This module aims to provide students with the practical knowledge and skills required to either rehabilitate athletes or support the exercise rehabilitation of injured, ill and/or patient groups and critically reflect upon and develop their own professional practice.

The aims of this module are for the student to:

• Gain a comprehensive and critical understanding of qualitative research design principles as applied to sport and exercise research.
• Gain a critical understanding and appreciation of the philosophical, ethical and stakeholder issues which underpin qualitative research, and how this affects qualitative research design.
• Critically review and communicate how different qualitative research designs inform understanding in sport and exercise research generally and in their particular field of study.
• Gain a critical understanding of how to apply rigor checks in qualitative research.
• Examine and analyse phenomena appropriately in accordance with research design.

The aims of the module are to:

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of psychological factors pertinent to the rehabilitation process, including the individual and interpersonal determinants and consequences of effective rehabilitation.
• Be able to apply this knowledge to a variety of exercise-based rehabilitation scenarios and examples.

The aim of this module is for students to design, conduct and report on an original research study of an aspect of their MSc programme.