Research publications by members of the department include books, book chapters, academic and professional journal papers, and commissioned project reports. We provide a selection of recent publications below, but please see the staff profiles for more exhaustive lists.
Books
Books
Ryall, E. (in press) Critical Thinking for Sports Students. Learning Matters Ltd
Collins, M. (Ed) (2009) Examining Sports Development. London: Routledge. Flyer
L. Dugdill, D. Crone and R, Murphy (Eds). (2009) Physical Activity and Health Promotion: Evidenced-based Approaches to Practice. London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Harris, J., Parker, A. (eds.) (2009) Sport and Social Identities, London: Palgrave Press.
De Ste Croix, M.B.A. and Korff, T (2011) Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control: Theory and Application. Routledge (UK) (ISBN: 978-0-415-58018-2)
Commissioned Reports
Collins, M.F (2009) Some of the large social and economic costs of physical inactivity in Britain. London: CAARE
Lester, S. and Russell, W. (In press) Updating the Evidence: a literature review on children’s play to update Making the Case for Play. London: Play England.
Journal Articles (Recently published)
Cock, D., Nixon, S., Walker, C., Mitchell, E., Walsh, B. and Zaitseva, E. (2008) Understanding student engagement: evaluation of an intensive five-week transition programme, Innovations in Practice 1(1): 36-43
Collins, M.F. (2009) Sport et exclusion sociale en Grande-Bretagne. La Revue Scientifique Sport et Citoyenneté 6:14
Cotterill, S. (2008) Developing effective pre-performance routines in golf. Sport & Exercise Psychology Review 4(2): 10-16
Cotterill, S., Sanders, R., & Collins, D. (In-press) The use of a full swing golf simulator as an ecologically valid alternative environment for analyzing pre-performance routines in golf. International Journal of Sport Psychology
Cotterill, S., Sanders, R., & Collins, D. (In-press) Developing effective pre-performance routines in golf: Why don’t we ask the golfer? Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Holley, J., Crone, D., Tyson, P, and Lovell, G. (in press). The Effects of Physical Activity on Psychological well-being for those with Schizophrenia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Tyson, P., Wilson, K., Crone, D., Brailsford, R. and Laws, K. (In press) Physical Activity and Mental Health in Students. Journal of Mental Health.
Crone, D., Johnston, L., Gidlow, C. Henley, C. and James, D (2008). Uptake and Participation in Physical Activity Referral Schemes in the UK: An Investigation of Patients Referred with Mental Health Problems. Issues in Mental Health Nursing 29: 1088-1097
Crone, D. and Guy, H. (2008) ‘I know it is only exercise, but to me it is something that keeps me going’: A qualitative approach to understanding mental health service users experiences of sports therapy. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 17(3): 197-207
Crone, D. (in press) Walking Back to Health: A Qualitative Investigation into Service User's Experiences of a Walking Project. Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Crone, D., Smith, A. and Gough, B. (in press) The Physical Activity and Mental Health Relationship — A Contemporary perspective for Qualitative Research. Gymnica
Gidlow, C., Johnston, L.H., Crone, D., James, D.V.B. (2008) Methods of evaluation: issues and implications for Physical Activity Referral Schemes. American J Lifestyle Medicine 2 (1): 46-50
De Ste Croix, M.B.A., and Nute, M. 2008. The effects of cognitive anxiety on the biomechanical characteristics of the golf swing. Biology of Sport 25: 3-11
De Ste Croix, M.B.A., Deighan, M.A., Ratel, S., Armstrong, N. (In press) Age and sex differences in isokinetic knee muscle endurance between young children and adults. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism
Sauret, J., De Ste Croix, M.B.A., Deighan, M.A., James, D., Iga, J. (2009) Reproducibility of an isokinetic eccentric muscle endurance task. European Journal of Sports Science 9 (05): 311-319
Adams, A and Deane, J. (2009) Formal and informal dimensions of sports volunteering within voluntary sports clubs in England. European Sports Management Quarterly 9 (2): 119-140
Draper, S,B., Mori, K, J., Lloyd-Owen, S. and Noakes, T. (2009) Overdrinking-induced hyponatraemia in the 2007 London Marathon. BMJ Case Reports. Link
Pelclová J, El Ansari W, Vašíčková J. Is Participation in After-School Physical Activity Associated with Increased Total Physical Activity? A Study of High School Pupils in the Czech Republic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7, 2853-2865; doi:10.3390/ijerph7072853
El Ansari, W., Newbigging, K., Roth, C. and Malik, F. (2009) The Role of Advocacy and Interpretation Services in the Delivery of Quality Health Care to Diverse Minority Communities in London, UK. Health & Social Care in the Community 17(6): 636-646. Link
El Ansari, W., El-Silimy, S. (2008) Are Fuel Poverty Reduction Schemes Associated with Decreased Excess Winter Mortality in Elders? A Case Study from London, UK. Chronic Illness 4:289-294.
