Over the years, Ken has produced over 300 research and professional papers and has been made a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, the UK Physical Education Association and an International Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education for his contributions to the field. In July 2008, he was the proud recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest academic institutions in Europe. He is married to Linda and has two grown up sons. He still tries to play 5-a-side football and enjoys cycling, and is seen occasionally playing drums with a modern but ageing jazz group. In August 2011 he took the title of Professor Emeritus to allow him to focus his energies on research and consultancy in physical activity and public health. He also has a part time appointment as Professor of Physical Activity and Ageing at the University of Birmingham.
Duarte Araujo currently works at the CIPER; BIOLAD; Department of Sport and Health, University of Lisbon. I'm interested in affordances and decision-making, development of expertise, performance analysis, and sport psychology. I follow an ecological dynamics approach to sport and physical activity behavior grounded in complex systems methods.
Chris is a Professor in Sport Psychology and the University Beacon lead for Sport and Exercise. He is also a Practitioner Sport Psychologist registered with the Health Care Professions Council and a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society.
His research interests and expertise lie in the psychosocial aspects of youth sport and athlete development with a particular focus on the socio-environmental influence of parents and coaches. He has particularly focused his applied research in the field of achievement motivation, sport parenting and through his work on the 5Cs approach (www.the5Cs.co.uk) to athlete development. As a scientist-practitioner, he is also noted for his work in professional practice and the study of factors related to the training and development of applied sport psychologists.
Chris teaches across a variety of modules in the School given his experience as a practitioner, but leads final year and postgraduate modules focused on applied sport psychology and professional practice. He has served as Chair of the Psychology Division for BASES since 2014 and is currently a Section Editor for the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology and editorial board member for The Sport Psychologist, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
As a practicing consultant in sport psychology, he has worked extensively with the Lawn Tennis Association, the Football Association, and several professional sporting bodies and clubs. For his contributions to applied sport psychology and sport science he has been awarded Fellowships of both AASP and BASES.
Rui Gomes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minho. He has research interests on human adaptation to stress, leadership and team performance, and training life skills and human performance. He leads the research group “Adaptation, Performance and Human Development”, which was created in 2007 (www.ardh.pt). He leads the community and business intervention project “School of Life Skills”. As a sport psychologist, he consults athletes and their families, coaches, and sport managers.