Dr Steven Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Youth Sport, recently presented a research project entitled ‘Graduateness and Sports Coaching: A preliminary study of coaches’ behaviour using the revised Arizona State University observation instrument’ at the INSHS 2021 17th Annual Conference and International Conference of the International Network of Sport and Health Science (St Petersburg, Russia) and said “This project aimed to identify if there were differences in coaching behaviours between coaches trained and educated in less-academic, traditional, governing body of sport approaches and those who were educated and trained through Higher Education routes. The term ‘graduateness’ outlined by Coetzee (2014) refers to the skills, attributes, experiences and capacities produced by higher education institutions, was proffered as an explanation of differences. The link with INSHS provides excellent opportunities to integrate our research with international collaborators and to increase the reach and engagement of the work completed at the University of Sunderland.”
The team are excited by the opportunities for international collaboration and research this link will help bring to the University of Sunderland.
