Professional Advances in Sports Coaching

Richard Thelwell is Head of Department for Sport and Exercise Sciences, and Professor of Applied Sport Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His current research interests are within the area of coach psychology, psychological skills and behaviour change, and practitioner development. He serves as Associate Editor for Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and on the Editorial Board for International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and International Journal of Sport Psychology. In addition to his research activities, Richard has extensive applied-practitioner experience and is a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, and an Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. Matt Dicks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests are centred on the study of perception and action processes that underpin the acquisition and control of skilled human movement. He has an extensive publication record across numerous fields including exercise and sports science, experimental psychology, and neuroscience and has presented over 25 keynote and invited lectures in nine different countries. He has held research assistant positions at the University of Chichester, UK and Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, a research associate post at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, a postdoctoral research position at the VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, and he has been a Visiting Professor at University of Caen, France and University of Rouen, France.