Sport and Exercise Sciences: Fully Funded Lions Sports Academy PhD Scholarship: Tackling in school...
This scholarship is funded by the Lions Sports Academy.
Subject areas: Sport Science, Sport Coaching
Project start date: 01/10/2021
Length of project: Three years
The Lions Sports Academy delivers physical development and sports coaching programmes, with the aim of improving the physical abilities, confidence, enjoyment and safety of young people when playing sport. This includes the Lions Sports Academy’s ‘Rugby Tackling Programme’, which is delivered alongside physical coaching and monitoring. This PhD programme is aimed at understanding the effectiveness of a school-based intervention programme delivered by the Lions Sports Academy. This will include quantitative and qualitative research methods.
We are looking to appoint a motivated PhD student, who is passionate about youth sport and coaching. The candidate will be competent in both qualitative and quantitative data collection and will be responsible for delivering the coaching programme in areas around London. The majority of the student’s time will be spent in London areas, with regular online supervision from academics in Swansea and occasional travel to Swansea for face-to-face meetings.
Project supervisors:
Dr Mark Waldron (Swansea University)
Professor Camilla Knight (Swansea University)
Professor Liam Kilduff (Swansea University)
Dr Jamie Tallent (St Mary’s University)
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