Senior Lecturer (Sport Psychology)
Qualifications
BA (Hons): Sport and Human Movement Studies
MSc (Distinction): Sport and Exercise Science
PhD Sport Psychology
Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods
Academic Leadership
Programme Director: BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
Year Tutor: Sport and Exercise Science
Module Leader: Sport Psychology, Professional Application of Sport & Exercise Science
Sporting Profile
Professional football player
International Schoolboy Captain (Wales)
Wales University Captain
Great Britain Students and World Student Games
UEFA qualified coach
Wales U16 Coach
Research Interests
Social support & the psychology of injury
Psychological aspects of elite athletes and coaches
Career transitions & athletic identity
Leadership
Life skills development and resiliency
Research Honours
The British Psychological Society (DSEP) Award: Outstanding PhD Thesis
Consultancy
Elite football players and coaches
The Football Association (England)
The Football Association (Wales)
Malta Football Association
The Welsh Rugby Union
The Rugby Football Union
Cardiff City FC
Swansea City FC
Learning and Teaching
UWIC Learning and Teaching Fellow
HEA Accreditor
PgCert Teaching Advisor and Assessor
HEA Grant reviewer
Teaching Development Grant reviewer (HEA)
HEA (HLST) Pedagogic and Development Project
External Examiner
Southampton University
University of Hertfordshire
University of Bath
Funding
FIFA – Elite player perceptions of football surfaces (€100,000)
International Rugby Board – One Turf Concept (£60,000)
European Social Fund – Life skills development coach education (£72,000)
Football Association of Wales – Leadership development program (£25,000)
Higher Education Academy - Digital learning project (£20,000)
Strategic Insight Project – Mentoring in coach education (£3,000)
Membership of Professional Bodies
British Psychological Society (BPS)
Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES)
Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)
Journal Reviewer
The Sport Psychologist
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Journal of Sports Sciences
European Journal of Sport Sciences
Grant Reviewer
The Leverhulme Trust
The Economic and Social Research Council
Accreditation
Associate Fellow & BPS Chartered Psychologist
Health & Care Professions Council (Reg. PYL29219).
Refereed Academic Journal Papers
Mitchell, I.D., Evans, L., Rees, T., & Hardy, L. (2013). Stressors, social support and tests of the buffering hypothesis: Effects on psychological responses of injured athletes. British Journal of Health Psychology, 1-23.
Evans, L., Wadey, R., Hanton, S., & Mitchell, I. (2012). Stressors experienced by injured athletes. Journal of Sports Sciences, 30, 917-927.
Mitchell, I.D. (2011). Social support and psychological responses in sport-injury rehabilitation. Sport & Exercise Psychology Review, Vol. 7, 2, 30-44.
Wadey, R., Evans, K., Evans, L. & Mitchell, I.D. (2011). Examining the antecedents and mechanisms underlying the perceived benefits following sport injury. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 23, 142-158.
Rees, T., Mitchell, I.D., Evans, L., & Hardy, L. (2010). Stressors, social support and psychological responses to sport injury in high and low performance standard participants. Psychology of Sport & Exercise. 11, 505-512.
Evans, L., Hardy, L., Mitchell, I.D., and Rees, T. (2008). The Development of a Measure of Psychological Responses to Sport Injury. Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, Vol 17, 1, 21-38.
Mitchell, I. D., Wadey, R., Neil. R., and Hanton, S. (2007). Gender differences in athletes' social support during injury rehabilitation. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Vol 29, S189.
Neil, R., Mellalieu, S., Hanton, S., and Mitchell, I.D. (2007). Temporal patterning of pre-competitive state anxiety symptoms in female netballers. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Vol 29, S193.
Rees, T., Mitchell, I.D, Evans, L., & Hardy, L. (2004). Social support and psychological response to injury. Psychology and Health, 19 (suppl. 1), 144.
Mitchell, I.D., Rees, T., Evans, L., & Hardy, L. (in preparation). Stressors, social support and the buffering hypothesis: Effects on psychological responses of injured athletes.
Mitchell, I. D. & Evans, L. (in preparation). Cognitive and behavioural aspects of social support in injured athletes.
Mitchell, I. D. & Evans, L. (in preparation). Injury rehabilitation: A social support intervention study.
Mitchell, I.D. & Evans, L. (in preparation). Gender differences in social support and sport injury.
Ridge, A., Irwin, G., Mitchell, I.D., & Mellick, M. (in preparation). Development and acquisition of coaching specific knowledge in Women's Artistic Gymnastics.
