SP7029 - Planning Professional Practice & Research

Students will be provided with a research-rich, experiential, and enquiry-based educational experience that connects research excellence with practice and professional relevance. The module will be delivered using a blended learning approach with a combination of face-to-face, online and recorded (asynchronous) sessions delivered via the e-learning portal. Teaching will be delivered between January and May for students starting in January.

The module team will have both academic and practice expertise sufficient to advise students on the planning and execution of professional research and practice which has depth and complexity appropriate to the degree. For example, BPS Chartered and HCPC registered staff will be amongst the module team to ensure that training of sport and exercise psychology students is planned in line with BPS and HCPC requirements.
On this module, students will become part of a wider community of practice, whereby they will engage with academic staff within and out with their discipline, along with other doctoral students in their field and related fields. There will be opportunities in the seminar sessions for students to share good practice, gain formative verbal feedback on their plan of training and research proposal, engage in peer support, and develop professional networks for future working.
During the semester when the module is taught students will have regular meetings with their principal supervisor to further develop their doctoral training plan and ensure coherence and appropriateness of the planned training in relation to their required research and practice, and the content of the final thesis/portfolio. The module tutors will also offer weekly tutorial hours outside of the taught contact time, which students can book into if they require further support.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
• Problematise the professional practice context within sport and exercise.
• Critically reflect upon professional competencies required for effective and ethical applied research and practice in sport and exercise.
• Critically reflect upon the theory-practice nexus in sport and exercise.


Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
• Critically reflect upon own personal and professional standards and ethical practice in sport and exercise.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
• Critically reflect upon limits of own knowledge, skills, training, education, and experience.

Professional practice plan compromising the following:
Research proposal (4500 words)
GANTT chart (standardised template)
Plan of Training (standardised template)

Formative assessment
During seminar sessions, students will be provided with the opportunity to submit, discuss and receive verbal formative feedback from tutors on bullet point drafts of their plan of training and research proposal.

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This module is designed to support students to become effective researcher-practitioners in their chosen field. The module will support students to engage in critical self-reflection to determine the current limits of their knowledge, skills, training, education, and experience and to plan appropriate training and development activities to support the development of practical competencies and applied research skills. Students will have access to staff who are experienced in both academic research and applied practice. Teaching sessions are designed to support students’ understanding of the professional competencies required for effective and ethical applied research and practice in sport and exercise.