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MSc - Master of Science
Llandaff Campus - Cardiff Metropolitan University
Part Time
Feb 2027
3 Year
Nutrition improves performance, whether in elite sport, amateur fitness or exercise among the general population. This course will enable you to gain the evidence-based knowledge and skills needed to become a professional Sports and Exercise Nutritionist. The course has been designed to enable you to join the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR), the professional register for qualified sports and exercise nutritionists in the UK. You’ll be taught by experienced academics, including registered SENR practitioners, to ensure you enter the workplace with the skills you need to positively impact performance of whoever you are working with. Professional Recognition Our programme has been accredited by the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR) and has met the competencies required for graduate registration of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR).
The module aims to develop an understanding of the physiological and biochemical demands of participation in sport and exercise, and how these demands inform and influence nutritional requirements of individuals to optimise health, performance, and recovery.
This module aims to enhance the student’s ability to showcase detailed knowledge and application of key sports nutrition principles needed to support different athletic populations. Additionally, students will complete the UKAD Clean Sport Hub – Introduction to Clean Sport to develop a critical understanding of anti-doping and doping violations.
The aim of this module is to develop the practical skills and competencies required of a Sport & Exercise Nutritionist (SENR) through applied case studies and sports nutrition kitchen practical work to prepare students for working within the sport and exercise setting.
The aim of the module is to enable students to develop their research skills to apply principles of evidence-based practice, and design and carry out robust research projects.
The module aims to equip students to critically evaluate their individual learning requirements in relation to a specified and justified area of practice that involves the requirement to resolve high level, complex, practice scenarios, and to structure an approach to their own learning to satisfy specified learning outcomes.
Students complete this module after they have completed the Advancing Personal Skills and Practice in the Workplace module. The module adopts a similar approach and further advances practice by requiring students to develop an aspect or level of practice distinct from that previously undertaken.
The aim of this module is to enable students to design and develop an advanced specialist project in their discipline to enhance their own and/or others’ learning, work, or practice, and to evaluate their own knowledge, skills, interests and ambitions to create their own personal career development plan.
The aim of this module is to enable students to work independently to investigate an area in their discipline relevant to their own learning, work, or practice, and to present and discuss their findings, demonstrating a systematic understanding and critical awareness of their discipline and area of professional practice. We offer a broad range of project types including empirical research projects, enterprise/innovation projects (e.g., business planning or consultancy), or product/intervention design. Students can also complete the project as a placement/professional practice development project, focused on developing and demonstrating a specific set of professional knowledge, skills and competencies and their application in practice.
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