El Ansari, W., Oskrochi, R., Phillips, K. (In press) One Size Fits All Partnerships? What explains community partnership leadership skills? Health Promotion Practice
El Ansari, W. (2009) Joint Working For health and Social Outcomes: The Partnership-leadership Mantra. International Journal of Leadership in Public Services 5 (1): 29-36
El Ansari, W., Lovell, G. (2009) Barriers to Exercise in Younger and Older Non-Exercising Adult Women: A Cross Sectional Study in London, United Kingdom. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6: 1443-1455
El Ansari, W. and Stibbe, A. (2009) Public Health and the Environment: What Skills for Sustainability Literacy - And Why? Sustainability 1, 425-440; doi:10.3390/su1030425. Link
Sigmund, E., Sigmundová, D., El Ansari, W. (2009) Changes in Physical Activity of Preschoolers and First-grade Children: Longitudinal Study in the Czech Republic. Child: Care, Health and Development 35 (3): 376–382
Mikolajczyk, R., El Ansari, W., Maxwell, A. (In press) Food Consumption Frequency and Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms among Students in Three European Countries. Nutrition Journal
Frömel, K., El Ansari, W. and Vašíčková, J. (In Press) The Impact of Teaching Physical Education to Czech School Children using Progressive Teaching Approaches: Findings of a four-year study. Central European Journal of Public Health.
Stock C ,Mikolajczyk R, Bloomfield K, Maxwell A, Ozebe H, Petkeviciene J, Naydenova V, Guillén-Grima F, El Ansari W, Krämer A. (2009) Alcohol consumption and attitudes towards banning alcohol sales on campus among European university students. Public Health 123: 122-129
El Ansari W, Oskrochi R, Phillips C. (2009) Engagement and Action for Health: The Contribution of Leaders’ Collaborative Skills to Partnership Success. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6: 361-381
Stock C., Mikolajczyk R.T., Bilir N., Petkeviciene J., Naydenova V., Dudziak U, Marin-Fernandez B.,
El Ansari W. (In Press) Gender differences in health complaints among students: Results from a survey in seven countries. Journal of Public Health
Mikolajczyk RT, Maxwell AE, El Ansari W, Naydenova V, Stock C, Ilieva S, Dudziak U, Rajnicova-Nagyova I. (In Press) Prevalence of depressive symptoms in university students from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Hill, D.M., Hanton, S., Matthews, N., and Fleming, S. (2010) Choking in sport: A review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3, 24-39
Hill, D.M., Hanton, S., Fleming, S., & Matthews, N. (2009). A re-examination of choking in sport. European Journal of Sports Science, July 2009; 9(4): 203-212
How, S.C., Romer, L.M., McConnell, A.K. (In press) Acute effects of inspiratory pressure threshold loading upon airway resistance in people with asthma. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology
Taylor, B.J., How, S.C., Romer, L.M. (In press) Severity of expiratory muscle fatigue is greater after whole-body exercise versus maximal voluntary hyperpnoea. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
James, D.V.B., Mills, H., Crone, D., Johnston, L.H., Morris, C., Gidlow, C. (2009) Factors associated with physical activity referral completion and health outcomes J Sports Sci 27 (10): 1007-1017
James, D.V.B., Reynolds, L.H., Maldonado-Martin, S. (2010) Influence of the duration of a treadmill walking bout on heart rate variability at rest in physically active women. J Physical Activity & Health 7 (1): 95-101
James, D.V.B., Sandals, L.E., Wood, D.M., Draper, S., Maldonado-Martin, S. (2008) Influence of test duration on oxygen uptake during treadmill middle-distance running. Eur J Sports Sci 8 (4): 225-230
James, D.V.B., Johnston, L.H., Crone, D., Sidford, A.H., Gidlow, C., Morris, C., Foster, C. (2008)
Factors associated with physical activity uptake and participation. J Sports Sciences 26 (2): 217-224
MacLean, M. (2010) Anti-apartheid Boycotts and the Affective Economies of Struggle, Sport in Society 13(1), 72-91.
