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November 2012For immediate release
Psychology experts reflect on London 2012
A team of Leeds Metropolitan University sport psychology academics,
students and graduates are set to share their expertise at the 2012 Annual
Conference of the British Psychological Societys North East and North West
branches in Manchester on Friday 16 November.
The conference, held at Manchester City Football Clubs Etihad Stadium, will
bring together students, practitioners and other individuals with an interest in
sport and exercise psychology. The conference offers an opportunity to
discuss the reflections and implications of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games: identifying the role that psychology played in the successes and
challenges faced by athletes and coaches during the summer of sport, and
helping delegates to find ways to learn from the events, informing research
and practice linked to sport performance and participation.
Jon Finn, Professor Jim McKenna and Dr Andrew Manley will lead an
interactive workshop at the conference on behalf of Leeds Metropolitan, using
the unique Pre-Shot psychology training programme to consider how people
learn and how this can be improved using the programme.
The Pre-Shot Training Programme was developed by Jon, a PhD student and
Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan. He explains: The concepts
of psychology are often difficult to understand, making them difficult to learn
and then improve. The Pre-Shot Training Programme creates a physical
format to the invisible things that people are thinking. It helps people to plan
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what they are going to think about; the aim is that they fill their mind with only
useful thoughts, so their performance improves.
Jon developed the programme through his work with the Professional Golfers
Association (PGA) and Monmouth School in Wales. It has been adapted into
an iPhone app for professional and weekend golfers and is now being further
adapted for use in education, business and sport. Attendees of the
conference workshop will explore the programmes kit to think about how
people learn in these different contexts and how the kit can help various client
groups including athletes, coaches, students and teachers.
In addition, MSc. Sport and Exercise Psychology students, James Hazlett,
Helen Brown and Christopher Wright, will present findings from their
internship work with young athletes on the Sports Aid b active Sporting
Excellence Programme, supervised by Dr Manley at Leeds Met. James and
Helen will also present their dissertation findings on psychological pressure
training in high performance badminton, and the impact of media expectations
on elite athletes, respectively.
A panel session will complete the day, led by high-profile names including
Mick Hill and Laura Weightman. Mick is Senior Coach (Higher Performance
and Enterprise) at Leeds Metropolitan and a javelin thrower who has
competed for Great Britain in four Olympic Games. He currently coaches
Jessica Ennis in the javelin event. Laura Weightman represented Great
Britain in the 1500m at the London 2012 Games and is currently studying
Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Metropolitan. The panel will discuss
their reflections on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games with particular
reference to sport psychology: what was, what is and what could be.
Additionally, several Leeds Met academics and students, PhD and
undergraduate, will display poster presentations on their work including:
physical activity and quality of life in people with psychosis (Dr Jackie
Hargreaves), doping prevention (Laurie Patterson), talent identification (Fieke
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Rongen), and the influence of sporting experiences on the development of
challenge states in high performance athletes (Josh Scanlon).
Ends
For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the Communications
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email [email protected]
Notes for editors:
Leeds Metropolitan University has over 27,000 students and around3,000 staff.
The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor
Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds.
Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and
Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and
Carnegie.
Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding of theMechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824.
The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed that
the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work, further
study or both six months after leaving university was 91.87%.
Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was awarded
the CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.
In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People &Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally friendly
universities, for the sixth consecutive year.