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Doing qualitative data analysis (2025)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Clayton, B., Gale, L., Holdom, T., & Nichol, A. (2025). Doing qualitative data analysis. In L. Nelson, R. Groom, & P. Potrac (Eds.), Research Methods in Sports Coaching (245-253). (2nd edition). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003381891-30

This chapter discusses how to analyse, make sense of, and write up qualitative data in sport coaching research. It starts by introducing qualitative data analysis, its overarching goal, and different forms of analysis used in sport coaching research.... Read More about Doing qualitative data analysis.

Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Nelson, L., Gale, L., Potrac, P., & Toner, J. (2024). Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice. In S. B. Rynne, & C. J. Mallett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport (132-143). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160939-11

The purpose of this chapter is to explore how coach educators can and do teach coach learners about the key principles of behaviourism and their application to sport coaching practice. To achieve this goal, the chapter has been divided into four main... Read More about Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice.

Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation. (2019)
Book Chapter
Doncaster, G., & McLaren-Towlson, C. (2019). Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation. In E. Cope, & M. Partington (Eds.), Sports Coaching: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (109-121). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351200035

The need to recognise and accommodate the individual athlete, when working with youth populations, is arguably more pertinent than when working with adult athletes. The application of determining athlete maturity is of relevance given that children m... Read More about Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation..

The effects of altered lower limb mechanics as a result of amputation on gait and posture and the implications for falls (2014)
Book Chapter
Vanicek, N. (2014). The effects of altered lower limb mechanics as a result of amputation on gait and posture and the implications for falls. In L. Li, & M. Holmes (Eds.), Gait Biometrics: Basic Patterns, Role of Neurological Disorders and Effects of Physical Activity (117-139). Nova Science Publishers

© 2014 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Following the amputation of the lower limb, a prosthesis is typically prescribed to provide the structural support needed for walking. Inherently, lower limb amputees have modified locomotor s... Read More about The effects of altered lower limb mechanics as a result of amputation on gait and posture and the implications for falls.

Arlie Russell Hochschild: the managed heart, feeling rules, and emotional labour: coaching as an emotional endeavour (2010)
Book Chapter
Potrac, P., & Marshall, P. (2010). Arlie Russell Hochschild: the managed heart, feeling rules, and emotional labour: coaching as an emotional endeavour. In R. Jones, P. Potrac, C. Cushion, & L. Ronglan (Eds.), The sociology of sports coaching (54-66). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203865545-11

Arlie Russell Hochschild was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940. After finishing her undergraduate degree in international relations at Swarthmore College, she went on to undertake postgraduate work in sociology at the University of California, Be... Read More about Arlie Russell Hochschild: the managed heart, feeling rules, and emotional labour: coaching as an emotional endeavour.

Adaptation, stress, and coping in sport
Book Chapter
Nicholls, A. Adaptation, stress, and coping in sport. In Routledge international handbook of sport psychology. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054.ch12

Adaptation, which was mentioned within the domain of stress and coping research by Lazarus (1991), refers to the way in which people change according to the world that they live in. Within the context of stress, adaptation can be defined as the way a... Read More about Adaptation, stress, and coping in sport.

Influence of intervals of radiant heat on performance and pacing dynamics during rowing exercise
Book Chapter
Ingle, L., Butterly, R., & Lander, P. Influence of intervals of radiant heat on performance and pacing dynamics during rowing exercise. In Science of sport, exercise and physical activity in the Tropics

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether intervals of radiant heat during thermoneutral exercise altered either the performance outcome or the dynamics of pacing within the exercise bout. Eleven male participants ( ; 56 ± 12 ml∙... Read More about Influence of intervals of radiant heat on performance and pacing dynamics during rowing exercise.