Coaching Studies and Sport Psychology

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What is Coaching Studies and Sport Psychology?

 

 

Researchers in this area study sport performance and participation across multiple levels of competition (from youth to college to elite), using psychological, management and sociocultural perspectives. We look at coaches, athletes, parents and sport systems.

 

Focus of Research

Dr. Jim Denison
Dr. Denison studies coaching from a socio-cultural perspective. He draws on the work of Bruno Latour and Michel Foucault to examine a wide-array of topics and problems related to the '”doing of coaching” as a complex and heterogeneous formation.

Dr. Amber Mosewich
Dr. Mosewich's research interests focus on the examination of stress, coping, emotion and resultant cognitive and behavioural responses within the sport domain.

Dr. Ian Reade
Dr. Reade's research is focused on sport management and coaching within the amateur sport environment with an emphasis on the educational sector.