I am a Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences of the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane, Australia. I studied Movement Sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam before completing my PhD in Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. I moved to Edinburgh University in 1999 to work as a research fellow on the prospective guidance of movement. After this I took up a post as lecturer in Applied Sport Sciences at the Moray House School of Education of Edinburgh University, UK. Before taking up my current post I was Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human Movement Sciences at The University Medical Centre Groningen and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
This study aimed to examine the influence of families and football academies on the pathway to fo... more This study aimed to examine the influence of families and football academies on the pathway to football expertise of Brazilian players. Built on the ‘contextualised skill acquisition research’ framework, data were generated through the triangulation of three methods: contextual analysis; participant-observation, and; interviews, with the latter providing substantial information for the present study. Data were organised according to the mesosystemic context of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development, thematically analysed, and explained through the perspective of the framework of the ecological dynamics. The findings highlight how players navigate through their environment in relation to the social, emotional, psychological, and educational support they receive, as well as in relation to the clubs' supply of quality football training programmes. The findings provide the basis for practical recommendations to help clubs and their coaches in the task of developin...
This study aimed to examine the influence of families and football academies on the pathway to fo... more This study aimed to examine the influence of families and football academies on the pathway to football expertise of Brazilian players. Built on the ‘contextualised skill acquisition research’ framework, data were generated through the triangulation of three methods: contextual analysis; participant-observation, and; interviews, with the latter providing substantial information for the present study. Data were organised according to the mesosystemic context of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development, thematically analysed, and explained through the perspective of the framework of the ecological dynamics. The findings highlight how players navigate through their environment in relation to the social, emotional, psychological, and educational support they receive, as well as in relation to the clubs' supply of quality football training programmes. The findings provide the basis for practical recommendations to help clubs and their coaches in the task of developin...
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