Charles L T Corsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 375103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles L T Corsby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles L T |
| FAMILY NAME | Corsby |
| SIGNATURE | CORSBY C L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8639-5618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The capable coach
This study contributes to the developing body of research examining the precarity of professional coaching. As ‘antidotes’ to such vulnerability, concepts such as resilience and coping have been promoted in ego centric ways. In doing so, the coach has been portrayed as an individual who must be self-sufficient, self-determining, and independent; a stance that ignores or excuses the influence of structural workplace conditions. The purpose of the …
Living With Injury
The aim of this work was to phenomenologically grasp the bodily ways in which rehabilitation from injury, specifically anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, is expressed and found. We draw upon the first author’s experiences of injury rehabilitation in the form of diary notes, memory recall, and subsequent interviews between the authorship team. The descriptions offered temporally chart how various bodily tensions are announced during rehabi…
Rhythmanalysis in coaching
This article uses Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to critically explore and make-sense-of the (co-)productive schemes of ‘coaching rhythm(s)’ at Alvour Football Club (a pseudonym). The first author spent seven months at a semi-professional football club by living with the group’s weekly schedule of training, meetings, and matches. The precise research methods included (written) field-notes, individual semi-structured interviews, and visual data. The fi…
The Production of Coaching
Despite the substantial body of coaching literature that has illuminated the social and relational features of coaching, the spatial(-temporal) dimension of coaching has often been overlooked. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s writing of The Production of Space , this article critically explores and deconstructs the dominant sociospatial practices at Alvour Football Club (all names used are pseudonyms) and how they were co-produced and materialized by…
Participant observation
As a method, observation has its roots in a particular branch of anthropology – that of ethnology – and, at its core, involves the immersion of the researcher in a social setting. In turn, observation involves the ‘systematic recording’ of cultural and human behaviour, inclusive of activities, rituals, and relationships. This makes observation well-suited to produce detailed context-specific accounts of coaching practice that move beyond overly r…
Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching
The current picture of sports coaching suggests one where practitioners and scholars operate not so much at a particular interface, but rather on parallel lines of development; in essence, of talking past as opposed to each other. Through a critical re-reading of the practitioner–scholar divide, this paper takes issue with the existence of the separate identities featured, in addition to the argument that we merely need a better, rather straightf…
Coaching and 'Self-repair
The significance of this article lies in examining how sports coaches construct and negotiate their professional sense making; what Goffman described as the practices engaged in to manage 'ugly' interpretations. Using the work of Garfinkel and Goffman, the article pays attention to coaches' 'ethno-methods'; that is, the background knowledge and practical competency employed in forming and maintaining social order. In doing so, the explanatory acc…
Becoming a mentor
A growing body of research has investigated the virtues and complexities of mentoring in sports coaching. Yet, a paucity of research exists to consider ‘how’ both mentors and mentees come to understand their respective role(s). Attempting to redress this gap in research, the aim of this project was to examine the developmental experiences of mentors (and mentees) while participating in a mentoring programme within a University undergraduate sport…
Complicity, performance, and the 'doing' of sports coaching
Recent attempts to 'decode' the everyday actions of coaches have furthered the case for sports coaching as a detailed site of 'work'. Adhering to Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodological project, the aim of this article is to deconstruct contextual actors' interactions, paying specific attention to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The article thus explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Footba…
Observation, evaluation and coaching
Inspired by ethnomethodological attention to social order, the aim of this paper was to examine the visible, tangible and contextual details of how coaches’ observations, or what coaches actually see, are accomplished in practice. Drawing upon examples from a season long ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of a semi-professional football club, the paper positions coach observation, not as a visual perception, but as a locall…
Observation, evaluation and coaching
Inspired by ethnomethodological attention to social order, the aim of this paper was to examine the visible, tangible and contextual details of how coaches’ observations, or what coaches actually see, are accomplished in practice. Drawing upon examples from a season long ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of a semi-professional football club, the paper positions coach observation, not as a visual perception, but as a locall…
Complicity, performance, and the 'doing' of sports coaching
