Bettina Callary
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Callary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Callary |
| SIGNATURE | CALLARY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cape Breton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7470-3487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Opening doors to coach education in masters sport for lifelong sport participation
Coach education directors of sport organizations are responsible for developing coaches to support quality sport participation. While adults comprise an increasingly larger cohort in many sport organizations, their programming, including coaching and coach education, is marginalized. The purpose of this collective case study was to outline directors’ perceptions of challenges and interests regarding lifelong sport participation through their pers…
The Home of Women’s Hockey
Developing Elite Strength and Conditioning Coaches’ Practice Through Facilitated Reflection
Recent research has suggested that strength and conditioning (S&C) coach development should consider constructivist learning theories to promote coach development and learning of psychosocial coaching competencies. Reflective practice can encourage holistic learning through promoting an internal dialogue of the meaningfulness of an individual’s experiences. Our study aimed to examine the efficacy of a facilitated, guided, and longitudinal reflect…
It’s not really about the surf”
The Unama’ki Surf Programme is run by the First Nation Mi’kmaq Physical Activity Leaders (MPALs), in conjunction with the Surfing Association of Nova Scotia on the shores of Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island) in the territory known by its colonial name of Canada. This participatory action research project re-launched a programme shut down by COVID and explored Mi’kmaq ways of knowing about place-based cultural sport participation from the perspectives…
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education
Psychosocial coaching competencies, including psychological, pedagogical, philosophical, and sociocultural aspects, which underpin an athlete-centred coaching approach, have been largely overlooked by the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) coach education.It is possible to understand why psychosocial competencies have been disregarded by critiquing how stakeholders' perceptions, such as board members, tutors, assessors, …
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies
Co-produced research can engage academics with non-academic partners to improve policy and practices in everyday life. Accordingly, we collaborated with the United Kingdom’s Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) stakeholders. As an ongoing participatory action research (PAR), in phase one we explored the lack of psychosocial competencies in the UKSCA’s predominantly positivist and bioscientific coach education curriculum and their suggest…
Storying surfing coaches’ experiences of life skills development
In the present manuscript we explore three Portuguese surfing coaches' understandings and experiences of their roles and responsibilities concerning life skills development across youth, high-performance and master sport contexts. To achieve this aim, coaches and researchers forged a meaningful partnership over a two-year period, sharing experiences in an open and sincere manner, as well as embracing diversity of thought while rethinking life ski…
Developing a ‘letter to my younger self’ to learn from the experiences of expert coaches
This study is focused on how novice sport science practitioners can learn from the hindsight of more experienced practitioners, and how such information can be effectively disseminated. Initially, 13 expert, elite-level, strength and conditioning coaches wrote a reflective letter to their ‘younger selves’ offering advice in terms of things they had learnt throughout their coaching career. Thematically analysed, five themes were generated: willing…
Glitter and Guts
This qualitative investigation explored the lived meaningful experiences of adult women in a coached Masters synchronized ice-skating team and the role of the coach in these experiences. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 11 team members (mean age = 39) and their 32 year-old female coach, over multiple time points in their season. Observational field notes were taken during training, competition, and social engagements. Story…
Making Sense of Coach Development Worldwide During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The commentary brings together the perspectives of a group of coach developers from across the globe who form a community of practice (CoP) from their involvement as “Cohort 5” in the International Council for Coaching Excellence and Nippon Sport Science University Coach Developer Academy. The CoP includes people from three types of organizations: university professors of sport coaching programs, national sport federations, and national multispor…
Masters Swimmers’ Experiences With Coaches
Much work addresses coaches’ contributions to younger athletes; however, the psycho-social coaching needs of adult Masters athletes remain unexamined. This study explored the lived experiences of 10 Masters swimmers (5 male, 5 female; age range = 45-65 years) through interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis delved into benefits that swimmers wanted to derive from coaches, how they wished to be coached, and what they liked about coache…
Coaches’ Adoption and Implementation of Sport Canada’s Long-Term Athlete Development Model
This work explores the adoption and implementation of Sport Canada’s long-term athlete development (LTAD) model by coaches and tries to understand the barriers to and enablers of these processes. LTAD adoption was studied in 14 coaches (5 female, 9 male) in seven sports while implementation was assessed among 10 different coaches (2 female, 8 male) from nine sports. Semistructured interviews ascertained coaches’ perceptions of and experiences wit…
Insights on the Process of Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis in a Sport Coaching Research Project
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research methodology used to understand participants’ subjective realities through personal interpretations of their lived experiences and the meanings they attach to these experiences (Smith, 2011). IPA has been used predominantly in health psychology, with rising interest within the field of sport psychology and coaching. This article seeks to describe insights about the processes …
Three Ethical Issues in Narrative Research of Women Coaches’ Lifelong Learning
It is important to reflect upon ethical issues in conducting narrative research beyond what may be considered in Research Ethics Board applications. Ethical issues were identified in a dissertation study that utilized a narrative research approach to explore the process of lifelong learning for five women coaches. Using journal reflections and participant and researcher conversations, three ethical issues are discussed. These issues arose during …
Exploring coaching actions based on developed values
There are few empirical studies that demonstrate how values are developed and how they are linked to coaching actions. There can be a discrepancy between the statement of coaches’ values and their actual coaching actions. In order to examine how coaching actions are influenced by values that are developed over a lifetime, the purpose of this article is to first describe a female hockey coach’s approach to coaching using five key coaching actions,…
How meaningful episodic experiences influence the process of becoming an experienced coach
The research on coach learning and development deals with the classification of the sources from which coaches learn, and more recently, with the identification of learning being an idiosyncratic process in which there are variations in coaches’ learning paths. From a constructivist view, learning may be seen as a process of becoming: a person engages in social situations throughout life that are transformed cognitively, emotively and/or practica…
Insights on the Process of Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis in a Sport Coaching Research Project
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research methodology used to understand participants’ subjective realities through personal interpretations of their lived experiences and the meanings they attach to these experiences (Smith, 2011). IPA has been used predominantly in health psychology, with rising interest within the field of sport psychology and coaching. This article seeks to describe insights about the processes …
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education
Psychosocial coaching competencies, including psychological, pedagogical, philosophical, and sociocultural aspects, which underpin an athlete-centred coaching approach, have been largely overlooked by the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) coach education.It is possible to understand why psychosocial competencies have been disregarded by critiquing how stakeholders' perceptions, such as board members, tutors, assessors, …
Storying surfing coaches’ experiences of life skills development
In the present manuscript we explore three Portuguese surfing coaches' understandings and experiences of their roles and responsibilities concerning life skills development across youth, high-performance and master sport contexts. To achieve this aim, coaches and researchers forged a meaningful partnership over a two-year period, sharing experiences in an open and sincere manner, as well as embracing diversity of thought while rethinking life ski…
Glitter and Guts
This qualitative investigation explored the lived meaningful experiences of adult women in a coached Masters synchronized ice-skating team and the role of the coach in these experiences. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 11 team members (mean age = 39) and their 32 year-old female coach, over multiple time points in their season. Observational field notes were taken during training, competition, and social engagements. Story…
Three Ethical Issues in Narrative Research of Women Coaches’ Lifelong Learning
It is important to reflect upon ethical issues in conducting narrative research beyond what may be considered in Research Ethics Board applications. Ethical issues were identified in a dissertation study that utilized a narrative research approach to explore the process of lifelong learning for five women coaches. Using journal reflections and participant and researcher conversations, three ethical issues are discussed. These issues arose during …
How meaningful episodic experiences influence the process of becoming an experienced coach
The research on coach learning and development deals with the classification of the sources from which coaches learn, and more recently, with the identification of learning being an idiosyncratic process in which there are variations in coaches’ learning paths. From a constructivist view, learning may be seen as a process of becoming: a person engages in social situations throughout life that are transformed cognitively, emotively and/or practica…
Exploring coaching actions based on developed values
There are few empirical studies that demonstrate how values are developed and how they are linked to coaching actions. There can be a discrepancy between the statement of coaches’ values and their actual coaching actions. In order to examine how coaching actions are influenced by values that are developed over a lifetime, the purpose of this article is to first describe a female hockey coach’s approach to coaching using five key coaching actions,…
Masters Swimmers’ Experiences With Coaches
Much work addresses coaches’ contributions to younger athletes; however, the psycho-social coaching needs of adult Masters athletes remain unexamined. This study explored the lived experiences of 10 Masters swimmers (5 male, 5 female; age range = 45-65 years) through interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis delved into benefits that swimmers wanted to derive from coaches, how they wished to be coached, and what they liked about coache…
Coaches’ Adoption and Implementation of Sport Canada’s Long-Term Athlete Development Model
