Podcasts and Presentations
Day One
10.00 a.m. Keynote – Chris Cushion (Loughborough University)
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Seminar Session 1.
11.15. The Significance of Humour in Sports Coaching (Lars Tore Ronglan, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)
11.45. Coaches’ Use and Understanding of Humour (Thomas Legge, Hartpury College)
12.15. ‘Recasting the Coach as a Welfare Agent: Transprofessional Possibilities in the Age of New Professionalism (Islay McEwan, MMU)
12.45. Ambiguity, Manageability, and Orchestration: Implementing and Coping with Complex Organisational Change in Elite Soccer (Luke Gibson, MMU)
Seminar Session 2.
11.15. Big Society, Sport, and Big Democracy: What is Sport? Who are the Stakeholders? (Cathy Devine, University of Cumbria)
11.45. Why Value Coaching? Examining the Theoretical, Pedagogic and Logistical Challenges and Possibilities Associated with Sports-Based Social Development Initiatives in Splintered Communities (Joel Rookwood, Liverpool Hope University)
12.15. From WAAC to GUBOG: Perspective Transformation in Youth Sport Coaches (Rick Fenoglio, MMU)
12.45. ‘Toughing It Out’: Girl and Women Footballers’ Narratives of Pain, Injury and Risk (John Bird, UWE)
Seminar Session 3.
11.15. Coach and Learning and Coach Education: A Portuguese Perspective (Sofia Santos, UWIC)
11.45. Investigating Sports Coaching Pedagogies in Games Contexts (Don Vinson, University of Gloucestershire)
12.15. Exploring Micro-politics and Emotions in Coach Education: A Research Agenda (Ashley Allanson, University of Hull)
12.45. ‘Right Coach; Right Place; Right Time’: The 21st Century Vision for Golf Coaching Across Great Britain and Ireland (Jane Booth, Professional Golfers’ Association)
2.30 p.m. Gertrud Pfister (Copenhagen) Women and Coaching
Video Podcast to follow
Seminar Session 4.
3.45. ‘We have made the Nation Coaching Minded’: The Development and Ethos of the FA Coaching Scheme, c1930-c1960 (Alexander Jackson, National Football Museum and Leeds Metropolitan)
4.15. Biographical Learning in Top-Level Coaching – Personal Styles and the Power of Practical Sense (Mette Krogh Christensen, University of Southern Denmark)
4.45. Embedding Communities of Practice in Cross-Cohort Collaborative Coaching Activities – An Action Research Project (Simon Padley, University of Gloucestershire)
5.15. Business Strategy and High Performance Management in the English Premier League (Ryan Groom)
Seminar Session 5.
3.45. “It’s Just Another Buzz-Word”. Evaluation in Sport Development, Perceptions of the Voluntary and Public Sector (John Daniels, MMU)
4.15. The Evolution of the 5 Hour Offer for Youth Sport: The Perceptions and Experiences of Policy-Makers and Practitioners (Jamie Gold, MMU)
4.45. The Soft Legacy Impacts of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Cheshire East (Sarah Minshull, MMU)
5.15. 2012 Pre Games Training Camp Legacy: An Evaluation Case Study (Les Burwitz, MMU)
Seminar Session 6.
3.45. Coaching Ethics and Human Existence (Irena Martínková, Charles University in Prague)
4.15. A Coach’s Dilemma: Sanctioning Risk and Ensuring Safety (Emily Ryall, University of Gloucestershire)
4.45. Bad Boys or Sick Boys? Mental Well-being and Caring Coaches (Carwyn Jones, UWIC)
5.15. Developing Professional Ethics in Sports Coaching (Alun Hardman, UWIC)
Day Two
9.30 a.m. Peter Taylor (Sheffield Hallam)
Increasing Sports Participation in an Era of Public Expenditure Cuts – are Sports Clubs up to the Task?
Video Podcast to follow
Seminar Session 7.
11.00. Narrative, Biography and Prosopography: Historical Method and its Implications (Samantha-Jayne Oldfield, MMU)
11.30. Massaging the Amateur Ethos: Professional Coaches at Stockholm in 1912 (Dave Day, MMU)
12.00. The London Olympics, Legacy and British Coaching Traditions (Tegan Carpenter, MMU)
12.30. Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan: Prestige, Values and Multicultural Heroes (Sevket Akyildiz, University of London)
Seminar Session 8.
11.00. Looking Beyond 2012 – Ethical Conflicts for Coaching: A Review of UK Sport-Based Policy (Don Vinson and Simon Padley, University of Gloucestershire)
11.30. Touching Tales: Coaching in the Risk Society (Bill Taylor, MMU)
12.00. Coaches and Context: Do Coaches Orchestrate? (Sofia Santos, UWIC)
12.30. Problematising the Use of Video: Foucaultian Notions of Corrective Training and Athlete Discipline (Ryan Groom, MMU)
2.15 – 4.45 p.m. Multidisciplinary Symposium – Coaching and Leadership.
Ian Henry (Loughborough)
Gender Equity and Policy in Olympic Leadership: moral universals in a culturally heterogeneous global organisation.
Video Podcast to follow
Jim Parry (Charles University in Prague)
The Good Coach.
Video Podcast to follow
Robyn Jones (UWIC)
Who is coaching? Developing the person of the coach
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