Recent attempts to 'decode' the everyday actions of coaches have furthered the case for sports coaching as a detailed site of 'work'. Adhering to Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodological project, the aim of this article is to deconstruct contextual actors' interactions, paying specific attention to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The article thus explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Footba…
Coaching and 'Self-repair
The significance of this article lies in examining how sports coaches construct and negotiate their professional sense making; what Goffman described as the practices engaged in to manage 'ugly' interpretations. Using the work of Garfinkel and Goffman, the article pays attention to coaches' 'ethno-methods'; that is, the background knowledge and practical competency employed in forming and maintaining social order. In doing so, the explanatory acc…
Observation, evaluation and coaching
Inspired by ethnomethodological attention to social order, the aim of this paper was to examine the visible, tangible and contextual details of how coaches’ observations, or what coaches actually see, are accomplished in practice. Drawing upon examples from a season long ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic investigation of a semi-professional football club, the paper positions coach observation, not as a visual perception, but as a locall…
Becoming a mentor
A growing body of research has investigated the virtues and complexities of mentoring in sports coaching. Yet, a paucity of research exists to consider ‘how’ both mentors and mentees come to understand their respective role(s). Attempting to redress this gap in research, the aim of this project was to examine the developmental experiences of mentors (and mentees) while participating in a mentoring programme within a University undergraduate sport…
Complicity, performance, and the 'doing' of sports coaching
Recent attempts to 'decode' the everyday actions of coaches have furthered the case for sports coaching as a detailed site of 'work'. Adhering to Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodological project, the aim of this article is to deconstruct contextual actors' interactions, paying specific attention to the conditions under which such behaviours occur. The article thus explores the dominant taken-for-granted social rules evident at Bayside Rovers Footba…
Bordering, Connecting, and Dispelling within Sports Coaching
The current picture of sports coaching suggests one where practitioners and scholars operate not so much at a particular interface, but rather on parallel lines of development; in essence, of talking past as opposed to each other. Through a critical re-reading of the practitioner–scholar divide, this paper takes issue with the existence of the separate identities featured, in addition to the argument that we merely need a better, rather straightf…
Coaching and 'Self-repair
The significance of this article lies in examining how sports coaches construct and negotiate their professional sense making; what Goffman described as the practices engaged in to manage 'ugly' interpretations. Using the work of Garfinkel and Goffman, the article pays attention to coaches' 'ethno-methods'; that is, the background knowledge and practical competency employed in forming and maintaining social order. In doing so, the explanatory acc…
Participant observation
As a method, observation has its roots in a particular branch of anthropology – that of ethnology – and, at its core, involves the immersion of the researcher in a social setting. In turn, observation involves the ‘systematic recording’ of cultural and human behaviour, inclusive of activities, rituals, and relationships. This makes observation well-suited to produce detailed context-specific accounts of coaching practice that move beyond overly r…
Rhythmanalysis in coaching
This article uses Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to critically explore and make-sense-of the (co-)productive schemes of ‘coaching rhythm(s)’ at Alvour Football Club (a pseudonym). The first author spent seven months at a semi-professional football club by living with the group’s weekly schedule of training, meetings, and matches. The precise research methods included (written) field-notes, individual semi-structured interviews, and visual data. The fi…
The Production of Coaching
Despite the substantial body of coaching literature that has illuminated the social and relational features of coaching, the spatial(-temporal) dimension of coaching has often been overlooked. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s writing of The Production of Space , this article critically explores and deconstructs the dominant sociospatial practices at Alvour Football Club (all names used are pseudonyms) and how they were co-produced and materialized by…
The capable coach
This study contributes to the developing body of research examining the precarity of professional coaching. As ‘antidotes’ to such vulnerability, concepts such as resilience and coping have been promoted in ego centric ways. In doing so, the coach has been portrayed as an individual who must be self-sufficient, self-determining, and independent; a stance that ignores or excuses the influence of structural workplace conditions. The purpose of the …
Living With Injury
The aim of this work was to phenomenologically grasp the bodily ways in which rehabilitation from injury, specifically anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, is expressed and found. We draw upon the first author’s experiences of injury rehabilitation in the form of diary notes, memory recall, and subsequent interviews between the authorship team. The descriptions offered temporally chart how various bodily tensions are announced during rehabi…
Coaching (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Club (3 works) · Coaching Methods and Impact (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)