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Study Details: 2 - 3 years
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Do you often wonder why performance breaks down under pressure or how to get the best out of your team. Our online distance learning MSc Performance Psychology has been designed for those with interest in performance psychology. This flexible part-time course better prepares you to perform as an individual, a coach, a team leader, or to work as an apply your knowledge about performance psychologist in a range of settings including sport, business and the performing arts.
Delivered by staff from the Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP), this online degree is modelled on existing psychological components of the BPS-accredited MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology that IPEP currently delivers.* Modules are delivered by IPEP staff who currently work within elite level sport and business and publish research that is judged to be of Internationally Excellent or World Leading (latest Research Exercise Framework). During the course there is ample opportunity for you to interact with staff members, including: personal online tutorials with module leaders, group work and tutorials. You will also work one-to-one with IPEP academic staff who will supervise you on your dissertation or research project modules.
The difference between the 2-year and 3-year options is as follows:
Whichever option you choose, there are three exit points:
Alternatively, if you want to study a standalone module, that is also open to you. Please visit our short-course pages for more information.
*Please note that the MSC Performance Psychology is not BPS accredited.
Part-time by Distance Learning - you have the option to study for the MSc over two or three years.
The academics involved with this degree have extensive research links with external bodies and companies, which are fully utilised in ensuring that the modules are relevant to the modern work and research environment graduates will enter.
The course is aimed at anybody who performs in high-pressure environments. This ranges from business, the armed forces, performing arts, NHS, and medical staff. My name is Stuart Beattie, a Reader in Performance Psychology. I am also the course director for the Distance Learning degree in Performance Psychology. This course goes beyond the traditional sport-stress-performance model and applies theories from mainstream and sports psychology to various performance domains. The main focus of the course is to teach why performance breaks down under pressure, looking at individual reactions to stress. We then present students with problems to solve, where they must apply theory to practice. Everything is about solving real-world problems. You will receive all the lecture content in week one for the 12-week course, allowing you to progress at your own pace. The course is entirely online, making it accessible to everyone worldwide.
Candidates will typically require at least a 2.ii honours degree. We also encourage applications from those with non-graduate or alternative professional qualifications and from those who can demonstrate at least 3 years relevant work experience within a high-performance environment (e.g. as an athlete, coach, professional musician, business or finance executive or within a broad range of other professional roles).
International applicants whose first language is not English or Welsh are normally required to provide evidence of English language proficiency. Minimum English language requirements are IELTS 6.0 (with no element below 5.5), or equivalent. The University offers pre-sessional language courses before courses start through ELCOS for those who need additional support to reach the required level.
For more information about the course, please contact Dr Stuart Beatie (Course Director).
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more
Our postgraduate programmes are designed (with further training where appropriate) to enhance the career prospects. Our learners come from across the globe and from a breadth of disciplines, including:
All lectures on this degree will be recorded for you to watch in your own time and we will be offering a number of live catch up seminars with the lecturers across each module.
On this distance learning performance psychology degree you will study a variety of topics including:
To complete the degree, students will then be given the opportunity to conduct applied or theoretical research projects or a dissertation on a topic of their choice.
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