Robyn Jones
FagområdeCoaching
Sociology
Qualitative research
UndervisningMAS475 Coaching
Prosjekter
- With Dr. Laura Purdy (University of Limerick, Ireland) and Dr. Paul Potrac (UNITEC, New Zealand); a joint project into defining and exploring the social climate established by coaches at elite training camps
- With Dr. Chris Cushion (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK); a joint project into a Bourdieuan analysis of professional youth soccer coaching
- With Colleagues at UWIC (led by Prof D. Kerwin) and partners (The University of Cambridge, University College London [UCL] and the Royal Veterinary College [RVC] as part of an EPSRC grant worth £3.3m); (section1) joint project into the sources and applications of sprint coaches’ knowledge
- With Kerry Harris (PhD candidate, UWIC); project into the viability of action research as a method to teach coaching
- Autoethnography as a method to develop coaches’ knowledge
- With Dr. Paul Potrac (UNITEC, New Zealand); joint project into the micro-politics and power relations of coaching
- With Dr. Chris Cushion (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), Dr. Paul Potrac (UNITEC, New Zealand) and Dr. Lars Tore Ronglan (NSSS, Norway); joint project into further redefining coaching as a sociological endeavour
- How can sociology inform coaching?
PublikasjonerCassidy, T., Jones, R.L., & Potrac, P. (2004). Understanding sports coaching: The social, cultural and pedagogical foundations of coaching practice. London: Routledge.
Jones, R.L., Armour, K.M., & Potrac, P. (2004). Sports coaching cultures: From practice to theory. London: Routledge.
Jones, R.L. (2006) (Ed.). The sports coach as educator: Re-conceptualising sports coaching. London: Routledge.
Jones, R.L. (in press). Coaching redefined: An everyday pedagogical endeavour. Sport, Education and Society.
Cushion, C., & Jones, R.L. (2006). Power, discourse and symbolic violence in professional youth soccer: The case of Albion F.C. Sociology of Sport Journal, 23(2), 142-161.
Jones, R.L. (2006). Dilemmas, maintaining ‘face’ and paranoia: An average coaching life. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(5), 1012-1021.
Bowes, I., & Jones, R.L. (2006). Working at the edge of chaos: Understanding coaching as a complex, interpersonal system. The Sport Psychologist, 20(2), 235-245.
Jones, R.L., & Turner, P. (2006). Teaching coaches to coach holistically: The case for a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 11(2), 181-202.
Cushion, C., Armour, K.M., & Jones, R.L. (2006). Locating the coaching process in practice: Models ‘for’ and ‘of’ coaching. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 11(1), 83-99.
Jones, R.L., Glintmeyer, N., & McKenzie, A. (2005). Slim bodies, eating disorders and the coach-athlete relationship: A tale of identity creation and disruption. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40(3), 377-391.