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The Moray House School of Education
Department
of Physical Education, Sport & Leisure Studies |
Departmental Research
| PESLS
staff research projects |
Details of staff research projects can
be found on the School's research web pages where they are listed
under the following research themes:
| Research
Centres within PESLS |
| PESLS
staff research interests |
Dr
Pete Allison
Research interests include outdoor education relating
to values and ethics, people and the environment, empirical
and philosophical; social context of outdoor education; professionalism
in outdoor education, linking theory and practice.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Dr
Simon Beames
Simon's recent work explores the ways in which interactionist
social theory is useful in understanding participants'
outdoor education experiences. He is also interested in
the particular elements of outdoor education experiences
that may influence participant outcomes.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff
page ]
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Dr
Simon Coleman
Research interests include biomechanics of sports performance,
particularly in golf, volleyball and cycling; pedagogy of
sports science teaching, especially biomechanics.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Elizabeth
Cunningham
Research interests include teaching and learning in physical
education; Sociocultural perspectives on physical education;
gender issues in education and physical education; physical
education and the law.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Professor
Candace Currie
Research interests include social inequalities in adolescent
health; development of indicators of family affluence; puberty
and health; adolescent mental health and well-being; development
of concepts and methods for evaluation of the Health Promoting
School; adolescent substance use; policy and adolescent smoking
control; physical activity and health; development of conceptual
approaches that include biological, psychological, social
and environmental perspectives.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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John
de Courcy
Research interests include motor development in pupils
with visual impairment; motor development in nursery pupils
with language disorder; central auditory processing disorders;
skill acquisition in sport.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Dr
Orna Donoghue
Research interests include biomechanics of lower limb
injuries; orthotics and other modes of rehabilitation; functional
data analysis; coordination and variability.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Professor
Peter Higgins
Research interests include development of a firm theoretical
underpinning for the discipline of outdoor education, particularly
in relation to environmental education and education for
sustainability; outdoor education in Europe, with particular
reference to Norway; land use issues, with particular reference
to upland Scotland, in the areas of social, economic and
environmental aspects of sporting estates.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Andrew
Horrell
Research interests include physical education teachers
lives and careers; initial teacher education and curriculum
policy, pedagogy and curriculum in physical education; aspects
of teaching and learning aesthetic perspectives through physical
education; self-efficacy through physical education; using
technology and ICT to support learning in physical education;
teaching and learning approaches in gymnastics.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Michael
Jess
Research interests include the antecedents underpinning
young people's children's involvement in physical activity
at participation and performance levels; physical Education
(the primary years); young people's motor development; talent
identification.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Justine
MacLean
Research interests include pedagogy and curriculum in physical
education; teaching and learning aesthetic perspectives on physical
education; developing self-esteem through physical education; general
movement patterns in gymnastics and dance.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Andrew
Maile
Research interests include fatigue mechanisms in intense
activity; energy 'shuttles' in intermittent high intensity
activity; the application of sports physiology to the coaching
process.
Consultancy activities:
Accredited Sport Physiologist for the British Olympic Assocation
and the British Association of Sport & Exercise Science with
particular reference to team sports, skiing, and racket sports.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Andrew
Manley
Research interests include person perception and expectancy effects in sport and exercise; the coach-athlete relationship; issues related to the professional practice of applied sport and exercise psychology; 'Green
Exercise'; and imagery efficacy in sport, exercise, and injury
rehabilitation.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Amanda
Martindale
Research interests include professional practice of applied
sport psychology; professional judgement and decision making;
Educating and evaluating applied practitioners; peak performance
psychology; talent identification and development.
Consultancy activities:
Support staff for the Scottish Shooting Team at 2006 Commonwealth
Games, Support provision at 2005 World Judo Championships and 2005
European Judo Championships, Currently consulting with athletes
on behalf of the Scottish Institute of Sport and GB Shooting.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Rosemary
Mulholland
Research interests include partnership in initial teacher
education (a tutor perspective); the student-teacher -tutor
triad (the changing face of partnership in physical education);
a study of partnership within a Scottish ITE programme (views
and Experiences of the Studentteacher-tutor triad); stress/occupational,
stress/coping (the perception and experience of occupational
stress among Scottish secondary school teachers); the perception
and experience of occupational stress among Scottish secondary
school teachers (implications for psychological and mental
health); the student teacher, stress and semesterisation;
the student teacher: coping with placement experience; attributes
of a good student teacher (school teacher's perception of
an 'effective student teacher'; relationship between student
attributes and placement performance; aesthetics/creativity,
student understanding and definition of aesthetic qualities
in sport.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Dr
Robbie Nicol
Research
interests include experiential learning; education and society;
the history and current policy context of outdoor and environmental
education; land reform in Scotland; recreational access in
Scotland; the historical and contemporary relationship between
place, people and nature.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Hugh
Richards
Research interests include coping; individual differences;
performance psychology; aggression and emotion.
Consultancy activities:
• Worked with high level competitors in Trials Riding, Track & Field,
Athletics, Rugby Union,
• Windsurfing and Shooting
• Staff member of the British Paralympic Association team at the 1998 World
Championships
• Currently consulting with athletes on behalf of the Scottish Institute
for Sport.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Professor
Ross H Sanders
Current research interests:
Development of rhythm and skill in movement; analysis of aquatic locomotion from
the perspectives of skill learning, elite performance, and rehabilitation/exercise.
Past research interests:
Differences between elite and sub-elite performance in sports; skill acquisition
(factors affecting jumping performance); accommodation to change in surface compliance
in jumping; technique and learning in aquatic activities - swimming, flatwater
kayaking, water polo; learning of aerial skills in diving, gymnastics and trampolining.
Consultancy activities:
• Currently consulting with athletes on behalf of the Scottish Institute
for Sport
• Technique analysis and feedback for Great Britain Diving
• Technique analysis and feedback for Great Britain Swimming
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ] |
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Patrick
Squire
Research
interests include exercise physiology; kinesiology and biomechanics;
quantitative research design and data analysis; theory and
practice of body conditioning; physical activity promotion.
Consultancy activities:
• Present - Adviser on fitness assessment for Scottish Prison Service
• Previous - Adviser on fitness assessment to Scottish Police College and
Lothian and Borders Police
• Previous - Evaluation of Sports Bras for Berlei (UK)(ltd)
• Previous - Evaluation of Health Promoting School initiative, St Andrews
High School, East Kilbride
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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Wendy
Timmons
Research interests include the scientific principles
of dance; the dancer's health; injury prevention and performance
enhancement; adolescent screening for dance training.
[ Contact
details are on the PESLS Staff page ]
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