Running the London Marathon this weekend or know someone who is? Check out our 5 top tips to support your mental performance in this new blog by Dr Sally Reynard
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A special shout out to all those running for our longstanding partner St Basils!

Currently recruiting! I am also looking for student athletes aged 18-30 to take part in an online interview via Zoom. Are you or someone you know able to help out? Please spread the word and get in touch if you would like more information or wish to take part. Thank you!

Looks like an interesting and varied programme for this year's Annual Dance Medicine and Science Symposium including Maria Kolitsida (she/her) from the SPRINT Project UBSportExR who will share her research on self-harm in dance.

Erin Sanchez Anna Lavis

NEW PAPER examining mental health in athletes and the role of authentic leadership. We show an indirect positive effect via moral behaviour and psychological capital. In collaboration with Dr Shuge Zhang Prof Jennifer Cumming UBSportExR
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It was great to be a part of writing a book chapter on Mental Imagery with Prof Jennifer Cumming Dr Mary Quinton Dr Georgia Bird & Maria Kolitsida (she/her) published in the Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology!

Check out the blog post on the SPRINT Project website here: sprintproject.org/post/hot-off-t…

Congratulations Dr Georgia Bird on passing your PhD viva. Very well deserved!

Thanks to Prof Andy Lane and Dr Matthew Bird for examining the thesis and Jet Veldhuijzen van Zanten for serving as chair.

Dr Mary Quinton #proudsupervisors #SPRINTProject

Our experts have found that sports coaches could strengthen athletes’ mental health and protect them from mental illness – by adopting an ‘authentic leadership’ style birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/coac…

Congratulations again Maria Kolitsida (she/her) on your One Dance UK Science and Research in Dance Award.

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Anna Lavis Erin Sanchez UBSportExR Les Pozdena

Your Science and Research in Dance Award Recipient. I continue to be at a loss for words but I know this would not have been possible without the support of Prof Jennifer Cumming Anna Lavis and Erin Sanchez. Thank you for being the most brilliant supervisors and role models.

Massive congratulations to Maria Kolitsida (she/her) for winning One Dance UK's Science & Research Award. Very well deserved!

Anna Lavis Erin Sanchez

Congratulations to SportExR's Maria Kolitsida (she/her) for for being shortlisted for the One Dance UK Science and Research in Dance award and good luck for tomorrow!

UBSportExR College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Find out more about Maria's research: sprintproject.org/post/freelance…

So excited to have made the shortlist for the One Dance UK Science and Research in Dance Award alongside some incredibly inspiring dance scientists/researchers! Roll on the February celebrations!! 🎉

Also I promise that in 2023 alongside all the dancing I also did some work on the PhD and Prof Jennifer Cumming Anna Lavis Erin Sanchez and I published our Open Access paper on the Impact of the Pandemic on Dance Freelancers’ Mental Health tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#DSEP2023 was a fantastic conference. Thanks so much to BPS Sport & Exercise Psychology (DSEP) for organising the event & to everyone who came along and participated in our workshop.

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Dr Mary Quinton Dr Grace Tidmarsh Dr Georgia Bird Kirsty Brown Maria Kolitsida (she/her) Erin Sanchez

A fab couple of days ⁦BPS Sport & Exercise Psychology (DSEP)⁩ in Edinburgh! Really interesting presentations & great to present the results of our scoping review from my MSc ⁦UBSportExR⁩.😊

⁦Prof Jennifer Cumming⁩ ⁦Dr Mary Quinton⁩ ⁦Dr Grace Tidmarsh⁩

Had a brilliant time at BPS Sport & Exercise Psychology (DSEP) #DSEP2023 and it was amazing to have the talented Craig Watson capturing all the action #dance #psychology

Five minute challenge!

Is dance challenging our definitions of self-harm?

Maria Kolitsida, University of Birmingham.

#DSEP2023

Oral Presentation!

Behind the scenes: Understanding Psychologically Safe Dance Environments.

Grace Tidmarsh - University of Birmingham.

#DSEP2023

Oral Presentation!

Loneliness, depression, and emotion regulation of student-athletes.

Mary Quinton - University of Birmingham.

#DSEP2023

Oral Presentation!

Delivering Athlete-Centred Mental Skills Training: The CARES Model.

Jennifer Cumming, University of Birmingham.

#DSEP2023