Contributions to Edited Research Books
Kingston, K., Thomas, O., & Mitchell, I.D. (2008). Psychology for Coaches. An Introduction to Sports Coaching: From Science and Theory to Practice. In Jones, R. L., Hughes. M., & Kingston, K. (Eds). Routledge.
Evans, L., Mitchell, I.D., & Jones, S. (2006). Psychological Response to Sport Injury. In Hanton, S. and Mellalieu, S.D. (Eds.), Literature Reviews in Sport Psychology. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science.
Conference presentations
Appaneal, R. N., Mitchell, I., Faull, A., O'Connor, E., Detling Miller, N. & Cropley, B. (2012). Interdisciplinary and international perspectives of working with athletes Research symposium at the Annual Conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Atlanta, USA. September.
Evans, L., Mitchell, I., & Wadey, R. (2012). Pre- and post-sport injury interventions: research and practice. Research symposium to be presented at the International Convention on Science Education and Medicine in Science. Glasgow, UK. July.
Mitchell, I.D. and Evans, L. (2011). Gender differences in social support and sport injury. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Evans, L., Wadey, R., Mitchell, I.D. & Podlog, L. (2011). Pre and Post-Sport Injury Interventions: Research and Practice. Symposium presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Tong, R.J., Neil, R, Mitchell, I.D. & Thomas, O. (2011). Moderating Dissertations: An Interdisciplinary Approach. BASES Annual Conference, University of Essex.
Tong, R. J., Neil, R. & Mitchell, I. D. (2010). Student satisfaction: A view from Sport and Exercise Science students nationally. BASES Annual Conference, Glasgow.
Mitchell, I.D. and Evans, L. (2010). Injury rehabilitation: A social support intervention study. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Evans, L. and Mitchell, I.D. (2010). Cognitive and behavioural aspects of social support in injured athletes. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Mitchell, I.D. and Tong, R. J. (2010). Assessment diversity and the student learning experience. Paper presented at the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, University of Hertfordshire.
Mitchell, I.D. and Tong, R. J. (2010). Developing reflection skills through work-based learning. Paper presented at the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, University of Hertfordshire.
Chesterfield, G., Jones, R., and Mitchell, I.D. (2007). Loosening the shackles: developing more realistic forms of coach assessment. Paper presented at the ICCE Global Coach Conference, Beijing.
Mitchell, I. D., Wadey, R., Neil. R., and Hanton, S. (2007). Gender differences in athletes' social support during injury rehabilitation. Paper presented at the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. San Diego, California.
Neil, R., Mellalieu, S., Hanton, S., and Mitchell, I.D. (2007). Temporal patterning of precompetitive state anxiety symptoms in female netballers. Paper presented at the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. San Diego, California.
Mitchell, I. D. and Evans, L. (2006). Enacted social support and psychological responses of injured athletes: Testing the stress-buffering hypothesis. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Miami, Florida.
Evans, L. and Mitchell, I.D. (2006). Gender differences in athletes' psychological responses to injury. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Miami, Florida.
Mitchell, I.D., Rees, T., Evans, L., & Hardy, L. (2005). The development of the social support inventory for injured athletes. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Mitchell, I.D., & Neil, R. (2005). Social support and hardiness as predictors of the psychological responses of injured athletes. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Evans, L., &
Mitchell, I.D. (2005). The temporal pattern of athletes' psychological responses to injury. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Kingston, K., Mitchell, I.D., & Perry, J. (2005). Development of a measure to assess goal focus in sport. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Mitchell, I.D., Rees, T., Evans, L., & Hardy, L. (2004). Matching Social Support with Stressors: Effects on Psychological Responses of Injured Athletes. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Minneapolis.
Evans, L., Hardy, L., Mitchell, I.D., and Rees, T. (2004). The Development of a Measure of Psychological Responses to Sport Injury. Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference, Minneapolis.
Post-Graduate Research Supervision
Doctor of Philosophy
David Ainslie
Social Support in the stress-injury Relationship (Supervisor)
Abigail Ridge
The role of social support in the coach-athlete dyad in female artistic gymnastics
Completion 2013 (Director of Studies).
Ceri Bowley
Resilient coping and life skills development planning for adolescents within a Football Coach Education programme.
Completion 2015 (Director of Studies).
Professional Doctorate
Craig Gill. Improving the sport-coach mentoring process: Exploring the impact of emotional intelligence.
