Reflective Practice: a practice focused symposium for sport and exercise professionals

Wednesday 16 June

9.30 am - 4.00pm

Liverpool John Moores University

Practitioners, elite coaches; practitioner supervisors/educators from all sport and exercise disciplines.

New Workshop

This workshop is now fully booked. If you wish to go on reserve list please email mstankler@bases.org.uk

£100 (or £75 for BASES, ACPSM, BASEM & BPS members)

This workshop aims to give delegates the opportunity to critique contemporary developments in reflective practice that have emerged from both research and practice. Experts from a range of fields will facilitate discussion and ideas that can be used to inform delegates own reflective practice and/or the facilitation of others. Those wishing to incorporate reflective practice into educational curricula will find this workshop useful as practitioners reflect themselves on their own experience and challenges they have faced in this task.

There will be pportunities to direct questions to a cross discipline panel and discussion forums incorporated into schedule.               

 1.    To provide an multidisciplinary overview of current reflective practice research

2.    To provide examples of how to facilitate self and shared reflection

3.    To allow delegates to begin to explore how they may adapt practice and or curriculum to incorporate reflective practice

4.    To provide guidance on how to represent reflection using written and contemporary methods.

Brendan Cropley is a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (Psychology - Scientific Support) and  a lecturer in Sport Psychology and Coaching Science at Swansea University. He has recently completed a Ph.D. focusing on the examination of effective and reflective practice within applied sport psychology and has additional research interests in sports coach education and professional development.

Dr Hamish Telfer is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Practice at the University of Cumbria.  He specialises in sport pedagogy, practice ethics and reflective learning/practices.  He has been a GB National Coach and also works in the area of children in sport specifically in 'safeguarding' where he has led national workshops and contributed to the work of sports coach UK in producing coach education resource material and as a Senior/Mentor Tutor.  He has published in the area of Reflective Practice.'

Dr Lindsey Dugdill is a Reader in Physical Activity and Public Health, in the School of Health, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Salford. Lindsey sits on the editorial board of the journal - Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. She is currently researching how reflective practice becomes integrated into organisational ways of working.

Dr Zoe Knowles is a BASES accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (Psychology - Scientific Support) and a Senior Lecturer  in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Liverpool John Moores Univiersity. She has published many journal articles exploring reflective practice and was awarded the BASES emerging researcher medal (Education and Professional development) at the 2009 conference.

Prof David Gilbourne is 'Professor of Qualitative Research in Sport' at UWIC, and  'Visiting Professor' at the University of Copenhagen in 2010 working alongside the Body-Learning and Identity research group. He co-founded and co-edits 'Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise' and leads the first dedicated qualitative MRes in the field of sport and exercise. His research interests include auto-ethnography and story-telling through text and via performance media such as theatre and film.

Dr James Morton is a Lecturer in Exercise Metabolism at Liverpool John Moores University and specialises in providing nutritional and physiological support to professional boxers and soccer players. James has experience of using reflective practice to develop his practice in these areas and also in helping to develop his teaching practices and educational philosophy. In addition to this he implements reflective practice into the BSc Hons Sport Science curriculum to help physiology students develop their practitioner skills in a variety of sports.

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NCP car parks adjacent to CETL building, Dale Street and under Churchill way on approach to the building all within 2 minutes walk. Lime St train station 5 minutes walk. Report to reception desk in CETL building on arrival. Coffee shop in foyer open from 8.30am.