Leisure and Lifestyle Management

Three years full-time, or four years with optional work placement.

The course covers all aspects of the leisure management industry with a key focus on how consumers make certain lifestyle choices that are related to leisure and the implications this might have.

Stage one

The development of leisure lifestyles has become a key issue in today's modern society. The leisure choices that we make will clearly impact on the development of the industry today, you will look at how the discipline of the subject has emerged over the last decade. 

At this level students will be able to gain two of the industry qualifications that are built within this framework both in event planning and design.

Stage two

At this stage the conceptual understanding from stage one is developed further and students are able to apply management skills to the broader areas within this industry. They will look at and investigate more in-depth areas such as sport, events, leisure, active and passive approaches to our lifestyles. There will also be further opportunities for students to gain further industry relevant qualifications within the programme.

Stage three

Students at this stage will be able to look at real life consultancy projects and offer some advice to the strategic direction for an organisation and how it may position itself in an area related to the industry. Further to this, students will develop the critical ability and skills to look at and develop ideas of entrepreneurship within this sector to make themselves innovative in becoming more employable or even starting up their own businesses.

• Industry accredited course
• Industry relevant embedded qualifications
• Work-based projects from practitioners within the subject field
• Industry links through practical components of the course

• Lifestyle Choices
• Globalisation of the Leisure Industry
• The Business of Sport
• Sports Marketing
• Active Leisure Lifestyle
• Sport, Recreation and Events Tourism
• Cultural Olympiad
• Entrepreneurship
• Leisure and Recreation Facilities Management
• Resort and Spa Management
  

Beck, M.E, and Arnold, J.E (2009) Gendered time use at home: an ethnographic examination of leisure time in middle-class families. Leisure Studies, Routledge.

Best, S (2010) Leisure Studies: Themes and Perspectives. Sage.

Blackshaw, T., and Crawford, G., (2009) Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies. Sage.

Crawford, G., (2004) Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture. London. Routledge.

Gershuny, J (2003) Changing times: work and leisure in a post industrial society. Oxford University Press.

A variety of individual and group-based assessments are used including: written reports, presentations, portfolios, creative project management, live client management and engagement, together with more formal assessment via examination and presentations.

Consumers and corporations as well as global society are today consumed by leading a lifestyle through active or passive leisure and considerably more people are involved in all aspects of leisure than ever before. This has spawned a new breed of the leisure management and lifestyle entrepreneur and industry specialist. As a consequence there are numerous new openings for career-minded and focused leisure and lifestyle specialists in such areas as active and passive approaches to this evolving area, and also more importantly how it is managed.

Will I gain a better opportunity of gaining employment by undertaking this course with industry relevant qualifications included?

A: Yes, as not only will you gain the qualifications that are usually undertaken in industry, but you will already start networking with employers by doing project-based assessments for them by undertaking this mode of study.

How else will I meet employers?

A: You will be invited to the industry's national conference and get the opportunity to network and also you will access to the industry's database of jobs where there are at least 150 jobs posted every month based locally, nationally and also internationally.