Dave Collins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3694440 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dave Collins |
| NOMBRES | Dave |
| APELLIDO | Collins |
| FIRMA | COLLINS D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7601-0454 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Exploring the development of ‘understanding’ in high-level youth soccer players
Background: Developing understanding, and tactical understanding in particular, is an important goal for coaches in high-level youth sport. Deeper understanding can be associated with metacognition, which in soccer, is suggestive of players who can outwit the opponent by strategising. Although attractive, however, the construct is difficult to operationalise and hence, is seen as a challenging area, albeit a crucial one. Purposes: This study test…
Considering Golden Section Proportionality in Popular Music
The Golden Section, sometimes referred to as the “golden ratio” or “golden mean”, has been referenced in many studies in the arts, serving as a mathematically-based aesthetic criterion for form, structure, proportionality, and balance. In the domain of musical composition, scholars have noted the relationship between the golden section and musical structure; I will briefly illustrate how these studies have focused on proportions and structures in…
Developing Coaches Through a Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach
A cognitive apprenticeship (CA) approach to the development of professional judgement and decision making has been examined in a variety of professional contexts in recent years. More recently several authors have theorised that CA may be an effective approach to developing judgement and decision making in outdoor professionals. This paper reports on a unique study of an in-house national coach development programme in the Outward Bound Trust (th…
The Unholy Trinity
Educational reforms have increasingly shifted from teacher and content-centric approaches to prioritising the students’ needs, sometimes even extending this beyond academic success. Academic success is easily measured through standardised assessments; however, the ‘life skills’ that students require for more general success—such as self-regulation, goal-setting, and distraction control—are harder to quantify and therefore harder to implement and …
Golf coaches’ perceptions of the role and use of player errors in motor learning
Background As coaching science has improved, there is increasing recognition that all aspects of a learner’s experience can be utilized beneficially when coaches make effective decisions about what should and should not be addressed. In this regard, learners’ mistakes are potentially confusing for applied sport practitioners, given their seemingly beneficial role in long-term learning, however, at the expense of short-term performance. Recent res…
Leading the dance
Understanding how motivation works is important for teachers in any domain. The landscape for dance teaching is continuously evolving, and teachers are exploring effective ways to motivate and engage pupils in their dance classes. Knowing what works for pupils and why will influence an individual’s initial choice to take part in dance sessions. Further evolution of these motives will encourage them towards longer-term adherence. In this position …
“The show must go on!” dance talent development in the context of coping during the Covid-19 pandemic
Psychobehavioral skills are acknowledged as useful for coping within talent development pathways, but the idiosyncratic nature of challenge experienced across individuals makes it hard to evaluate their use and efficacy. This study aimed to explore the impact of a generic stressor, the COVID-19 lockdowns, on dancers within a talent development pathway. We were interested in how dancers were perceived to have coped with this challenge and what ski…
Sensing the direction of leadership and social identity in dance education
There is a clear consensus that skills relating to creating, performing, and appreciating dance are all critical to the learning experience. The Social Identity in Leadership (SIL) model, recently applied in sports coaching environments, argues that leadership is best understood in terms of the relationship between the leader and followers within a particular social or cultural group. SIL addresses how individuals who share a common social identi…
Team decision-making
Introduction The focus of this article is on developing and operationalising shared mental models in elite sports teams, using a Decision-Making Framework.The Decision-making Framework innovatively integrates Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) methods into off-field after action review meetings (AAR) to enhance on-field performance. Methods Using a mixed method approach, fourteen international players and three expert coaches participated in this stud…
Investigating the cultural sensitivity of athletic talent
It has been suggested that models of athletic talent are not universally applicable and that attempts to uncritically replicate successful ideas from one country to another may be problematic. From a holistic ecological perspective, this may be a result of differences in macro-level variables. In short, athletic talent, or at least some aspects of its expression, may be culturally sensitive. This study explored whether models of athletic talent s…
Everybody wants to coach it, but fewer know how to do it
