Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
I am a sports scientist with an interest in how skilled athletes develop expertise. I straddle academia and private industry and have a key interest in how we can make sports science more credible.
SkillACQ provides three pathways. In the Build pathway we offer online education in skill acquisition applied to sport, in the Refine pathway we provide small group mentoring and bespoke education for coaches and organisations who want to apply skill acquisition knowledge to their own practice. In the Optimise pathway we develop bespoke solutions to optimise athlete performance and learning in high performance sporting teams. You can find us at SkillACQ.com
www.storkinesiology.org
As Sportskey's Sport Science director I oversee: - The development and validation of Sportskey's assessments - Liaising with new clients - The provision of feedback to athletes, coaches, organisations and stakeholders - The development of Sportskey's Sport Science strategy
As a senior lecturer in motor control and skill acquisition, I am particularly interested in how expertise in human movement emerges as a result of individual and environmental factors. My work has investigated the importance of talent identification and development programs in youth sport, the importance of perceptual and cognitive skills and abilities in the development of sporting expertise, and the assessment and development of collective behaviour. I also teach across a wide range of subjects, including, motor control, motor learning, skill acquisition, ecological dynamics, talent and expertise, and am the Higher Degree Research Students coordinator, in which I help design and implement developmental opportunities for PhD and Masters students and their supervisors across the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation and the Faculty of Health. Key Accomplishments: * impactful research publications in international, peer-reviewed journals * Awarded UTS Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Teaching and Learning Award (2018) * Outstanding teaching feedback * attracted research funding from industry partners and competitive third party funding agencies Promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2018