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I am Senior Lecturer in Performance Coaching here at the 我要吃瓜, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University.

I have had a long and productive career in high-performance sport and the performing arts prior to taking on an academic role, and I continue to have significant public engagement and knowledge transfer projects with leading organisations in human performance.

I have held senior roles in performance sport, impacting practice in policy in the UK, and internationally. I co-authored the professional standards for coach development practitioners and I am currently a member of The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity's CIMSPA) Coach Development Expert Group for high-performance sport. I also lead the group's strategy for supervision of chartered professionals. I am Deputy-Chair of the Performance Sport Professional Development Committee, influencing the development of the UK's strategy for coaching support.

The majority of my consultancy to industry involves the support, learning and development, mentorship, and supervision of professionals in high-performance coaching environments.

I am interested in para/pedagogies for practitioner development and in particular the role of intimacies and relationality in learning and development.

I was awarded the English Institute of Sport Innovation Award for pedagogical practice in 2018 — the development of a drama-based pedagogy for multidisciplinary teams.

I am a qualitative researcher with a research profile in post-structural, post-qualitative, and arts-based approaches. I established the International Conference of Autoethnography with others, and have contributed to the European and International Special Interest Groups for qualitative inquiry and autoethnography. I am the author of a number of articles and book chapters, and published my monograph, Writing Sensation: Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry" in 2025 with Routledge. This book explores my conception of "creative-relational inquiry" and approaches practice-relationships as relational, intimate, and 'ungraspable' encounters which demand novel methodologies of response.

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