Develop the expertise to excel as a performance analyst. Using a scientific approach to assessing stakeholders’ needs, you’ll communicate your recommendations to inform practice.

This master’s-level course will prepare you for working as a performance analyst.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Understand and critically evaluate the insights and limitations of using analysis of sport performance in a range of contexts
• Use your expertise to inform short, medium, and long-term optimisation strategies
• Practise using specialist equipment and technology, including digital applications
• Learn how to assess the needs and requirements of stakeholders and understand how to personalise your practice to meet their needs
• Adopt a scientific, evidence-informed approach to solving performance analysis issues as you reflect on both traditional and contemporary approaches to research, theory, and practice
• Collect, analyse, and evaluate empirical data to produce verifiable conclusions and make practical recommendations
• Understand how research paradigms, methodologies, and techniques generate different kinds of knowledge, and be able to apply your research skills in the study of performance analysis
• Deal with complex professional practice issues to make sound judgments in the communication of conclusions and/or recommendations to specialist and non-specialist audiences