30/04/2024
Sport psychology events/opportunites - please share!
Putting Sport and Exercise Psychology onto the Map in the North East:
The North East Applied and Research Hub Launch Event - 8th May 2024 at Newcastle University
Dr Tracy Donachie (Hub Lead), Amelia Hooper (Student representative), and the Sport and Exercise Psychology team at Newcastle University (in collaboration with Northumbria University) have formed the North-East Applied and Research Hub, recognised and awarded by the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology, British Psychological Society.
Join us on the Wednesday 8th May 3-430pm for the Launch Event of the North-East Applied and Research Hub. The event will be held in the School of Psychology, Dame Margaret Barbour Building Room 2.07.
We welcome talks from Joshua McClaren, Newcastle United FC Women's Sport Psychologist, and our core members from Newcastle University: Dr Tracy Donachie (Hub Lead), Dr Max Stone, Dr Dan Martin, Dr Adam Coussens, and our student representatives: Amelia Hooper and Laurie Robson; and from Northumbria University: Dr Julius Jooste and Dr Michael Grugan.
We invite anyone interested in sport and exercise psychology to attend.
Register your attendance here: https://forms.office.com/e/XYc1aqNq1H
Any questions, please email: DSEP.NE.Hub@bps.org.uk
Access to sport psychology for all - the annual free online sport psychology event
Psychological Insights into Coaching Practice Showcase - 30th May 2024
Led by Amelia Hooper (Chair - Stage 3 Psychology/Sport and Exercise Science student) and Dr Tracy Donachie (Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology), the Psychological Insights into Coaching Practice Showcase will take place for the fourth year on 30th May 2024.
The showcase aims to provide a varied perspective on sports psychology, and how it works in practice by incorporating talks from leading sport psychology researchers, academics, sports psychologists, coaches, athletes, and students. We also have our MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology students delivering workshops and our undergraduate students presenting on their sport and exercise psychology dissertations.
Although the conference is primarily aimed at coaches, it will be beneficial for students, researchers, sports scientists, and anybody else who is interested in understanding and applying psychological principles to real-life settings.
Find out more information and register to attend here:
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/sportpsychology/
Coaches to take part in a focus group
We are looking for coaches who work (or worked) with youth athletes aged 11-16 years on a talent/performance pathway or at academy level to participate in a focus group. The aim of the focus group is to explore coaches’ experiences of working with perfectionistic youth athletes.
Your participation will help the development of a research project exploring the experiences of
perfectionism and mental health difficulties in youth athletes.
This research project is being completed as part of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training at Newcastle University by Naomi White (Trainee Clinical Psychologist), supervised by me.
If you are interested in taking part in the focus group, please contact Naomi White:
N.White6@newcastle.ac.uk or register your interest
here: https://forms.office.com/e/1EGuZTFUwX
