Program Overview

Professional Doctorate in Applied Sport and Exercise Science

About this course

LJMU's Professional Doctorate in Applied Sport and Exercise Science enables you to create and interpret new knowledge associated with your own professional practice.

Course modules

Core modules

• Professional Planning Training in Sport and Exercise Science (30 credits)
  • This short module is intended to introduce the programme and support you in self-audit and planning professional research activity.
  • It aims to:
    • enable you to critically evaluate your current status with respect to relevant competencies for Applied Sport and Exercise Scientists
    • provide evidence of a systematic plan for your own development, more specifically a plan relating to the development of your professional practice
• Sport and Exercise Science Professional Practice (270 credits)
  • This module comprises 2,100 of the course's 2,700 work-based activity hours.
  • It aims to capture the competencies associated with applied research:
    • professional skills and standards important for research
    • strategies to support the completion of independent research projects
    • key themes in disseminating applied research
• Reflection in Sport and Exercise Science (60 credits)
  • This module prepares you for the future by closing the loop on your research training, reflecting on your original plan and experiences, and looking towards future practice.
  • The module lets you demonstrate your:
    • overall professional skills development
    • ability to critically analyse, reflect, and meta-reflect on your development and the decisions and choices you have made during training

Your Learning Experience

• Teaching: You will be required to attend the University for five days of staff-supported learning in the first five months of the course (January to May). A development day following this initial period will be held approximately every eight weeks. The remaining delivery will largely be focused upon individually negotiated contact sessions with your supervisor.
• Assessment: Assessment on this course includes a professional training audit, a systematic review, scientific and professional reports, reflections, and a viva voce exam at the end of the programme.

Career paths

• Employment opportunities in Applied Sport and Exercise Science have become increasingly professionalised in recent years. As a consequence, there is a need for individuals to demonstrate high-level professional and personal skills.
• A growing number of Applied Sport and Exercise Science graduates work in applied settings as practitioners and promoters, as well as taking employment in Applied Sport and Exercise Science education, teaching, and research positions.

Tuition fees and funding

• Home: £8,730 per year (full-time)
• International: £18,250 per year (full-time)
• Fees quoted above cover registration, tuition, supervision, assessment, and examinations, as well as library membership and student IT support with access to printed, multimedia, and digital resources, including programme-appropriate software and on-campus wifi.

Entry requirements

• Home: A sport science-related Masters or an appropriate MPhil award in a sport science-related area
• International: IELTS 7.0 (minimum of 6.5 in each component)
• RPL is accepted on this course

How to apply

• To apply for this programme, you are required to complete an LJMU online application form. You will need to provide details of previous qualifications and a personal statement outlining why you wish to study this programme.
• You should also provide two programme-relevant references, at least one of which must be an academic reference.

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