Master Safe Sport - Máster en Deporte Seguro

Be at the forefront of the sport industry by studying this innovative course. Through exploring contemporary units, you will critically examine the practice, management and realisation of safer sporting environments.

A Bachelors Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject.

International entry requirements:
If English is not your first language you´ll need IELTS 6.0 (Academic) with a minimum of 5.5 in each component.

Expand your knowledge on the topic of Safe Sport through an exploration of sociological, psychological and sport management theories
Choose to complete a 30-week work placement to enhance employability and improve your performance
Learn from a team of research-active academics who have strong links with both the sport industry and the wider business community and who are recognised as world leaders in Safe Sport
Benefit from the flexibility and study this course part-time or full-time
Engage and network with industry speakers, who offer specific insights, innovation, knowledge, experience of Safe Sport research, practice and management
Graduate with the skills and expertise to succeed in a range of roles in sport organisations, to directly influence and respond to the global Safe Sport agenda.

Understanding Safe Sport: This unit is designed to provide a critical insight into contemporary themes and key issues within the current safe sport, safeguarding and welfare agenda. In doing so, it will cover core definitions of interpersonal violence in sport as well as an understanding of the cultures that enable it to occur.

Inclusive Practices in Sport: Fostering an environment of inclusivity is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic necessity in sport. This unit explores inclusion through a welfare lens, focusing on the roles of key parties, such as coaches, officials, managers, and support staff and highlights their interconnected roles in creating safe and inclusive sports environments.

Mental Health in Sport: This unit introduces the evidence base for understanding the scope of mental health, the importance of maintaining mental health, managing mental disorders, and some of the risk and protective factors present in modern sporting environments to influence athlete, coach, and others mental health. The unit concentrates on the importance of organisations being responsive to the mental health needs of athlete, coaches and other individuals to ensure long-term sustainable performance.

Sport, Ethics and Integrity: This unit will explore the topics of ethics and integrity in sports and consider the opportunities and challenges that arise alongside the aspiration for the duty of care in modern sporting environments. With a focus on critical thinking and ethical reasoning, you will develop the skills necessary to navigate complex ethical scenarios inherent in the world of sports.

Welfare and Human Rights in Sport: This unit aims to explore the welfare and human rights of key actors in sport. The unit will explore the right to participate in sport in a safe and equitable environment. You will critically analyse relevant theories, practical insights and policy (such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit).

Option Units:

The Sport Media Nexus: As industries, sport and the media are unparalleled. Both are highly lucrative, powerful enterprises with global influence. But what is the relationship between the two industries? In this unit, we examine the sport media nexus and explore the varied and complex ways in which sport and the media are inextricably bound together.

Medical and Scientific Issues in Sport and Exercise: The focus of this unit is to systematically develop a critical awareness and the ability to constructively discuss a broad range of contemporary medical and scientific issues within sport. The unit aims to provide a current, comprehensive, and applicable understanding of how sport and exercise performance may be optimised with science and medicine whilst maintaining ethical and moral standards.

Exercise Psychology for Behaviour Change: The aim of this unit is to systematically explore the role of psychology in exercise and physical activity domains. Through a critical analysis and evaluation of systematic, current, and comprehensive psychological theoretical approaches, students will develop applicable and original insights into behaviour change, sedentary behaviour, motivation, physical activity, and mental health initiatives.

International Sport Event Management: This unit aims to draw on the principles and methods associated with an established body of knowledge to critically test and apply theory as it relates to international sport event management practice. The unit will scientifically assess the social salience of sport events and outline models and processes to assess their impacts.

Crisis and Disaster Management: This unit enables you to develop a systematic understanding of crisis and disaster management within key sectors of the Tourism, Hospitality and Events industries. You will also be able to build a solid and critical awareness of the issues associated with the effective integration of Tourism, Hospitality and Events within emergency management frameworks.

Strategic Sport Management: The aim of this unit is to provide you with a critical understanding of the nature, scope and practice of Strategic Management within a sport context. You will develop the ability to undertake strategic analysis using a variety of analytical techniques developed through the discipline of management science, develop strategic plans and understand the key issues in terms of strategic implementation relevant to public, private and voluntary sector organisations using a broad range of strategic tools, models and theories.

Dissertation: The dissertation will enable you to demonstrate breadth of knowledge and analytical techniques through the preparation and presentation of a rigorous and analytically-sound dissertation concerning a particular sport issue using scientific principles and methods to critically examine the relationship between theory, practice and knowledge within an independent learning environment.

Applied Sports Project: This unit aims to develop students’ knowledge and understanding through a ‘real-life´ project focusing on a sport organisation as it seeks solutions to a societal or organisational problem. A distinguishing characteristic of the applied sport project will be engagement with external parties in a sport business, organisation or community from outside the programme. The chosen project will be conducted as a significant piece of self-managed work that will involve independent learning, critical thinking, and reflective skills that demonstrate the application of analytical and evaluative skills gained from the other units on the programme.

This course is ideal for those wanting to pursue a career working for national sporting governing bodies, sports consultancy enterprises, schools and specialist sports colleges, community groups and charitable sporting organisations.