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Dr Laura Gale's Outputs (12)

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.

Political skill in community sport coaching work (2021)
Book Chapter
Nelson, L., Potrac, P., Gale, L., Ives, B., & Conway, E. (2021). Political skill in community sport coaching work. In B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, & L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

This chapter discusses the political skill and exploring why community sport coaches might benefit from developing such social sensibilities. The chapter concludes by considering the place of political skill in the education and continuous profession... Read More about Political skill in community sport coaching work.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Potrac, P., Gale, L., & Nelson, L. (2021). Introduction. In B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, & L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

This chapter provides the editors’ introduction to the book and is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the aims of the book and its intended readership. The second part describes the three key sub-sections around which the chapters are... Read More about Introduction.

Community sport coaching and impression management (2021)
Book Chapter
Potrac, P., Ives, B., Gale, L., & Nelson, L. (2021). Community sport coaching and impression management. In B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, & L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

This chapter positions community sport coaching work as a social, interactive performance. It begins by introducing the concept of dramaturgy and Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking work addressing ‘the presentation of the self in everyday life.t This b... Read More about Community sport coaching and impression management.

Trust and (dis)trust in community sport coaching (2021)
Book Chapter
Gale, L., Ives, B., Nelson, L., & Potrac, P. (2021). Trust and (dis)trust in community sport coaching. In B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, & L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

This chapter aims to help you to understand and navigate interpersonal (dis)trust in the context of community sport coaching. We begin by outlining how the consideration of trust has much to offer in terms of understanding the complex interplay betwe... Read More about Trust and (dis)trust in community sport coaching.

Emotions, Emotion norms, and emotion management in community sport coaching (2021)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Nelson, L., Gale, L., & Potrac, P. (2021). Emotions, Emotion norms, and emotion management in community sport coaching. In B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, & L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

Emotions pervade community sport coaching. They are inextricably linked to one’s thought, behaviour, interaction, and patterns of social organisation. This chapter aims to help readers understand and navigate the emotional demands of community sport... Read More about Emotions, Emotion norms, and emotion management in community sport coaching.

Foreword (2019)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., & Gale, L. (2019). Foreword. In L. Gale, & B. Ives (Eds.), Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and Insight. Manchester Metropolitan University

A mentoring conversation in community sports coaching : Martyn Cooke (mentor) and Lisa Snape (mentee) (2018)
Book Chapter
Gale, L., Taylor, W., & Cooke, M. (2018). A mentoring conversation in community sports coaching : Martyn Cooke (mentor) and Lisa Snape (mentee). In F. C. Chambers (Ed.), Learning to mentor in sports coaching: a design thinking approach. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315172279

The nature of community coaching is very chaotic, with Lisa, the novice coach, working with a variety of vulnerable groups across differing ages. Lisa is poorly prepared for the realities of entering the world of community coaching and sports provisi... Read More about A mentoring conversation in community sports coaching : Martyn Cooke (mentor) and Lisa Snape (mentee).