport skills and how mental skills training can be used to enhance the performance of teams and individuals.
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