Background/objectivesIn recent years, the role of psychological training in youth sports has received increasing attention in both research and practice. The development of mental skills is important for sporting excellence, as it improves performance and helps athletes grow in their personality. This study aimed to explore the views of a wide range of stakeholders in youth sports on current practices, challenges, and opportunities related to men…
Developing a love for playing games
Background In recent years there has been a growing interest in potential pedagogical tools to be used in Physical Education (PE), and specifically in games. This has involved the exploration of both Gamification and Digital Video Games Approach (DVGA). Both are viable pedagogical tools for any teacher, and each have clearly different intentions for impacting student learning. Unfortunately, and despite several distinctions, they have been misint…
Speciality grand challenge
As a domain for study, coaching has become really popular. More undergraduate, masters' and doctoral programmes demonstrate both interest and consequential explosion of knowledge in this topic. Furthermore, coaching science receives interest from business/executive work, lifestyle and counselling. This is paralleled by increasing diversity of interest in the processes and mechanisms of coaching itself. As such, I offer this grand challenge paper …
Bouncing back
IntroductionAlthough substantial research indicates that challenge plays a big role in the development of talent, little is known of the experiences of young performers as they negotiate and learn from these challenges.MethodsAs such, to better understand the nature and impact of challenge on the Talent Development (TD) pathway, we longitudinally tracked nine young footballers from progressive age-bands (five aged 11 years and four aged 14) as th…
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding
Background Invasion team sports such as soccer require teams and individual players to understand the game and problem solve. One aspect of problem solving that has recently been more prominent in team sport literature is the role of metacognition.Purpose The purpose of the current study was to examine how high-level youth soccer players approach and solve problems, with a particular focus on the role of strategic understanding. We were intereste…
Getting on the same page” enhancing team performance with shared mental models—case studies of evidence informed practice in elite sport
Within high performing, team invasion sports, collective decision making and coordination between teammates are essential characteristics. There is a wealth of evidence supportive of shared mental models as being an important construct to underpin team coordination. Yet, to this point, there is limited research considering the coaches' voices in the application of shared mental models in high performance sport, nor the challenges coaches face thr…
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet’
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The 3Ps
There is growing recognition of the value of "in situ" coach development practice across a variety sporting contexts. Unfortunately, however, there remains a limited number of tools available with which to observe coaching practice. In this study, we pilot and test a quasi-systematic tool for observation in the form of the 3Ps. Drawing on a range of representational perspectives, the theoretically neutral labels of "procedure", "planning", and "p…
Blank canvas or under construction? Examining the pre-academy experiences of young developing professional team sports athletes
IntroductionExtensive research has been carried out on Talent Development (TD) environments and an increasing amount of work shows the development of psychological characteristics as an important formal part of the academy experience. Importantly, however, very little attention has been paid to what types of skills, if any, young players arrive with. In other words, there seems to be an assumption that young athletes arrive at the academy as a bl…
The Gombe Ecosystem Health Project
Infectious disease outbreaks pose a significant threat to the conservation of chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) and all threatened nonhuman primates. Characterizing and mitigating these threats to support the sustainability and welfare of wild populations is of the highest priority. In an attempt to understand and mitigate the risk of disease for the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, we initiated a long‐term health‐monitoring program in…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport
In recent years, high-performance sport has seen a rising interest in Psychological Safety, a construct with a strong empirical basis in certain business contexts. As research and practice interest grows in PS, there are early indications of practitioners and, to a lesser extent research, treating the construct as being universally transferable. We offer three central concerns with this situation. Firstly, it seems that a variety of different int…
Using Flipgrid to improve reflection
Background: Coaching researchers have stressed the need for critical reflection in practitioners, as an important tool to facilitate development. In parallel, however, coaches’ preference for more informal development methods are well documented. The increased impact of social media and other online applications offers new ways to pursue these important factors, and previous research has explored the use of written online blogs as a medium for th…
