Monitoring and Evaluation for Sport and Development (Blended)

With a global and nationwide increase in sport and development initiatives, the need to understand and evidence sport and development processes and impacts has become apparent. Thus, the primary aim of this course is to empower students with knowledge and skills to understand evidence and how it relates to various aspects of the sport and development programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Professional students will develop skills on how to generate, analyse and present evidence to a wide range of audiences. Also, this course will acquaint students with critical understanding of monitoring and evaluation models and their application in the field.

Who is this course for?

This course targets a wide range of practitioners who use sport and other forms of physical activity as interventions for sport and development, for example, physical education and sports teachers, sports coaches, community officers, international sport and development officers.

Course content

• Type of evidences and evaluations in sport and development.
• Evidence in varying contexts including monitoring and evaluation and programme development.
• Programme theories and logic models.
• Evidence and stakeholders including funders and partners.
• Designing evaluable programmes.
• Creating, interpreting, and reporting evidence.
• Applying evidence.
• Practical issues in monitoring and evaluation

Why study this course?

• Increase your expertise and confidence in working with sport and development evidence and monitoring and evaluation.
• Improve your promotion and career prospects.
• Friendly, knowledgeable and supportive tutors.
• Excellent virtual learning and teaching support services.
• Opportunity to network with others in the sport and development industry.
• Opportunity to develop onto the MA Sport and Development.
• Opportunity to attend the Symposium on evidence based practice in sport and development.

Assessment

Students will be assessed on their ability to write a critical review and submit an independent project.

Duration

One weekend (tutor contact) Followed by 3-4 months on-line learning.

Start date: 10am Friday 27 April - 1pm Sunday 29 April 2012

Course fees

£250

MA Sport and Development

The course is equivalent to the Monitoring and Evaluation for Sport and Development unit and contributes 15CAT credit points towards the MA Sport and Development. The MA will provide you with advanced knowledge and understanding of policy, research and theory underpinning sport for social change initiatives in the UK and abroad.

Booking Form 2012|

Training Symposium M & E Prog 2012|

For further details contact:

Course Leader, Dr Oscar Mwaanga
|Email: oscar.mwaanga@solent.ac.uk|Tel: +44 023 8031 9348

Biographies

Dr Órla Cronin

Órla Cronin is a chartered research psychologist. After completing a PhD in Psychology (University of Southampton), she held a number of posts in academia, the voluntary sector and the private sector, including five years spent working as a consumer scientist with Unilever Research. Since completing a Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance in 2003, she has set up Orla Cronin Research, specialising in monitoring and evaluation in the charity and NGO sector. She has worked on organisational strategy, and M&E strategy, implementation and training with a wide variety of clients, including Comic Relief, Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, Mencap, MYSA (Kenya), Magic Bus (India), streetfootballworld, and Grassroot Soccer. She has worked with clients around the world, including Kenya, India, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and Thailand.
A particular feature of her career has been the development of innovative social science research methodology in a variety of domains, e.g. police interviewing, science education, family dynamics, behaviour change, and oral health research. She is also a trained facilitator of participatory strategic planning, project planning, research activation workshops and innovation workshops.

Kevin Harris

Kevin became a full time lecturer at Southampton Solent University after working within roles of developing sport across the city of Southampton as well as managing a Football Foundation project in the city. He holds the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) (PGCLT HE), Post Graduate Certificate in Blended Learning (PGBL) and an MA with distinction in Sport and Culture. Kevin’s teaching mainly focuses on Sport Development, Coaching and Policy. Within these areas of teaching Kevin has developed the curriculum around experiential and employability fields and has pioneered the Coaching Innovation Programme at SSU which mobilises student led Coaching for Social change projects. These are supported by a strong steering group of Sport Development Practitioners and now constitute a significant volume of the Sport Development provision taking place in the city.
Kevin’s main research interests reside within the area of evidence, empowerment and action orientated approaches with practitioners in the field. This forms the current focus of his PhD work which is currently in development and aims to develop a suitable monitoring and evaluation framework with students and practitioners within the Coaching Innovation Programme.

Dr Ian Richards

Ian is a senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Ian is teaches on a range of sports related undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Faculty. Ian’s academic background ranges from the social sciences and humanities to sport and sport event management. Ian’s PhD examined the economic impacts of a Premier League Football Club on its host community. More recently Ian has developed an interest in the sport for development field through undertaking work in Ethiopia. Ian is currently part of a team of researchers undertaking an evaluation for UK Sport of the International community Coach Education Systems (ICES) intervention.

Dr Oscar Mwaanga

Oscar is a senior Lecturer and course leader for the MA Sport and Development in the Southampton Solent University in the UK. He is also a renowned an international Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) activist and social entrepreneur and academic. As an activist and social entrepreneur he has focused his work around sport as a tool for addressing HIV/AIDS, poverty and empowering marginalized groups in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southampton (UK). His current social entrepreneurship programme called Fair Game Football! looks at promoting social justice and economic empowerment through football for development initiatives.

His particular academic focus of his work as been participatory research and evaluation of SDP programmes including Kicking AIDS Out, SDP peer leadership and Go Sisters.

Oscar holds a BA in sport studies and MA in the social psychology of sport from the Norwegian University of Sport science. He also holds a PhD in the sociology of Sport and Development from Leeds Metropolitan University. Oscar’s PhD examined the sport empowerment for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia.