impact across the globe
Centre staff have worked centrality on the iCoachKids which provides a European Coaching Children Curriculum which had informed the creation of three massive online open courses (MOOC) for the 6 million children’s coaches across Europe.
LBU research has underpinned coach development and education programmes to sport coaching professionals in the UK. The English Football Association has made LBU’s ‘who, what, how’ development and education tool central to its coach education approach. Sport Scotland have engaged significantly in the Centre’s work on coach development, coach developer development, and on learning culture and collaborative learning.
Our research has provided good practice benchmarks and evaluation and review methodologies that have made recommendations for, and had impact on, coach development and education activities across world and European level sporting organisations. For example, LBU conducted research for UEFA on its European wide coach education framework, the Coaching Convention, which impacts 54 national country systems and on 1000s of football coaches across Europe.
Drawing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing coaches, work within this theme draws upon varied philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to describe and critique the existing practice of coach education. This then generates more effective and novel approaches to developing coaches at all levels.
The aim of the work undertaken within this theme is to have a strong practical impact in the world of coach learning, development and education.