Examining the Roles and Consequent Decision-Making Processes of High-Level Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Research into sports coaches has identified the valuable role they play concerning social support provided to athletes together with their contribution to social and cultural interactions within both the participation and performance domains. The purpose of the present study was to qualitatively extract and examine the knowledge and on-task cognitions of high-level coaches (HLCs) within strength and conditioning (S and C). Applied cognitive task …
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching
Sport coaching researchers have stressed the need for reflection in practitioners whilst the increased growth and impact of online applications has offered new ways to pursue this important goal. Recently, Stoszkowski, Hodgkinson and Collins (2021) showed that Flipgrid, an online communication tool that enables short video-based interactions, was a useful tool for facilitating and promoting analytical interaction between student-coaches on a bach…
The Role of Siblings in Talent Development
Developing talent requires consideration of social networks that can facilitate or inhibit progression. Of fundamental influence in this regard is the family, with recent investigation extending its focus from parents to the role of siblings. As such, the purpose of thisConceptual Analysisarticle is to, firstly, review the characteristics of the sibling relationship that may support or inhibit talent development. Secondly, the analysis then provi…
Habitats of three groups of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in western Tanzania compared
Integrated Curriculum Models and their Effects on Teachers' Pedagogy Practices
There is increasing interest in how philosophy or overarching aims are articulated through the various planning stages to eventual teaching methodology. Accordingly, this paper analyses the interrelationship between teaching, learning and assessment through tracking the decision-making chain from teachers' intentions to the assessment of student outcomes. The context employs an integrated curriculum model, which attempts to link improving perform…
Communities of practice, social learning and networks
Large-scale coach education programmes have been developed in many countries, and are presented as playing a key role in the development of coaches and the promotion of high standards. Unfortunately, however, coaches often perceive that the current system of formal coach education fails to meet their needs. Perhaps as a result, the majority of their development is personally perceived to take place via informal and non-formal means. Appropriately…
Three Worlds
The twin challenges of inactivity and the 2012 Olympics have tightened the focus in UK sport promotion. However, the twin track approach which treats these challenges as distinct concerns may limit the efficacy of interventions in either area. We propose that a continuum between participation, performance sport and elite achievement represents the most efficacious and logical focus for practitioners and researchers alike. We explore the genesis o…
The effects of an integrated curriculum model on student learning and attainment
In an earlier article, we considered the pedagogy and assessment practices enacted by physical education (PE) teachers when attempting to translate a centrally prescribed rationale into meaningful performance-led teaching within an integrated curriculum - Higher Still Physical Education (HSPE) in Scotland. Through further research this article analyses the consequences of teachers’ curriculum decision-making on students’ learning and assessment e…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport
In recent years, high-performance sport has seen a rising interest in Psychological Safety, a construct with a strong empirical basis in certain business contexts. As research and practice interest grows in PS, there are early indications of practitioners and, to a lesser extent research, treating the construct as being universally transferable. We offer three central concerns with this situation. Firstly, it seems that a variety of different int…
Building a physically active and talent rich culture
Physical education and sport are often critically evaluated for the potential impact they can have on the development of children, both from the perspective of health and the development of sporting talent. Reflecting these two important goals, this paper presents an evaluation of the efficacy of an evidence-based, educational and inclusive approach to the promotion of lifelong physical activity and development of talent in children. A two-year p…
Examining the Roles and Consequent Decision-Making Processes of High-Level Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Research into sports coaches has identified the valuable role they play concerning social support provided to athletes together with their contribution to social and cultural interactions within both the participation and performance domains. The purpose of the present study was to qualitatively extract and examine the knowledge and on-task cognitions of high-level coaches (HLCs) within strength and conditioning (S and C). Applied cognitive task …
