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Postgraduate Certificate - PGCert
Headingley Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Develop your leadership, management and critical thinking skills to influence sport development policy and practice and boost your career prospects. Deepen your understanding of the key issues and challenges facing professionals in contemporary sport development settings in the UK and around the world. As part of your course, you’ll: Critically examine aspects of sport development, including strategic management, leadership, governance, diversity and inclusion, and sport for development Enhance your problem solving, creativity, decision-making and leadership skills Have the opportunity to undertake a professional project in partnership with a sport development organisation
Study a range of social theory perspectives that provide accounts of socioeconomic material relations across sport (including PE, sport development, leisure and recreation, sport management, sport coaching). You'll consider how key social factors influence and impact sport. Highlighting various contemporary contexts and case study scenarios, you'll assess and apply a range of theoretical frameworks to offer informed analysis and, where appropriate, outline action for change.
Examine academic perspectives on global sport policy and governance applied to sport development organisations working at global, national, regional and local levels.
Develop an advanced understanding of key theories and concepts that inform the use of sport in development contexts. You'll gain an appreciation of the challenges and complexities of sport for development in diverse community settings.
The tuition fee for students entering in 2026/27 is £57.66 per credit. The total number of credit points for this course is 60. The fee you pay may differ based on the number of credit points you study.
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