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The module provides students with an opportunity to undertake a substantial and independent piece of research. It allows students to synthesise their academic knowledge acquired from the taught MSc modules and to produce a document that demonstrates evaluative and critical discussion of an issue relevant to the degree topic. The dissertation module also aims to help students to develop their abilities in identifying a problem, establishing its significance, formulating a hypothesis or proposition, designing means of testing hypotheses, and evaluating the results.

The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop their professional skills and experience of working in sport and physical activity development settings. With tutor support, students will establish and achieve a relevant work placement within an approved placement provider organisation, to analyse and evaluate how an organisation(s) approaches and addresses sport and physical activity development challenges.

This module aims to provide students with the experience of independently designing, carrying out an appropriate research study of their choice, culminating in the writing of a dissertation, composing a research portfolio and dissemination of their findings. In turn, students will investigate one significant research issue or problem, under the supervision of a tutor, associated with the inter-related disciplines of; physical activity and health, sport development, sports coaching and sport business management.This module serves to develop employability skills, in line with the university's Graduate Attribute Matrix for Employability (GAME), with particular emphasis on the following attributes: Resilient, Effective Communicator and Lifelong Learner.

The Masters Project enables the student to combine knowledge and skills attained in earlier modules. All projects involve investigation and research; some will involve substantial practical work while others will be mainly research based. The purpose of the module is to allow the student to demonstrate the ability to perform independent but guided academic activity and demonstrate mastery of a specialist topic. The topic chosen for the project must be relevant within the context of the name of the pathway.