'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with...that's the big thing, to handle people' - Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club. Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this grou[...]

Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into[...]