MacLean, M. (2009) ‘A National(ist) Line in Post-colonising Cricket: Viv Richards, Biographies, and Cricketing Nationalism’ Sport in Society 12(4/5): 521-534
MacLean, M. (2008) ‘Evolving Modern Sport’ (an invited commentary on Stefan Szymanski ‘A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport’) Journal of Sport History 35 (1): 49-55
MacLean, M. (In Press) Ambiguity Within the Boundary: Re-reading CLR James Beyond a Boundary Journal of Sport History
Mills, C.D. and Matthews, N. (2009) Review of tutor feedback during undergraduate dissertations: A case study. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education. 8 (1): 117-123
Harris, S., Mori, K. and Collins, M. (2009) Great Expectations:Voluntary sports clubs and their role in delivering national policy for English sport Voluntas, 20 (4)
Owens, C., Crone, D., Kilgour, L. & El Ansari, W. (2010) The Place and Promotion of well-being in mental health services: a qualitative investigation. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (17): 1-8 Link
Grix, J. and Parker, A. (2011), ‘Towards an Explanation for the Decline of Athletics in the UK: A Case Study of Male Distance Running’, Sport in Society, 14 (5): 612-628.
Thurnell-Read, T., and Parker, A. (2009) Men, Masculinity and Firefighting: Shop floor culture, occupational identity and hierarchical relations. Emotion, Space and Society
Farooq, S. and Parker, A. (2009), ‘Sport, Physical Education and Islam: Muslim Independent Schooling and the Social Construction of Masculinities’, Sociology of Sport Journal, 26 (2): 277-295.
Parker, J, K., & Lovell, G. (2009). The Characteristics of Imagery Use: A Youth Sport Academy Study. Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity, 4 (1), Article 8.
Lovell, G, P., El Ansari, W., & Parker, J, K. (2010). Perceived exercise benefits and barriers of non-exercising female university students in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7, 784-798.
Lovell, G, P., Parker, J, K., Cotterill, S., & Brady, A. (2010). (In review) Looking the part: Sport psychologists’ body mass index and dress influence athletes percpetions of their potential effectiveness. Sport Psychologist.
Parker, J, K., & Lovell, G. (2010). (In review) The Influence of Experience upon Imagery Perspectives in Adolescent Sport Performers. Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity.
Draper, S, B., McMorris, T., & Parker, J, K. (2010). (In review) Effect of acute exercise of differing intensities on simple and choice reaction movement times. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Unnithan, V.B., Baynard, T., Potter, C.R., Barker, P., Heffernan, K.S., Kelly, E., Yates, G., Fernhall, B. (In Press) An exploratory investigation into the relationship between resting cardiac structure and function and oxygen uptake kinetics during cycle ergometry in overweight and non-overweight children and adolescents. Obesity
Ryall, E. (2008) Being-On-The-Bench: An Existential Analysis of the Substitute in Sport. Sport, Ethics & Philosophy 2(1): 56-70
Ryall, E. (2008) The Language of Genetic Technology: Metaphor and Media Representation' in Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22 (3): 363-374
Trevithick, P. (2008) Editorial. Groupwork 18 (1): 3-8
Trevithick, P. (2008) Editorial. Groupwork 18 (3): 3-9
Trevithick, P. (2008) Revisiting the knowledge base of social work: a framework for practice. British Journal of Social Work 38: 1212–1237
Zubrzycki, J., Thomson, L. and Trevithick, P. (in press) International recruitment in child protection: the experiences of workers in the Australian Capital Territory. Journal of Social Work Practice and Communities, Families and Children
Hilland, T, A., Stratton, G., Vinson, D.& Fairclough, S. (2009) The Physical Education Predisposition Scale: Preliminary development and validation. Journal of Sports Sciences. 27: 14, 1555-1563. Link
Vinson, D., Nixon, S., Walsh, B., Walker, C., Zaitseva, E., & Mitchell, E. (2010) Investigating the relationship between students’ transition into university and the engagement with peers, staff and the discipline, Active Learning in Higher Education.11 (2), 131 - 143.
