Researcher of motivation and testing the Empowering CoachingTM programme. Dad of 3. CCFC fan. Like being outside.

Manchester Met University, UK
Joined January 2014
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New Readership advertised @McrInstSport with leading towards education innovation around sport coaching, development and sociology. jobs.ac.uk/job/DEO620/reader…
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Two years have passed since we changed the 'Social and Behavioural Sciences' section name to 'Sport and Exercise Psychology' It still is a very exciting time for the journal and for researchers in this area @robalolex @DrPaulAppleton, @basesuk @tandfsport tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Thanks @iocmedia for funding my project on coach-created motivational climates, interpersonal violence and psychological health in athletes from 8 countries. Lots of great collaborators on this one! @McrInstSport @MMU_MSSM @ManMetUni_SES
The Olympic Studies Centre has selected 7⃣ research projects for the tenth edition of the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme. Find out who the grant winners are, and read more about the 7 projects here: 🔽 olympics.com/ioc/news/2023-2…
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Dr Paul Appleton retweeted
The biggest difference in #coaching now and coaching 20 years ago is what I call the "transfer of motivation". It used to be that the #coach's motivation was the driving force behind the training environment - now - it's the coach's ability to understand the #motivation of each indvidual athlete and to create an engaging, enjoyable,effective training environment which provides each athlete with the opportunity to realize their potential and fulfil their unique motivation.
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Exciting opportunity to study a PhD in and contribute to advances in Women’s football health & performance w’ @ArsenalWFC & @McrInstSport supervised by the @ElliottSale , linking closely with our medical and performance team! Closing date 13th July mmu.ac.uk/research/research-…
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Glad to share our new article on the association of action planning and self-monitoring on adolescents' physical activity ! A transversal study conducted among more than 13000 participants and across 7 European countries 🇮🇹🇬🇷🇪🇸🇹🇷🇬🇧🇵🇹 🇫🇷
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Please help us complete this National Survey exploring barriers to young people aged 9-18 in formal and informal cycling pathways see our link with @PEScholar to the survey. Particularly if you’re a PE team member pescholar.com/insight/britis…
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This 2nd paper tests the invariance of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire using data from kids in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇬🇷 🇳🇴 @EmpCoaching @McrInstSport frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Couple of new papers examining the psychometrics of the #empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire. This one with Mexican athletes 🇲🇽 ⁦@EmpCoaching⁩ revistalatinoamericanadepsic…
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Dr Paul Appleton retweeted
I'm Louie - Alcoholic At age 17 I became a daily drinker By age 37 I was drinking bourbon and beer for breakfast At age 57 I celebrated 20 years sober, Ran a 100 mile Ultramarathon and became an Ironman Triathlete Will you please retweet? Let's show others we can recover
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Couple more days to apply for a fully funded PhD scholarship with me at @McrInstSport investigating well-being in young female sport participants
Interested in doing a PhD? Come join me ⁦⁦@ManMetUni⁩ ⁦on a fully funded ⁦@McrInstSport⁩ scholarship studying Well & Ill-being in Adolescent Female Athletes ⁦@JobsinSportSci⁩ ⁦@centerforSDT⁩ ⁦@FindAPhD⁩ deadline 15/1 jobs.ac.uk/job/CWC720/phd-st…
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