{"id":245,"date":"2014-05-22T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-08-31T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T11:25:28","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Staff Profile: Nigel Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2-768x1364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2-624x1108.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20161228_141927-2.jpg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>Nigel has been an Associate Lecturer at the Open University since 2009 and has tutored a range of modules within the sport and fitness programme. He has also authored several of the study topics including:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E112 &#8211; Introduction to Sport, Fitness and Management<br \/>\n\u2022 Study Topic 4: Training for Sport and Fitness<br \/>\nE217 &#8211; Sport and Conditioning Science into Practice<br \/>\n\u2022 Study Topic 4: Exploring Core Stability<br \/>\n\u2022 Study Topic 5: Strength and conditioning<br \/>\nE313 &#8211; Exploring Psychological Aspects of Athletic Development<br \/>\n\u2022 Study Topic 3: The Coach-Athlete Relationship<br \/>\nE314 &#8211; Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise<br \/>\n\u2022 EMA topic Overview: How does ethnicity influence participation and performance in sport<br \/>\nE117 &#8211; Introduction to Sport and Fitness<br \/>\n\u2022 Study Topic 6: Eating to Win<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work at the Open University he has worked as a personal trainer and fitness manager. Nigel has also worked as lecturer in sport and exercise in further and higher education and as a manager of a sport and outdoor education department. Currently, he undertakes a range of consultancy roles such as the authoring, development and external verification of sport and fitness qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel has been an Associate Lecturer at the Open University since 2009 and has tutored a range of modules within the sport and fitness programme. He has also authored several of the study topics including: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; E112 &#8211; Introduction to Sport, Fitness and Management \u2022 Study Topic 4: Training for Sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}