Lecturer in Coaching and Leadership
Sport J2A, Pathfoot Building, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, Stirling, FK9 4LA
I am an experienced and active coach, coach educator and mentor with over 30 years of practical experience, coaching in Adventure Sports Coaching and Performance Coaching domains. Before my appointment at Stirling in December 2017, I had spent the previous ten years coaching the dynamic sport of canoe slalom at both club and national level.
I am currently Programme Director for:
In addition to teaching at Stirling, I coach canoe slalom as a volunteer with my local club, work as a coach educator for British Canoeing and mentor several performance coaches.
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Higher Education Academy
As a coaching practitioner, I seek to bring a ‘what could really works’ focus to my academic work. My specific areas of interest are: coaching effectiveness, coach development and education, pedagogy, talent development from a holistic perspective, and coaches decision making.
Article
The "Face" of Coach Development: A Systematic Review of the Role of the Coach Developer
Jones T, Allen J & Macdonald S (2023) The "Face" of Coach Development: A Systematic Review of the Role of the Coach Developer. International Sport Coaching Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2022-0017
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Macdonald S & Allen J (2019) Coach Created Talent Development Motivational Climate: Implications for approaches to learning and talent development., 04.09.2019-05.09.2019. https://www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academic-schools/school-of-sport-and-exercise-science/sport-and-exercise-science-research/cric-2019.aspx
Article
Coach-created talent development motivational climate in Canoe Slalom in the United Kingdom
Macdonald S & Allen J (2019) Coach-created talent development motivational climate in Canoe Slalom in the United Kingdom. International Sport Coaching Journal / ISCJ, 6 (1), pp. 74-87. https://doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2017-0091
Lecture
Macdonald S & Allen J (2017) Examining the canoe slalom talent development coaching climate created by coaches and experienced by athletes (Presentation) ICCE Global Coach Conference, Liverpool, England, 31.07.2017-02.08.2017. https://www.icce.ws/events.html
Currently, I am primarily deployed on the MSc. Sport Performance Coaching programme.
Module Coordinator for:
SPSP050 Coaching Concepts,
SPSP054 Coaching as Learning,
Module Contributions
SPSP057 Understanding Performance
SPSP065 Independent Study
SPSP037 Applied Coaching Project.
On the BA (Hons) Sports Studies programme I am
Module Coordinator for:
SPSU9CL Coaching Sport,
Module Contributions
SPSU9RP Major Project in Sports Studies
SPSU9D5 Developing Excellence in Sport