Course details
Performance analysis is the newest of the sports science disciplines and investigates actual sports performance or performance in training. Analysis can include technical, tactical, KPIs, coaching behaviour and movement analysis within a game. It can also cover pre-match, live, post-match analysis, scouting, talent identification and trend analysis.
What is the MSc in Sports Performance Analysis about?
This programme had been developed in response to the marked growth in the demand for people with performance analysis knowledge, competencies and skills across a range of sporting clubs and organisations and it will be an area of expansion in the future. This innovative MSc (Level 9, 90 credits) programme will prepare graduates for future opportunities in performance analysis by offering a blend of theory and practice ensuring practical knowledge underpinned with a theoretical foundation.
The programme is aligned with a number of National Governing Bodies of Sport to facilitate experiential learning. Graduates will be well equipped to serve sport organisations and teams (national & international) but also feed into and drive the sports performance analysis research agenda both in Ireland and internationally.
Who is this programme for?
This programme is highly vocational and practical in nature and is carefully aligned to industry needs, but is underpinned by solid theoretical foundations. The programme will be beneficial to those either wishing to seek future opportunities in Performance Analysis, those currently employed within a club or organisation with a performance analysis role and / or those wishing to move into such a role.
What subjects will I study?
Subjects
Biomechanics
Performance Analysis
Performance Analysis 2
Coaching Environment
Data Analytics
Experiential Learning
Research Methods
Dissertation
Postgraduate Diploma
Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Sports
Performance Analysis is an Embedded Exit Award.
What are the entry requirements?
Level 8 Degree (minimum 2nd class Honours) in:
- BA Sports Management & Coaching
- BSc in Sport Science
- or
- cognate qualifications
Applicants applying for entry via routes other than that listed above will be considered on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with IT Carlow’s Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) policy.
Updated on 08 November, 2015About Institute of Technology Carlow - Carlow Campus
Institute of Technology Carlow has signed a partnership agreement with the Shandong Academy of Sciences, one of China’s top state research institutions, in a collaboration that will facilitate PhD and postdoctoral training, researcher exchange and the commercialisation of IT Carlow technologies in China. The partnership, according to IT Carlow, has the potential to generate up to €5 million in future research and commercial projects for the Institute and Shandong Academy of Science.
Shandong Academy of Sciences is the largest science and technology research institution in Shandong province which has a population of over 100million. The academy incorporates ttheylve separate research institutions and more than 2,500 research staff. It is located in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, in eastern China.
The collaboration with IT Carlow will result in the promotion of PhD and postdoctoral training, researcher exchange and visiting scholar opportunities, according to the Institute. It will also facilitate international projects out of IT Carlow funded by the Chinese State, Shandong Province and Horizon 2020 programmes and allow for the transfer of relevant technologies from Institute of Technology Carlow to Shandong Academy of Sciences for commercialisation in China.
A Chinese delegation visited IT Carlow this theyek, led by Professor Chengjian Yu, Vice President, Shandong Academy of Science. The visit was initiated by Dr. Xuemei Germaine, a Bioscience graduate of IT Carlow whose campus company, MicroGen Biotech has achieved success in both Ireland and China. MicroGen Biotech offers a unique treatment process to clean up toxic environmental pollutants from soils and waste streams and has been supported by Enterprise Ireland as a high potential start-up. According to Dr. Germaine, the partnership bettheyen IT Carlow and Shandong Academy of Sciences will “help establish MicroGen Biotech as a major player in soil bioremediation in China and support the company’s research base out of IT Carlow’.
Speaking at the signing of the agreement, Professor Chengjian Yu said, “I look forward to building on the relationship bettheyen IT Carlow and Shandong Academy of Sciences and hope to theylcome researchers from IT Carlow to Shandong in the very near future.”
theylcoming the agreement, Dr. David Dowling, Head of School of Science at IT Carlow said, “This significant collaboration with Shandong Academy of Sciences will open many doors for IT Carlow. It offers important opportunities for the Institute’s enviroCORE research group, both in Europe and in China. Shandong Academy of Sciences is the largest science and technology research institution in a province with a population of over 100million with ttheylve separate research institutions and more than 2,500 research staff.”
Since its founding in 1970, IT Carlow has generated more than 40,000 graduates. It currently ranks as the 4th largest of Ireland’s 14 Institutes with almost 7,000 enrolments. IT Carlow was the 2014 Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year.
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