Category: Sport
Confidentiality in athlete mental health care: perspectives from multi-disciplinary team staff
Multi-disciplinary team working is common within sport science teams. However, little is known about how these teams can work effectively to support athlete mental health.
Return to play: athlete experiences of returning to elite sport following a mental health leave of absence
There are no established guidance for navigating an athlete’s return to their sport following a leave of absence due to mental health concerns. Research is needed to explore how this is currently managed and identify issues to be addressed.
Concussion assessments in female football and rugby players
Investigating the effects of concussion and heading in female football and rugby players.
Existentialism and a Department of Methodology for self-development and sport performance improvement
Does incorporating the fundamentals of existentialism – encouraging people to build their lives with purpose and passion – with the Department of Methodology bringing together the work of multi-disciplinary teams result in better performance?
Mechanical doping in cycling
Exploring mechanical doping in cycling, testing for machines and technological fraud regulations.
An illness like any other? Exploring understandings of mental illness in elite sport settings
The “mental illness is like any other illness” trope may inflate stigma rather than reduce it.
Does the time of day of physical activity engagement influence adherence?
Research agendas spanning psychology and neuroscience converge on the idea that engagement in an activity decreases as a function of time between intention and planned behaviour.