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Professor J. North

Professor

Julian is the Director of the Centre for Sport Coaching, and a Professor in Sport Coaching.

Julian has been a social and sport researcher for 30 years in a variety of policy, practice and academic roles in the UK and Australia. He previously worked for UK Coaching (Director of Research, 2003-2010), the Australian Sports Commission (Research Consultant, 2002-2003) and UK Sport (Research Manager, 1999-2002). Before that he undertook social and business research in a number of organisations and universities. He has also undertaken freelance consultancy work for a variety of public and private clients.

Julian has considerable experience conducting and commissioning a wide range of research projects using different philosophical and methodological strategies and has authored numerous articles, books, book chapters, and reports in sport, coaching and beyond (see publications below and J North profile on Research Gate). His client list includes UEFA, UK Sport, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, UK Coaching, the Football Association, British Gymnastics, the Rugby Football League, British Canoeing, and many others. He is strongly connected to the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE). Please get in touch if you interested in connecting with the Centre for Sport Coaching.

Current Teaching

Julian teaches research philosophy, methodology and method on the Professional Doctorate in Sport.

He has a number of current PhD and Professional Doctorate supervisions but if you are interested in studying effective and ethical coaching practice, coach development and coach developer development, and/or coaching policy using a critical realist (or other non-foundational, relational, mainly qualitative) approach at PhD level please get in touch.

Research Interests

Julian undertakes research and consultancy work on effective and ethical practice; coach learning, development and education; coaching policy and systems; and player development, and linked systems. His academic work, and consultancy, have mainly focused on the application of critical realism, realist evaluation, and virtue ethics, to sport coaching in terms of original work and evaluations.

Julian has recently undertaken long term ‘depth’ ethnographic case study research (usually up to two years in length) in kayak slalom, triathlon, and swimming using an embedded, relational and emergent (ERE) framework (North, 2017). He also conducted realist evaluations on both coach education for UEFA and British Gymnastics, and coach developer training for Sport Scotland.

More recent interests include exploring collaborative social learning as a mechanism for system and culture change in high performance and performance sport.