Book Chapters (Recent)
Chippendale, S. (2008) Ethical Issues surrounding death & dying. In B. Nyatanga Why is it so difficult to die? (2nd ed) London: Quay Books
Cock, D., Adams, I.C., Ibbetson, A.B., and Baugh, P. (2008) The impact of the physical leisure environment on client adherence. In Gilchrist, P. and Wheaton, B. (eds) Whatever happened to the Leisure Society? Theory, debate and policy, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association
Collins, M.F. (2009) Social Policy and Sports Policy – meeting the challenge of deprivation in Petry, K. & Tokarski, W (Eds). Handbuch Sportpolitik (Handbook of Sports Policy) Hofman Verlag
Collins, M. (2010) Introduction, in Collins, M.F (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 3-13) London: Routledge
Collins, M. (2010) The Development of Sports Development, in Collins, M.F (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 14-41) London: Routledge
Thorpe, R. & Collins, M. (2010) Sport and higher Education:participation and Excellence, in Collins, M.F (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 105-19) London: Routledge
Collins, M. & Sparkes, D. (2010) Managing development in club sport: The Amateur Swimming Association and Swim 21, in Collins, M.F. (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 167-89) London: Routledge
Walpole, C, & Collins, M. (2010) Sports Development in microcosm: Braunston Sport Action Zone, in Collins, M.F (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 190-210) London: Routledge
Collins, M. (2010) Conclusions, in Collins, M.F. (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 289-318) London: Routledge
Collins, M.F. (2008) Social exclusion from sport and leisure in Houlihan, B. (ed, 2nd ed) Sport and Society London pp77-105 London: Routledge
Collins, M.F. (2008) Sport and recreation and the environment. In Houlihan, B. (2nd ed) Sport and Society, pp 439-468. London: Routledge
Collins, M.F. (2008) Public policies on sports development: Can Mass and Elite Sport Hold Together? in Girginov, V. (ed) Management of Sports Development pp59-87 Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann
Crone, D. and Baker, C. (2009). Physical Activity Interventions in the Community. In L. Dugdill, D. Crone and R, Murphy (Eds). Physical Activity and Health Promotion: Evidenced-based Approaches to Practice. (pp. 110-127). London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Crone, D., Heaney, L. and Owens, C. (2009). Physical Activity and Mental Health In L. Dugdill, D. Crone and R, Murphy (Eds). Physical Activity and Health Promotion: Evidenced-based Approaches to Practice. (pp.198-212). London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Graham, R., Dugdill, L. and Crone, D. (2009). Physical activity, health and health promotion. In L. Dugdill, D. Crone and R, Murphy (Eds). Physical Activity and Health Promotion: Evidenced-based Approaches to Practice. (pp. 3-16). London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
De Ste Croix, M.B.A. (2008) Muscle strength. In Paediatric Exercise Science and Medicine (2nd edition) (ed Armstrong, N. and Van Mechlen, W) Oxford University Press, UK. Chapter 2.1
De Ste Croix, M.B.A. (2008) Age and sex differences in isokinetic knee muscle endurance between young children and adults. (eds Juramine T; Armstrong, N) London, Routledge
El Ansari, W. (2009). Forward. In: R. Carnwell and J. Buchanan (Eds.) Effective Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice: A partnership approach (2nd Ed). London: Sage.