Using shared online blogs to structure and support informal coach learning—part 1
Coaches' apparent preferences for informal and self-directed modes of learning have been highlighted in the literature. Consequently, there is a need for innovative coach education approaches that complement these clearly preferred, informal routes and better provide coaches with the professional skills they need to deal with the complex nature of their work. Online blogs are one such tool said to have the potential to strengthen and promote crit…
Blaming Bill Gates Again! Misuse, overuse and misunderstanding of performance data in sport
Recently in Sport, Education and Society, Williams and Manley (2014) argued against the heavy reliance on technology in professional Rugby Union and elite sport in general. In summary, technology is presented as an elitist, ?gold standard? villain that management and coaches use to exert control and by which players lose autonomy, identity, motivation, social interactions and expertise. In this article we suggest that the sociological interpretat…
Everybody wants to coach it, but fewer know how to do it
Background/objectivesIn recent years, the role of psychological training in youth sports has received increasing attention in both research and practice. The development of mental skills is important for sporting excellence, as it improves performance and helps athletes grow in their personality. This study aimed to explore the views of a wide range of stakeholders in youth sports on current practices, challenges, and opportunities related to men…
Bouncing back
IntroductionAlthough substantial research indicates that challenge plays a big role in the development of talent, little is known of the experiences of young performers as they negotiate and learn from these challenges.MethodsAs such, to better understand the nature and impact of challenge on the Talent Development (TD) pathway, we longitudinally tracked nine young footballers from progressive age-bands (five aged 11 years and four aged 14) as th…
The 3Ps
There is growing recognition of the value of "in situ" coach development practice across a variety sporting contexts. Unfortunately, however, there remains a limited number of tools available with which to observe coaching practice. In this study, we pilot and test a quasi-systematic tool for observation in the form of the 3Ps. Drawing on a range of representational perspectives, the theoretically neutral labels of "procedure", "planning", and "p…
Blank canvas or under construction? Examining the pre-academy experiences of young developing professional team sports athletes
IntroductionExtensive research has been carried out on Talent Development (TD) environments and an increasing amount of work shows the development of psychological characteristics as an important formal part of the academy experience. Importantly, however, very little attention has been paid to what types of skills, if any, young players arrive with. In other words, there seems to be an assumption that young athletes arrive at the academy as a bl…
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching
Sport coaching researchers have stressed the need for reflection in practitioners whilst the increased growth and impact of online applications has offered new ways to pursue this important goal. Recently, Stoszkowski, Hodgkinson and Collins (2021) showed that Flipgrid, an online communication tool that enables short video-based interactions, was a useful tool for facilitating and promoting analytical interaction between student-coaches on a bach…
The Role of Siblings in Talent Development
Developing talent requires consideration of social networks that can facilitate or inhibit progression. Of fundamental influence in this regard is the family, with recent investigation extending its focus from parents to the role of siblings. As such, the purpose of thisConceptual Analysisarticle is to, firstly, review the characteristics of the sibling relationship that may support or inhibit talent development. Secondly, the analysis then provi…
Infanticide in chimpanzees
OBJECTIVES: We present a study of skeletal damage to four chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) infanticide victims from Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Skeletal analysis may provide insight into the adaptive significance of infanticide by examining whether nutritional benefits sufficiently explain infanticidal behavior. The nutritional hypothesis would be supported if bone survivorship rates and skeletal damage patterns are comparable to those of monkey p…
Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) choice of prey among termites (macrotermitinae) in western Tanzania
Tool use by wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) to obtain termites ( Macrotermes herus ) in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
Wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) used probes made of vegetation to fish for termites ( Macrotermes herus ) in the Mahale Mountains of western Tanzania. Data on both the artefacts and behavior associated with their use were recorded over a 5‐month period. The chimpanzees of one unit group, B Group, were seen four times to use the tools to extract the insects from their mounds. A sample of 290 tools was collected and analyzed in terms of age, s…
Termite fauna related to differences in tool-use between groups of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Habitats of three groups of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in western Tanzania compared
