Course summary

By studying sport development, you can make a positive difference to disadvantaged and under-represented groups and encourage people to be physically active. Fire your passion for sport and help to transform lives and shape active communities. As part of this course, you’ll:

• Learn how to provide opportunities for participation in sport for all sections of society and encourage people to lead healthier lives

• Examine how issues such as racism, poverty and gender inequality impact on sport participation – and how as a future practitioner you can challenge these issues

• Build your teamwork and management skills so you can lead on sporting projects to improve participation rates and attract investment

• Gain the skills and knowledge to develop inclusive sporting pursuits that benefit disadvantaged and under-represented social groups and communities

• Understand how sporting opportunities are provided in the UK and internationally and learn about the key organisations responsible for this work

• Examine how sport can be used as a tool to support communities, and promote peace and international development

• The Football Association and other National Governing Bodies of Sport

• European sports federations

• Community sport foundations and charities

• Local authorities and leisure trusts

• School Sport Partnerships Schools and other education settings

• Six-week work placement

• 100% of BA (Hons) Sport Development students said staff were good at explaining things*

• Run your own community sports project or event for an external client

• Sandwich year – a year of paid employment in industry

• Study in our new £45m state-of-the-art Carnegie School of Sport building