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Dr Adam Gledhill

Course Director

Adam is a Course Director: Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES), a Chartered Scientist and a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist.

Since beginning his teaching career in 2001, Adam has held various teaching, lecturing and leadership responsibilities across sport and exercise sciences, sports coaching, and sports therapy programmes in further and higher education settings. He has an eclectic range of teaching interests but has main teaching foci of applied sport and exercise psychology, psychology of sports injury and rehabilitation, research in practice, and professional practice and development. Adam joined Leeds Beckett University in 2014 as a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy, before moving to the Carnegie School of Sport in September 2016 to take up a post of Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology. In 2017, Adam was appointed to his current role of Course Director.

Adam has experience of applied work with a range of athletes and other key stakeholders from a variety of sports including football, basketball, rugby and track and field athletics where he has developed an appreciation for conducting his applied work from an interdisciplinary, client-centred perspective. Notable roles within these have included working as Head of Sport Science in an elite women’s football setting and as Head of Player Psychosocial Development in a Tier 1 Football Association Licensed Girl’s Regional Talent Club. In recognition of his approaches to applied practice, Adam was awarded the 2020 BASES Applied Practitioner Award.

Outside his teaching and applied work in sport, Adam has fulfilled a variety of educational consultancy roles and made a number of contributions to professional bodies. He has worked for a major international awarding body as a qualification writer, as part of qualification scrutiny panels, and in a number of quality improvement roles. Adam has also worked as a consultant delivering educational training workshops across the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia. In January 2018, Adam was appointed as an Associate Editor with the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Later that year, Adam was also appointed as the Deputy Chair of the BASES Division of Psychology. Adam has also advised on professional education and endorsement standards across sport and exercise medicine and sport and exercise sciences. He was a member of the BASES Undergraduate Endorsement Scheme Review Group as a contributing author and has taken a leading role in the development of the BASES Postgraduate Endorsement Schemes. Adam also advised on the psychology of sports injury and rehabilitation section of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers Education Framework (8th edition).

In recognition of his esteemed professional achievement, skills, knowledge and service to BASES and the broader sport and exercise science community, Adam was awarded Fellowship of BASES in 2019.

Current Teaching

Adam currently teaches on the following courses:

BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
BSc (Hons) Science of Sport Performance
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy
MSc Psychology of Sport and Exercise
MSc Sport and Exercise Science

In addition to his teaching commitments, Adam also advises on and supervises research awards within sport psychology and sport medicine.

Research Interests

Adam is an active researcher within the broad area of the psychology of sports injury; examining psychosocial considerations within injury risk, rehabilitation and the return to participation, sport and performance. These research findings have contributed to the education of sports injury rehabilitation practitioners, such as physiotherapists and sports therapists. Specifically, Adam's research has informed the psychology of sports injury and rehabilitation section of the 8th Edition of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers Education Framework, underpinned online CPD activities for the British Medical Journal group, and are currently being used to develop CPD resources for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

Adam also actively researches centred on player, career and talent development in youth sport, predominantly in women's and girls' football. He has active research interests in psychosocial factors associated with talent and career development in girls' talent development environments and his research findings have been used to inform player development strategies within these settings. Moreover, findings from Adam's research have informed the development of education within major national organisations, such as the Youth Sport Trust and the Football Association.