Experience

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  Department of sport and exercise science, aberystwyth university

  Sept 2006 - Jun 2011

  Graduate teaching assistant

  Lecturing, running seminars and practicals, marking students work, and all that jazz. Lots of experience of public speaking and managing large groups of people.

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  Aberystwyth university

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2011

  Doctoral researcher

  I won a prestigious University-wide scholarship to pursue my desired line of study.

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  Your excellence unlocked

  Aug 2013 - Oct 2022

  Owner; performance psychologist

  Helping individuals and teams achieve their optimal performance effectiveness and efficiency.I transform scientific evidence and real-world examples into practical tools that help the athlete and team harness their performance psychology!

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  Palmarès

  Oct 2013 - Oct 2022

  Associate performance psychologist
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  Rugby business network - swansea

  Mar 2014 - Jan 2016

  Committee member

  My colleagues and I are busy preparing to launch a Swansea branch of the global Rugby Business Network: "watch this space" for details of the opening party and ongoing networking and educational events.

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  Langland bay golf club

  May 2014 - Jan 2016

  Performance psychologist

  Reigning Welsh Golf Club of the Year.As part of the Langland Bay Golf Academy, I provide psychological coaching to team members and the wider membership.

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  Jcp solicitors swansea half marathon

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  Official performance psychologist & team member

  Please visit my endurance athlete blog! (yourexcellenceunlocked.com/blogs-and-external-content or www.swanseahalfmarathon.co.uk/psychology).I will be providing race day psychological support to runners in a drop-in clinic, and ongoing support in the build up to the 2015 version. I am also helping the organisers with publicity and other behind-the-scenes tasks. Ultimately, we all want this event to become a valued fixture on Swansea's annual sporting calendar, so we are forming as professional a team as possible to ensure that goal is realised. Show less

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  Creative rugby (www.creativerugby.co.uk)

  Jul 2014 - Jan 2016

  Official rugby psychology partner

  Creative Rugby is a massively influential coach and player development resource and community (www.creativerugby.co.uk). As CR's official psychology partner I lead psychology-based #CRcoach chats, publish in the Creative Rugby Magazine, and generally engage coaches from across the UK and abroad in psychological education.

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  The bay (swansea) ltd

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Contributor (writer/columnist)

  I provide personal, performance and sport psychology advice, hints and tips to The Bay's many readers (the magazine circulates to 15,000 homes). After advertising in the magazine for a few months, my first article will appear in the September 2014 edition. Please visit www.theswanseabay.co.uk!

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  Mumbles rangers football club

  Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

  Performance psychologist

  Coach Education III Parent Support III Player Intervention III Applied Psychology Research.With approximately 500 registered players and 100 coaches, my local amateur club, MRFC, fields 37 teams on any given Saturday. I am their performance psychologist, and we are finalising the structured, cutting-edge programme of support that they will receive from me over the coming years. By forming this working relationship with me, MRFC, like my other sporting business partners, are breaking new ground for performance psychology at the local level and at sub-elite standards of sport. Contact me to discuss how we can form a similar solution-focused partnership. Show less

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  "mark govier - elite golf coach - performance squad" (machynys pgcc)

  Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

  Official psychologist

  Junior Player Development III Coach Education III Parent Support III Applied Psychology ResearchMark Govier, Head Professional at Machynys PGCC, has appointed me his official psychology partner, and my first task is to provide psychological support to his new select Junior Performance Squad. (www.elitegolfcoach.com)

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  Aberystwyth university

  Jan 2015 - now

  - November 2022: Teaching behaviour change science to veterinary science students at our Veterinary Education Centre, the only veterinary school in Wales (https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/vet-sci/). Invited by the Head of the Vet School, a prudent move (cf. https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/calls-for-vet-schools-to-teach-more-behavioural-psychology/).- October 2022: Work package lead (behavioural insights) for a ~£1.5m Wellcome Trust bid (call: 'Advancing climate mitigation policy solutions with health co-benefits in G7 countries').- October 2022: Kicked off another round of mentoring young people interested in STEM subjects for Brightside Mentoring's national programme (https://brightsidementoring.org/).- October 2022: PI on a ~£350k stage 1 application for a Health and Care Research Wales Health Research Grant.- September 2022: I welcomed the first cohort to our MSc in Behaviour Change at Aberystwyth University (https://courses.aber.ac.uk/postgraduate/C801-behaviour-change/). On one hand this is the culmination of years of thinking, planning, stakeholder engagement, and lengthy validation processes; on the other, it's just the start of a journey of mutual education, collaboration, impactful dissertation research, and opportunity.- September 2022: Designed and co-delivered (with Kate Parsons) a behaviour change workshop for stakeholders in African Penguin (and other endangered seabirds) conservation, in Cape Town, funded by MeerWissen, the National Geographic Society, et al. (see https://africanpenguinhealth.co.za/).- April 2022: Project meeting in Billund, Denmark, for MIXED (https://projects.au.dk/mixed), our 7m Euro, 4-year, 10-country Horizon2020 project. - April 2022: Publication of our article, 'Increasing creative self-efficacy: Developing the confidence of biochemistry undergraduates to innovate' (doi: 10.1002/bmb.21628).Details of more recent projects to be listed here soon, when I get a minute. I really should do this as I go... Show less

  • Lecturer In Psychology and Behaviour Change Science

    Aug 2019 - now

  • Recent Research, Funding, and Applied Experiences

    Jan 2015 - now