This work explores the adoption and implementation of Sport Canada’s long-term athlete development (LTAD) model by coaches and tries to understand the barriers to and enablers of these processes. LTAD adoption was studied in 14 coaches (5 female, 9 male) in seven sports while implementation was assessed among 10 different coaches (2 female, 8 male) from nine sports. Semistructured interviews ascertained coaches’ perceptions of and experiences wit…
Insights on the Process of Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis in a Sport Coaching Research Project
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research methodology used to understand participants’ subjective realities through personal interpretations of their lived experiences and the meanings they attach to these experiences (Smith, 2011). IPA has been used predominantly in health psychology, with rising interest within the field of sport psychology and coaching. This article seeks to describe insights about the processes …
Three Ethical Issues in Narrative Research of Women Coaches’ Lifelong Learning
It is important to reflect upon ethical issues in conducting narrative research beyond what may be considered in Research Ethics Board applications. Ethical issues were identified in a dissertation study that utilized a narrative research approach to explore the process of lifelong learning for five women coaches. Using journal reflections and participant and researcher conversations, three ethical issues are discussed. These issues arose during …
Making Sense of Coach Development Worldwide During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The commentary brings together the perspectives of a group of coach developers from across the globe who form a community of practice (CoP) from their involvement as “Cohort 5” in the International Council for Coaching Excellence and Nippon Sport Science University Coach Developer Academy. The CoP includes people from three types of organizations: university professors of sport coaching programs, national sport federations, and national multispor…
Developing a ‘letter to my younger self’ to learn from the experiences of expert coaches
This study is focused on how novice sport science practitioners can learn from the hindsight of more experienced practitioners, and how such information can be effectively disseminated. Initially, 13 expert, elite-level, strength and conditioning coaches wrote a reflective letter to their ‘younger selves’ offering advice in terms of things they had learnt throughout their coaching career. Thematically analysed, five themes were generated: willing…
Glitter and Guts
This qualitative investigation explored the lived meaningful experiences of adult women in a coached Masters synchronized ice-skating team and the role of the coach in these experiences. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 11 team members (mean age = 39) and their 32 year-old female coach, over multiple time points in their season. Observational field notes were taken during training, competition, and social engagements. Story…
Planning for the development of strength and conditioning coaches’ psychosocial competencies
Co-produced research can engage academics with non-academic partners to improve policy and practices in everyday life. Accordingly, we collaborated with the United Kingdom’s Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) stakeholders. As an ongoing participatory action research (PAR), in phase one we explored the lack of psychosocial competencies in the UKSCA’s predominantly positivist and bioscientific coach education curriculum and their suggest…
Storying surfing coaches’ experiences of life skills development
In the present manuscript we explore three Portuguese surfing coaches' understandings and experiences of their roles and responsibilities concerning life skills development across youth, high-performance and master sport contexts. To achieve this aim, coaches and researchers forged a meaningful partnership over a two-year period, sharing experiences in an open and sincere manner, as well as embracing diversity of thought while rethinking life ski…
Developing Elite Strength and Conditioning Coaches’ Practice Through Facilitated Reflection
Recent research has suggested that strength and conditioning (S&C) coach development should consider constructivist learning theories to promote coach development and learning of psychosocial coaching competencies. Reflective practice can encourage holistic learning through promoting an internal dialogue of the meaningfulness of an individual’s experiences. Our study aimed to examine the efficacy of a facilitated, guided, and longitudinal reflect…
It’s not really about the surf”
The Unama’ki Surf Programme is run by the First Nation Mi’kmaq Physical Activity Leaders (MPALs), in conjunction with the Surfing Association of Nova Scotia on the shores of Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island) in the territory known by its colonial name of Canada. This participatory action research project re-launched a programme shut down by COVID and explored Mi’kmaq ways of knowing about place-based cultural sport participation from the perspectives…
An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education
Psychosocial coaching competencies, including psychological, pedagogical, philosophical, and sociocultural aspects, which underpin an athlete-centred coaching approach, have been largely overlooked by the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) coach education.It is possible to understand why psychosocial competencies have been disregarded by critiquing how stakeholders' perceptions, such as board members, tutors, assessors, …
Opening doors to coach education in masters sport for lifelong sport participation
Coach education directors of sport organizations are responsible for developing coaches to support quality sport participation. While adults comprise an increasingly larger cohort in many sport organizations, their programming, including coaching and coach education, is marginalized. The purpose of this collective case study was to outline directors’ perceptions of challenges and interests regarding lifelong sport participation through their pers…
The Home of Women’s Hockey
Psychology (15 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (10 works) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (9 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Coaching (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)