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APPLIED COACHING RESEARCH JOURNAL 2019, Vol. 3
Insights
Professor Ben Oakley
The Open University
The first edition of this journal was launched a
year ago, at the first UK Coaching Applied Coaching
Research Conference at the Museum of Science
and Industry in Manchester. UK Coaching has since
delivered a successful second conference at the
home of Derby County Football Club and is now
publishing the third edition of the journal.
It has been quite a journey and I’m honoured to be
part of the editorial team, bringing you some of the
latest coaching research from the UK and beyond.
We have seen the readership of the journal grow to
over 5,000 in just 12 months, which has exceeded
all our expectations.
In this special edition, we mark the one-year
anniversary of both the journal and the conference,
sharing the highlights from the conference and
featuring some of the key research studies that
were presented during the day.
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The key aims of this journal are to make coaching
research accessible to a wide audience, and to
present research in a clear and concise format. Each
article attempts to answer three core questions.
What is already known about the topic? How
was it investigated? What are the main findings
and implications for coaching practice? This ‘So
what?’ question can be difficult to answer due to
the complex nature of coaching. As coaching is so
context specific, what might apply in one coaching
scenario or environment, may not apply to another.
So, let’s apply the ‘So what?’ question to the articles
in this edition. First up is Dr Charlotte Woodcock
and colleagues’ enquiry into Empowering Coaching,
a coach education workshop based on decades of
research into motivational climate at Birmingham
University. This article will give you an insight into
how coaches who emphasise young people’s voice,
build a sense of belonging and pay attention to their