Sustainable Sport Business MSc

Loughborough University

The aims of this module are to: Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself. Provide students with hands on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem. The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation: A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice. A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments, A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained).

The aim of this module is to develop students understanding of sustainability, and map out the relationship between sustainability and global business. The world is going through a variety of environmental and social crises, most notably the climate crises, and in the module the focus is on the different ways in which global business contributes to these crises (and can contribute to the solutions for these crises), as well as what sorts of consequences these crises have or may have on global business. Various theoretical approaches will be utilized throughout the module, and the students will engage in practical applications of these theories and concepts.

The aims of this module are to: become familiar with a range of research methodologies to better understand the role and adoption of insight and research in the sport business industry. examine the scope and size of the sport business industry globally and the challenges this brings for insight and research.

This module is designed to equip students with an understanding of the main theoretical and empirical issues in the development of sport innovation and an appreciation of the relevant skills needed to manage sport innovation. The module also provides evidence based on applied sport innovation examples from the sport industry. Students will have the opportunity to develop and innovative business concept for the sport business industry.

The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on sports performance and business at the community, elite, and pro levels. Using contemporary examples from varied geographic contexts, the module will explore how sport can identify, interpret, and adapt to mounting climate challenges such as extreme heat conditions and natural disasters. In the second half of the course, the focus will shift from climate impacts and adaptation to the ways sport organisations and sportspeople can reduce emissions and sport's sizeable impact on the natural environment. In doing so, the module aims to promote a critical, evidence-based understanding of the interplay between sport and the natural environment.

The aims of this module are to develop an understanding of the relationship between sustainable business practices and leadership in sport organisations.