This programme will develop the critical knowledge, understanding and skills that are required to work within the contemporary sport sector and wider sport-related fields. Specifically, it aims to:

• Provide you with an intellectually stimulating environment to develop a systematic understanding and critical awareness of the current issues in relation to sport management, politics and international development.
• Develop your critical understanding of the political and regulatory/business contexts within which sport operates and the role of sport in management, politics and international development.
• Give you the professional skills and intercultural and team-working proficiency necessary to compete in rapidly changing global sport and sport-related industries.
• Equip you with the capacities and skills to address the challenges confronting sport and sport-related organisations at the global, national and local level via applied learning.
• Equip you with the knowledge and skills required for effective management in the public, private and third sectors within sport and sport-related fields.