Ed Smith returns to the Unofficial Partner podcast.

Ed is the former National Selector for England cricket. He is an author (including What Sport Tells Us About Life and Making Decisions), academic and journalist (New Statesman, BBC and Sunday Times). As a professional cricketer, he played for Kent, England and was club captain of Middlesex when they won their first major title for 15 years.
Ed is Co-Founder of the Institute of Sports Humanities (ISH) which has a mission to nurture and inspire sport’s current and future leaders around the world.
ISH and Loughborough University London recently launched the new Leadership in Sport Master’s course, running from Autumn 2023.

Ed Smith:
'Education carries with it an awful lot of legacy and therefore conservatism.
The world is changing and you're going to need to constantly attend to the requirement to have new skills that fit the world as it is changing.
And that world is changing very fast. I don't think education can just say, here we are and this is how we've always been, come to us. I think real world experience combined with and academic learning is a very powerful combination. It'd be very easy just to tell war stories, and it's very easy to get lost in theory at the other end of the spectrum, but can you bring to the two together in a really useful way?'

The NEW intake STARTS IN October 2023 and applications are currently open.

Find out more at www.sportshumanities.org 

The course has been designed for executives working in the sports industry as well as athletes seeking specialised education to support their professional development. The masters course fits alongside busy jobs and busy lives. It’s ideal for people seeking to develop their impact and effectiveness in leading and managing. individuals, teams, and organisations.

Students on the MA Leadership in Sport programme will join an amazing ecosystem of sports experts – Loughborough University has been ranked the #1 university for sports-related subjects for the past 7 years. 

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