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APPLIED COACHING RESEARCH JOURNAL 2018, Vol. 2
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Dr Ryan Groom Petra Kolić
Dr Ryan Groom is a Senior Lecturer in
Sports Coaching and Programme Leader
for the MA/MSc Exercise and Sports
degrees at MMU. He is also a lead tutor
on the MA Coaching Studies degree. As
a practitioner, he has over 10 years’
experience working in elite football,
analysing team and individual player
performance. He has staffed 42 full
England international matches, over
100 English Premier League games, 30
UEFA Cup matches and two League Cup
finals. Ryan has worked on a number
of funded research grants in sports
coaching, including projects for Sport
England (Volunteering Insight), the
English Football Association (Quality
Assurance in Coach Education), Canoe
England (Workforce Audit), and the
English Institute of Sport (Performance
Analysis in Elite Sport). Ryan is co-editor
of Research Methods in Sports Coaching
and Learning in Sports Coaching. He has
published widely on learning, education,
mentoring, performance analysis and
organisational change in sports coaching. Petra Kolić is an early career researcher,
currently completing her PhD study
on the experiences of coaches, coach
educators and coach education managers
within elite coach education on the UKCC
Coach Level 4 award. For the purpose
of this project, she has collaborated
with UK Coaching, British Canoeing and
British Judo. Her passion for sport stems
from her career as a youth elite figure
skater and coach. In her research, she
aims to understand how stakeholders
(eg coach and athlete, coach and coach
educator) act and interact, how they
think and feel about these processes,
and why they do so in certain ways. She
draws on ethnography as a qualitative
methodology that allows her to conduct
longitudinal research in coaching
environments, and explore participant
perspectives from formal and informal
encounters that include observations,
interviews and naturally occurring
conversations.