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This project examines the medical management of pain and injury in British Olympic sport. By drawing upon the perspectives of health-care providers, it explores key developments such as the professionalisation, formalisation and bureaucratisation of sports medicine and the conse…

The purpose of this research programme was to propose a new structure for judo coaching. Judo coaching predominantly uses traditional methods emphasising progression through belts rather than success in competition as the measure of achievement. The research programme examined t…

This thesis aimed to extend the existing body of research that has deployed machine learning to conduct multidimensional investigations of expertise development (e.g. Güllich et al., 2019; Jones et al., 2019); and was the first to provide a detailed account of the pathway to eli…