Explore our ongoing research undertakings within our workforce education and continuing professional development project.
Coach learning and education
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Project team
Academic partners
- Leeds Beckett University
- Loughborough University
- Northumbria University
This programme of work explores the professional learning, education, and development of coaching practitioners. This includes the sources and situations through which coaches learn, pedagogical practices of coach educators and developers, impacts of educational and professional development activities on coach learning, as well as factors that facilitate and constrain the professional learning and development of coaches.
Reflective practice in professional learning
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Project team
Academic partners
- Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Liverpool John Moores University
This project seeks to understand the reflective practices of sports practitioners, available approaches to reflective practice, as well as how reflective practice can be effectively used by educators and developers as a tool to encourage meaningful learning from applied placements and practical work experiences.