Our Research.

Our team are research active which enables us to utilise recent advances, strategies and ideas in both sport science and health and performance psychology. A selection of our recent publications are detailed below:

  • Lyons, D., Clarke, P., Smyth, M., Burrows, E., Gilpin, P., Horan, M., ... & Dempsey, R. C. (2025). The “5Rs of Rugby”: A Reflective Case Study on the Reality of Implementing a Mental Health Literacy and Social Norms Intervention With Professional Rugby Players. Case Studies in Sport and Performance Psychology, 9(2), 70-77.  

  • Lyons, D., Clarke, P., & Dempsey, R.C. (2024). Tackle Your feelings: Experience of help seeking for mental wellbeing concerns in Professional Rugby Union Players. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2022-0014

  • Cranswick, I., Tod, D., Clarke, P., & Jones, A. (2023). Exploring the impact of athletic identity on gender role conflict and athlete injury fear avoidance in male English professional academy football players. Science and Medicine in Football, 1-9.

  • Tomaszewska-Collins, W., & Clarke, P. (2022). A qualitative exploration of choking under pressure in commercial airline pilots: a phenomenological approach. Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, 12(1), 12-20. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1027/2192-0923/a000219

  • Verner, D., Chandler, C., & Clarke, P. (2021). Exploring the contribution of personal qualities to the personal and professional development of trainee sport psychology practitioners within the individuation process. Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research. DOI: 10.2478/pcssr-2021-0024

  • Fido, D., Rees, A., Clarke, P. Petronzi, D., & Richardson, M. (2020). Examining the connection between nature connectedness and dark personality. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72.

  • Clarke, P., Sheffield, D., & Akehurst, S. (2020). Personality predictors of Yips and Choking susceptibility. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2784.

  • O’Neill, E., Clarke, P., Fido, D., Vione, K. (2020) The role of future time perspective, body awareness and social connectedness in the relationship between self-efficacy and resilience. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

  • McGill, P., Clarke. P., & Sheffield, D. (2019). From “blind elation” to “oh my god, what have I gotten into”. Exploring the experience of executive coaching during leadership transitions into C-Suite roles. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 17 (1), 3-18.

  • Clarke, P., Sheffield, D., & Akehurst, S. (2015). The Yips in Sport: A systematic Review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 8 (1), 156-184.