El Ansari W. (2008). 34: Collaborative and Partnership Working. In: S Watkins and A Mabhala (eds.)
Fifty Key Concepts in Public Health. pp. 185-190 London: Sage.
El Ansari W. (in press) Key Concept 24: Partnering For Health. In: S Watkins and A Mabhala (eds.) Fifty Key Concepts in Public Health. London: Sage.
Andersson E.,El Ansari W. (in press) Key Concept 24: User Involvement and Influence in Healthcare. In: S Watkins and A Mabhala (eds.) Fifty Key Concepts in Public Health. London: Sage.
El Ansari W. (in press) Community Engagement in Community-Centered Research: A South African Partnership Perspective. In: A Williamson and R DeSouza (eds.) Researching with communities. New Zealand
MacLean, M. (2010) New Zealand (Aotearoa), in Routledge Companion to Sports History, S. W. Pope and John Nauright (eds) Abingdon, Routledge. pp 510-525.
MacLean, M. (2009) ‘Bouts of Kiwi Loyalty: Musical Frames and Televised Sport’ in Bale, J., and Bateman, T. (eds) Sporting Sounds pp 237-250 London, Routledge
MacLean, M (2008) ‘Artificially natural - a brief history of modern sport’ for Roibas, A. C., Stamtakis, E., and Black, K. (eds) Design for Sport Aldershot: Ashgate
MacLean, M. and Pritchard, I. (2008) ‘History for Coaches’. In Jones, R., Hughes, M., and Kingston, K. (eds) Introduction to Sports Coaching. pp 52-63. London, Routledge
MacLean, M (2008) ‘The Janus Face of Colonial Sport: Parody and Civility in West Indian Cricket’ in Pavlin, T (ed) Sport, Nation, Nationalism: Proceedings of the 8th ISHPES Seminar and International Conference on Social Science and Sport Ljubljana, Fakulteta za šport, Inštitut za šport, Zavod Ekvilib. pp 45-50.
Mills H, Crone D, El Ansari W. (in press) Key Concept 22: Physical Activity and Public Health. In: S Watkins and A Mabhala (eds.) Fifty Key Concepts in Public Health. London: Sage.
Farooq, S. and Parker, A. (2009) Sport, Religion and Social Identity: Muslim independent schooling and the social construction of masculinities In J. Harris, A. Parker (eds.) Sport and Social Identities, London: Palgrave
Parker, A. and Lyle, S A. (2008) Sport, Masculinity and Consumption: Metrosexuality, ‘Chav’ Culture and Social Class. In M. Atkinson and K. Young (eds.) Tribal Play: Sport Subcultures and Countercultures, pp.255-271, JAI/Elsevier Science Press
Parker, A. and Harris, J. (2009) Introduction. In J. Harris, A. Parker (eds.) Sport and Social Identities London: Palgrave.
Parker, A. (2009) Sport, Celebrity and the Law: a socio-legal analysis. In J. Harris, A. Parker (eds.) Sport and Social Identities, London: Palgrave
Pitchford, A. & Collins, M. (2010) Sport Development as a job, career and training, in Collins, M.F. (Ed) Examining Sports Development. (pp. 259-280) London: Routledge
Pitchford, A. and Colman, R. (2009) Sports development. In Bill, K. (ed) Sport Management. Exeter: Learning Matters
Pitchford, A. and Collins, M. (2009) Training for Sports Development. In Collins, M. (ed) Case Studies for Sports Development. London: Routledge
Russell, W. (In press) Modelling Playwork: Brawgs Continuum, dialogue and collaborative reflection. In F. Brown and C. Taylor (eds.) Foundations of Playwork. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Bath, J., Scarle, E., Anderson, A., Bohin, G. (2009) Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Workbook for use with Group Programmes. Wiley and Sons: Sussex
Bath, J., Scarle, E., Anderson, A., Bohin, G. (2008) Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Workbook for use with Group Programmes. Wiley and Sons: Sussex