Integrated Curriculum Models and their Effects on Teachers' Pedagogy Practices
There is increasing interest in how philosophy or overarching aims are articulated through the various planning stages to eventual teaching methodology. Accordingly, this paper analyses the interrelationship between teaching, learning and assessment through tracking the decision-making chain from teachers' intentions to the assessment of student outcomes. The context employs an integrated curriculum model, which attempts to link improving perform…
The effects of an integrated curriculum model on student learning and attainment
In an earlier article, we considered the pedagogy and assessment practices enacted by physical education (PE) teachers when attempting to translate a centrally prescribed rationale into meaningful performance-led teaching within an integrated curriculum - Higher Still Physical Education (HSPE) in Scotland. Through further research this article analyses the consequences of teachers’ curriculum decision-making on students’ learning and assessment e…
Human impacts, disease risk, and population dynamics in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Building a physically active and talent rich culture
Physical education and sport are often critically evaluated for the potential impact they can have on the development of children, both from the perspective of health and the development of sporting talent. Reflecting these two important goals, this paper presents an evaluation of the efficacy of an evidence-based, educational and inclusive approach to the promotion of lifelong physical activity and development of talent in children. A two-year p…
Three Worlds
The twin challenges of inactivity and the 2012 Olympics have tightened the focus in UK sport promotion. However, the twin track approach which treats these challenges as distinct concerns may limit the efficacy of interventions in either area. We propose that a continuum between participation, performance sport and elite achievement represents the most efficacious and logical focus for practitioners and researchers alike. We explore the genesis o…
Communities of practice, social learning and networks
Large-scale coach education programmes have been developed in many countries, and are presented as playing a key role in the development of coaches and the promotion of high standards. Unfortunately, however, coaches often perceive that the current system of formal coach education fails to meet their needs. Perhaps as a result, the majority of their development is personally perceived to take place via informal and non-formal means. Appropriately…
Using shared online blogs to structure and support informal coach learning. Part 2
In part one of this paper, Stoszkowski and Collins showed that shared online blogs were a useful tool to structure and support the informal learning of a cohort of final year undergraduate sports coaching students. The aim of the present study was to offer insight into student coaches' perceptions of their use and experiences of structured group blogging for reflection and learning. Twenty-three student coaches (5 females, 18 males), purposely sa…
Using shared online blogs to structure and support informal coach learning—part 1
Coaches' apparent preferences for informal and self-directed modes of learning have been highlighted in the literature. Consequently, there is a need for innovative coach education approaches that complement these clearly preferred, informal routes and better provide coaches with the professional skills they need to deal with the complex nature of their work. Online blogs are one such tool said to have the potential to strengthen and promote crit…
Blaming Bill Gates Again! Misuse, overuse and misunderstanding of performance data in sport
Recently in Sport, Education and Society, Williams and Manley (2014) argued against the heavy reliance on technology in professional Rugby Union and elite sport in general. In summary, technology is presented as an elitist, ?gold standard? villain that management and coaches use to exert control and by which players lose autonomy, identity, motivation, social interactions and expertise. In this article we suggest that the sociological interpretat…
A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilful Sailor
This chapter offers some evidence and practice-based guidelines on how psychologists, coaches, administrators and parents can work together to provide an optimal and integrated experience. The in-vogue approaches are grouped into three broad groups: life experience, attitude and skills. The life experience stance sees high achievement as due to the perhaps serendipitous experiences, or perhaps more accurately, misfortunes, experienced by the deve…
Socioecological correlates of clinical signs in two communities of wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Disease and other health hazards pose serious threats to the persistence of wild ape populations. The total chimpanzee population at Gombe National Park, Tanzania, has declined from an estimated 120 to 150 individuals in the 1960's to around 100 individuals by the end of 2013, with death associated with observable signs of disease as the leading cause of mortality. In 2004, we began a non-invasive health-monitoring program in the two habituated c…
Infanticide in chimpanzees
