Dr Caroline Heaney has recently had two articles published in BASEM Today and Football, Medicine & Performance. These applied articles are dissemination pieces stemming from Caroline’s PhD research into the psychology of sports injury. The articles focus on ‘How can we successfully integrate sport psychology into sport and exercise medicine education?’ and ‘What do sports medicine professionals working in football need to know about sport psychology?‘ respectively.
Congratulations Caroline!
In December 2017, Candice Lingam-Willgoss presented her research on the differences between recreational and elite athletes’ experiences of motherhood at the 2017 BPS – Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology conference in Glasgow. Fast forward 12 months and Candice will be presenting again at this year’s BPS annual conference, this time in Belfast, on her research into elite female athlete career transitions in sport.
Simon Rea is currently writing a companion piece to his previous sports science text book. This current book focusses on 4 chapters around careers in sport:
Routes into sports career
Simon is hoping to publish this in spring 2019…watch this space!
Dr Ben Langdown has had a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Sports Sciences (September 2018) investigating the ‘Acute effects of different warm-up protocols on highly skilled golfers’ drive performance‘
He previously presented this work at the World Golf Fitness Summit in 2014 to an international audience of golf fitness professionals, coaches and medical practitioners, and has since used the findings to influence numerous golfers’ warm-up habits.
Congratulations to Ben and the other authors!
We are pleased to share an example of scholarship work that has been taking place over the past 12 month within the Sport and Fitness team:
Congratulations to Jessica Pinchbeck and Dr Caroline Heaney who have published an intervention to improve the quantity and quality of student resubmissions on a level 1 distance learning module:
Pinchbeck, J. & Heaney, C. (2017). Case report: the impact of a resubmission intervention on level 1 distance learning students. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning, 32(3) pp. 236–242.
Congratulations to Dr Karen Howells for her latest publication on adversarial growth and to Dr Helen Owton for her latest publication on sexual abuse in sport and book chapter on athletic domestic violence in sport.
The Sport & Fitness qualification team received an Open University Teaching award recognising our excellence in teaching! Congratulations team! Below is Ben Oakley collecting the award on behalf of the sport and fitness team.
On 3-5 May 2017, Dr Helen Owton was invited to present in a symposium at the Annual British Psychological Society at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, UK. She presented in the symposium “Using film in critical arts-based psychological research” with her paper “The video space in sensitive research: Using arts based methods” drawing from her collection of work on employing creative analytical practices investigating sexual abuse in sport.
Dr Karen Howells presented “Qualitative exploration of Adversarial Growth in Elite Swimmers” at the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology (DSEP) Conference 2016 in Mecure Cardiff Holland House Hotel and Spa. The Division of Sport & Exercise Psychology (DSEP) promotes the professional interests of sport and exercise psychologists and is part of the British Psychological Society. Karen presented her work as the PhD award winner and received great feedback about her research.
Dr Caroline Heaney presented “Bringing sport psychology into physiotherapy” at the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) Annual Conference 2016 at Nottingham’s East Midland Conference Centre. BASES is the professional body for sport and exercise sciences in the UK leading excellence in sport and exercise sciences through evidence-based practice. Caroline’s presentation was extremely well received and this was a great opportunity for her to share her knowledge with other sport and exercise professionals, engage in the latest research in sport and exercise science, and publicise the research and teaching qualifications going on at the open University.