Enhancing coach learning, employability and mobility in the EU
Providing a continentally accepted reference point, framework, and common language to enhance the learning, mobility and employability of coaches in the EU.
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INSTITUTE FOR SPORT, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & LEISURE
Working together to find solutions
Research With Impact
Our collaborative and collegial culture is driven by a mission to make a positive and decisive difference to people, communities and organisations through innovative, high-quality research that transforms policy and practice.
We offer unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise across sport and exercise, leisure and tourism.
The vision for our Institute is ambitious and global.
Research in the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure (ISPAL) is thematic in nature. Underpinned by multi- and interdisciplinary approaches, our work spans basic through to applied research.
Professor Susan Backhouse
Director of Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure
Our research community features 200+
Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Senior Research Fellows, Post Doctoral Research Fellows, Research Associates, and Postgraduate Research Students.
Read about our Carnegie Mentoring Scheme.
Interested in studying for a research degree?
The Graduate School at Leeds Beckett offers a range of options for you to undertake a postgraduate research programme, from Master of Research, through to Master of Philosophy, Professional Doctorates and PhDs.
Community interventions to improve the promotion of physical activity
Helping health systems re-align their goals with those of communities to create lifestyle change.
Evaluating and improving coach education provision across European football
Reviewing the UEFA Coaching Convention and marketing recommendations for its future.
Promoting the diversity of the coaching workforce
Utilising a multi-disciplinary perspective to address the lack of diversity in the coaching workforce.
Doping prevention: raising awareness, shaping policy and changing practice in EU 28
Presenting a new map of legal, regulatory and prevention practice provisions on doping for the 28 EU member states to guide future EU recommendations.
Whole systems obesity
By embracing a whole systems approach, our work recognises the complexity of obesity and provides new ways of thinking and working. Our interventions benefit 10,000 people each year.
Spotlight On Research
Consultancy & Enterprise Services
Our high-quality research advances knowledge and influences the practice of others in sport, public health, business, and industry. Our Carnegie Solutions for Health and Performance service delivers consultancy to meet the needs of those we are seeking to support. In doing so we hope to effect positive change, as evident through our Carnegie Great Outdoors programme.
