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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 Mainstreaming outdoor education; Curriculum theory;
Youth expeditions overseas; Values Education; Philosophy of outdoor and experiential
education; The role of outdoor education in society; Professionalism in outdoor
education, linking theory and practice; Ethical dilemmas in outdoor and experiential
education.
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Dr
Matthew Atencio
Research interests include Physical education curriculum
development, pedagogy, and continuing professional development
(CPD); Sociology of sport, health, physical activity,
and education; Critiques of institutional interventions
on the body (health systems, sport, cultural and sport
media); Youth, ethnic, and urban studies; Post-structural,
post-colonial, and social constructivist theories.
Further
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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.
Further
information / Profile page
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Sharon
Clough
Research
interests include gender issues in sport management; sport development
and promoting physical activity.
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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.
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Eugene
Connolly
Research interests include sport history; politics and
sport; games as decision making. Currently manager of Scotland
Men's National Hockey Team.
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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.
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Professor
Candace Currie
Research interests include social inequalities in adolescent
health; developmental aspects of health during puberty; international
comparisons of adolescent health; trends in health of adolescents
in Scotland; interdisciplinary perspectives on adolescent
health.
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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.
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Kay
Dewar
Research interests include CPD in primary physical education
and developmental physical education.
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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.
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Dr
Shirley Gray
Research interests include teaching and learning in games;
the development of decision making skills in games; tactical
approaches to games teaching.
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Dr
Win Hayes
Research interests include history of learning to swim
from 1846; learn to swim provision in Scotland.
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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.
Further
information / Profile 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.
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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.
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Dr
John Kelly
Research interests include sport, national identities
and class in Scotland; Irish diaspora identities in Scottish
sport; Scottish Rugby Union, space and place.
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information / Profile 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr
Janine Muldoon
Research interests include; transitions (particularly primary to
secondary school); relationships, attachment, social support & social
capital; school culture & teacher-pupil relationships; self-perceptions
and emotional well-being during early adolescence; evaluating interventions.
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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.
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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.
Further
information / Profile page
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Hugh
Richards
Research interests include coping; individual differences;
performance psychology; aggression and emotion.
Consultancy Activities: Has 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.
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Professor
Ross H Sanders
Current research interests include development of rhythm
and skill in movement; analysis of aquatic locomotion from
the perspectives of skill learning, elite performance, and rehabilitation/exercise;
hydrotherapy and aquatic exercise; anthropometry (applications
of the elliptical zone method of quantifying the physical properties
of body segments).
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David
Saunders
Research interests include exercise physiology; fitness
and function in elderly people and patient groups including
stroke patients.
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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.
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Dr
Malcolm Thorburn
Research interests include knowledge representation in
practical learning environments; the aims and intentions
of physical education in schools.
Further information . Consultancy
Activities
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Dr
Tony Turner
Research interests include exercise physiology, particularly
cardio-respiratory systems’ responses during exercise.
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Dr
Martine Verheul
Research interests include motor control; skill acquisition;
coordination of complex movements; perception-action coupling;
motor development.
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