OBJECTIVES: We present a study of skeletal damage to four chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) infanticide victims from Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Skeletal analysis may provide insight into the adaptive significance of infanticide by examining whether nutritional benefits sufficiently explain infanticidal behavior. The nutritional hypothesis would be supported if bone survivorship rates and skeletal damage patterns are comparable to those of monkey p…
Adaptive expertise – a characteristic of expertise in outdoor instructors
Background: Over the past 10 years, research has started to investigate the pedagogic practices of instructors and coaches working in adventure sports settings. Outdoor instructors face particular challenges regarding the impact the dynamic environment has on the coaching process and their students. This challenging combination of factors obliges the instructor to be agile in response. We propose that this adaptive expertise is characteristic of …
A mixed-mode examination of the teaching of lead climbing by adventure sports coaches in the UK
Background: We present a unique study of adventure sports coaches teaching lead climbing. Expanding existing work on judgement and decision making, we examine the coaching process and the decision making employed to manage the pedagogical and security needs of climbers when they are being introduced to lead climbing.Research design and data collection: As part of a mixed approach, an Applied Cognitive Task Analysis was initially conducted on a sm…
Using Flipgrid to improve reflection
Background: Coaching researchers have stressed the need for critical reflection in practitioners, as an important tool to facilitate development. In parallel, however, coaches’ preference for more informal development methods are well documented. The increased impact of social media and other online applications offers new ways to pursue these important factors, and previous research has explored the use of written online blogs as a medium for th…
Examining the Roles and Consequent Decision-Making Processes of High-Level Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Research into sports coaches has identified the valuable role they play concerning social support provided to athletes together with their contribution to social and cultural interactions within both the participation and performance domains. The purpose of the present study was to qualitatively extract and examine the knowledge and on-task cognitions of high-level coaches (HLCs) within strength and conditioning (S and C). Applied cognitive task …
A realist evaluation of the use of Flipgrid to facilitate collaborative online learning and reflection in sport coaching
Sport coaching researchers have stressed the need for reflection in practitioners whilst the increased growth and impact of online applications has offered new ways to pursue this important goal. Recently, Stoszkowski, Hodgkinson and Collins (2021) showed that Flipgrid, an online communication tool that enables short video-based interactions, was a useful tool for facilitating and promoting analytical interaction between student-coaches on a bach…
The Role of Siblings in Talent Development
Developing talent requires consideration of social networks that can facilitate or inhibit progression. Of fundamental influence in this regard is the family, with recent investigation extending its focus from parents to the role of siblings. As such, the purpose of thisConceptual Analysisarticle is to, firstly, review the characteristics of the sibling relationship that may support or inhibit talent development. Secondly, the analysis then provi…
Golden Section Proportionality in the Music of dZihan and Kamien
Academic studies of the golden section are evidenced across a range of disciplines. In music the discourse has been dominated by analytical studies from the realm of classical music but much less with relation to popular music. In order to explore this absence an in-depth case study was undertaken into the golden section within EDM through an analysis of the musical output of the European duo, dZihan & Kamien. The authors employed time-based rath…
The Gombe Ecosystem Health Project
Infectious disease outbreaks pose a significant threat to the conservation of chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) and all threatened nonhuman primates. Characterizing and mitigating these threats to support the sustainability and welfare of wild populations is of the highest priority. In an attempt to understand and mitigate the risk of disease for the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, we initiated a long‐term health‐monitoring program in…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport
In recent years, high-performance sport has seen a rising interest in Psychological Safety, a construct with a strong empirical basis in certain business contexts. As research and practice interest grows in PS, there are early indications of practitioners and, to a lesser extent research, treating the construct as being universally transferable. We offer three central concerns with this situation. Firstly, it seems that a variety of different int…
Psychology (29 obras) · Sport Psychology and Performance (22 obras) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (16 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras) · Applied Psychology (14 obras) · Coaching (14 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (10 obras) · Applied Psychology (8 obras)