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APPLIED COACHING RESEARCH JOURNAL 2018, Vol. 2
WHAT ARE
THE AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES
OF THE CRIC?
The CRiC was established in late
2012 in order to encourage, enable
and disseminate research into sports
coaching among academics, practitioners
and policy agencies.
Our key objectives are to:
• generate a broad community of
researchers interested in sports
coaching
• encourage novel and, where
appropriate, critical approaches to
sports coaching research
WHO IS PART
OF THE CRIC
AND WHAT
RESEARCH
TOPICS ARE A
PARTICULAR
FOCUS? There are five core members of the CRiC
(see below) and the current overarching
research areas of the group cover:
TEAM
MEMBERS Dr Bill Taylor
• engage with, and support, coaching
practitioners, coaching associations
and policy agencies from all sports
and related activities
• provide opportunities and
encouragement to early career and
postgraduate researchers in the field
of sports coaching
• publish high-quality research and
publications that are impactful and
accessible to a variety of audiences.
• professionalism and politics
• elite coach education and mentoring
• the coach as a community practitioner.
Dr Bill Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in
Sports Coaching at MMU. His research
interests are varied and include:
the conceptualisation and critical
deconstruction of professionalism in
sports coaching; the professional learning
of coaching practitioners; coaching in
the ‘risk society’ and the growth of
defences practices; and the use of critical
sociology to examine coaching practice
and coach education. His sporting
links include UK Coaching, the English
Football Association, England Hockey,
British Canoeing, British Judo, Sports
Council, English Institute of Sport and
Sport England. Bill was a co-editor of
Moral Panic in Physical Education and
Coaching. His most recent work explores
elite hockey players’ experiences of
video-based coaching and elite sports
coach mentoring programmes.
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