This postgraduate course will prepare students for working as a performance analyst.
As part of this course, students will :-
- Understand and critically evaluate the insights and limitations of using analysis of sport performance in a range of contexts
- Use their expertise to inform short, medium, and long-term optimization strategies
- Practice using specialist equipment and technology, including digital applications
- Learn how to assess the needs and requirements of stakeholders and understand how to personalize their 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, analyze, 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
