Dr Andrew Higham PhD, MSc, PGCE, FHEA
Associate Lecturer in Sport Psychology
- School of Sport and Physical Activity
- Sport and Physical Activity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre
- Health Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Summary
Andrew is an Associate Lecturer in Sport Psychology. His primary research interests focus on well-being, mental health and morality in professional sporting contexts. He is also interested in creative qualitative research approaches, such as photo-elicitation, video docuseries analysis, and longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis. Andrew teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate sports science and sports psychology modules.
About
I completed an MSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Psychology in 2019 at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ where I was awarded the Centre for Sport and Exercise Science: Postgraduate Sport and Exercise Psychology Prize for 'Outstanding Academic Achievement'. Afterwards, I was awarded a PhD scholarship at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ which I completed with no corrections in 2024 entitled, "An Exploration of Professional Coaches’ Well-being Experiences Within Football Club Contexts".
Throughout my PhD scholarship, I actively published my work and attended various national and international research conferences to disseminate my work on professional football coaches' well-being. Personal highlights were attending the International Council for Coaching Excellence's (ICCE) Global Coach Conference in Singapore (2023) and the European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology's (FEPSAC) Congress in Innsbruck, Austria (2024). This has since resulted in me being invited onto academic podcasts, writing for media outlets (The Conversation), and delivering educational workshops for professional sporting organisations/clubs. Following my PhD related activities, I was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Sport Psychology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ where I teach across various undergraduate and postgraduate sports science modules. I currently supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students who are interested in the field of sport psychology, specifically those who are researching sport personnel's lived experiences of well-being and ill-being.
Teaching
School of Sport and Physical Activity
College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences
Courses taught:
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
MSc Sport and Exercise Psychology
MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Science
Modules:
Scientific Principles for Sport
Psychology of Learning, Wellbeing and Sport Performance
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Methods in Sport and Physical Activity
Advanced Assessment and Evaluation in Sport and Exercise Science
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- Sport and Physical Activity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre
- Health Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Publications
Journal articles
Higham, A., Newman, J., Rumbold, J., & Stone, J. (2024). . Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1-26.
(2023). International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) 14th Global Coach Conference. International Sport Coaching Journal, 10 (S1), S1-S40.
Newman, J., Lickess, A., & Higham, A. (2023). . Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
Higham, A., Newman, J., Rumbold, J., & Stone, J. (2023). . Qualitative Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Higham, A., Rumbold, J., Newman, J., & Stone, J. (2023). . Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 69.
Higham, A., Newman, J., Stone, J., & Rumbold, J. (2021). . International Sport Coaching Journal.
Conference papers
Newman, J., Higham, A., & Lickess, A. (2024). . In FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024, Innsbruck, 15 July 2024 - 17 July 2024.
Higham, A., Newman, J., Rumbold, J., & Stone, J. (2024). . In FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024, Innsbruck, (pp. 779-780). FEPSAC:
Theses / Dissertations
Higham, A. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Stone, J., Rumbold, J., & Newman, J.
Postgraduate supervision
Current PhD students:
Oliver Rogerson: AI-based ill-being detection systems for sport coaching