Overview

The first course of its kind in Scotland, this innovative online Masters gives experienced coaches the chance to improve their coaching knowledge and skills through cutting-edge best practice and research. The course is also suitable for coach developers who are seeking to enhance their work with coaches.

This MSc Sport Performance Coaching degree will develop your critical analysis skills, improve your problem-solving abilities and teach you innovative solutions to coaching problems. You’ll examine modern best practice in coaching from case studies, peers and leading coaches. Throughout the course, you'll explore and improve your understanding and practice of coaching, developing the skills to critically reflect on decisions, develop smart strategies and boost performance.

Course objectives

Our Sport Performance Coaching MSc is for experienced coaches and coach developers who wish to extend their expertise alongside their sport-specific qualifications. It will develop your critical analysis and reflective practice skills, enhance your problem-solving capacity and promote innovative solutions for coaching problems.

We’ll help you become a coach or coach developer who can:

• reflect and challenge personal assumptions and beliefs to improve future performance;
• critically reflect on decisions in complex and unpredictable situations;
• recognise and resolve problematic coaching issues through the generation of innovative strategies and solutions;
• design and implement an optimal learning environment to impact athletes’ performance needs;
• design and implement a planned and strategic approach to performance improvement;
• develop and manage appropriate support structures to facilitate improved performance.