Michael Ashford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3749641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ashford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashford |
| SIGNATURE | ASHFORD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7723-5153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Always ready to learn: Understanding the learning biographies of expert academy football coaches
For over three decades, sport coaching scholars have critiqued formal coach learning. Coaches are widely understood to place greater value on informal and non-formal learning. Despite this, coach education experiences have remained the focal point of investigation. Located in a wider research project investigating coaching expertise, this study examined the learning biographies of expert coaches working in Premier League category one academies. I…
Coaching player decision making in rugby union: Exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice
Introduction: Researchers exploring how coaches can best support the development of their players decision making within team invasion sports have often been conducted from a cognitive or ecological approach, which differ in their views regarding the presence and absence of memory representations. This difference has, in turn, resulted in practical implications that are theoretically different, but not pedagogically different. Research has catego…
Coaching adaptive skill and expertise in Premier League football academies—paving a way forward for research and practice
Within the domain of coach education researchers have long called for a paradigm shift, whereby the quality of coaching practice is no longer measured against a checklist of prescribed competencies. This desire to evolve coach education and development, has been aligned to the need to better identify, understand and utilise what adaptive skill and expertise looks, sounds and feels like across specific sport coaching contexts. This paper outlines …
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…
Contemporary pedagogy? The use of theory in practice: An evidence-informed perspective
Utilizing cognitive psychology as a foundation, this paper offers a deeper consideration of contemporary theoretical influences on coaching pedagogy. Countering recent dichotomies suggested between pedagogic approaches, we reintroduce key findings from the cognitive tradition and their implications for practice which coaches may find useful. Using cognitive load, novice and expert differences, desirable difficulty, and fidelity, we suggest that t…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport: Contextually Applicable
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…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport: Contextually Applicable
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…
Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport: Contextually Applicable
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…
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…
Contemporary pedagogy? The use of theory in practice: An evidence-informed perspective
Utilizing cognitive psychology as a foundation, this paper offers a deeper consideration of contemporary theoretical influences on coaching pedagogy. Countering recent dichotomies suggested between pedagogic approaches, we reintroduce key findings from the cognitive tradition and their implications for practice which coaches may find useful. Using cognitive load, novice and expert differences, desirable difficulty, and fidelity, we suggest that t…
Coaching adaptive skill and expertise in Premier League football academies—paving a way forward for research and practice
Within the domain of coach education researchers have long called for a paradigm shift, whereby the quality of coaching practice is no longer measured against a checklist of prescribed competencies. This desire to evolve coach education and development, has been aligned to the need to better identify, understand and utilise what adaptive skill and expertise looks, sounds and feels like across specific sport coaching contexts. This paper outlines …
Coaching player decision making in rugby union: Exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice
Introduction: Researchers exploring how coaches can best support the development of their players decision making within team invasion sports have often been conducted from a cognitive or ecological approach, which differ in their views regarding the presence and absence of memory representations. This difference has, in turn, resulted in practical implications that are theoretically different, but not pedagogically different. Research has catego…
Always ready to learn: Understanding the learning biographies of expert academy football coaches
For over three decades, sport coaching scholars have critiqued formal coach learning. Coaches are widely understood to place greater value on informal and non-formal learning. Despite this, coach education experiences have remained the focal point of investigation. Located in a wider research project investigating coaching expertise, this study examined the learning biographies of expert coaches working in Premier League category one academies. I…
Sport Psychology and Performance (6 works) · Coaching (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Athletes (2 works) · Construct (python library (2 works)