Applied Coaching Research Journal Research Journal Volume 2 | Page 2
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Welcome
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the second edition
of the Applied Coaching Research Journal, Transforming
Lives Through Coaching. The first edition was successfully
launched by our patron, HRH Princess Anne at the UK
Coaching Research Conference in Manchester in
February 2018.
The journal is aimed at anyone interested in coaching
research; coaches and coach developers, policy makers and
system managers, students and academics. It attempts to
provide ideas, inspiration, advice and solutions, with the
intention that it will promote the best of coaching research
and transfer knowledge to practitioners.
The articles in this edition have sound research
methodologies and evidence with storytelling techniques.
We are sure that you’ll find them aspirational and in some
cases suggest solutions and a call to action.
Our aim as an editorial team is to build on the successes
of the first edition by ensuring that this edition has
variety and maintains the high quality of submissions to
keep you informed, stimulated and engaged. Furthermore,
the intention is to raise awareness and provoke thought
and discussion around potential future research
questions and topics. We hope that the journal will be
used to either develop or substantiate good practice,
or build on and improve existing coach education and
development endeavours.
If you would like to help shape the future of coaching,
please join us at our next research conference on 19
February 2019, at Pride Park Stadium, home of Derby
County FC. Our focus at the conference will be on coach
experience and well-being, as well as innovation and
learning. Further details can be found at the end of this
journal. We hope to see you there!
If you have any feedback about this journal, please contact
the research team at [email protected], or for
further information about UK Coaching, please check out
our new website: www.ukcoaching.org
On behalf of the editorial team,
Dr Wayne Allison,
League Managers Association and UK Coaching Board
Member