Malone, James J. and Harper, Liam D and Jones, Ben and Perry, John and Barnes, Chris and Towlson, Chris (2018) Perspectives of applied collaborative sport science research within professional team sports. European Journal of Sport Science, 19 (2). pp. 147-155. ISSN 1746-1391
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Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives of both academics and practitioners in relation to forming applied collaborative sports science research within team sports. Ninety-three participants who had previously engaged in collaborative research partnerships within team sports completed an online survey which focused on motivations and barriers for forming collaborations using blinded sliding scale (0-100) and rank order list. Research collaborations were mainly formed to improve team performance (Academic: 73.6 ± 23.3; Practitioner: 84.3 ± 16.0; ES = 0.54, small). Academics ranked journal articles importance significantly higher than practitioners (Academic: Mrank = 53.9; Practitioner 36.0; z = -3.18, p = .001, p < q). However, practitioners rated one-to-one communication as more preferential (Academic: Mrank = 41.3; Practitioner 56.1; z = -2.62, p = .009, p < q). Some potential barriers were found in terms of staff buy in (Academic: 70.0 ± 25.5; Practitioner 56.8 ± 27.3; ES = 0.50, small) and funding (Academic: 68.0 ± 24.9; Practitioner: 67.5 ± 28.0; ES = 0.02, Trivial). Both groups revealed low motivation for invasive mechanistic research (Academic: 36.3 ± 24.2; Practitioner: 36.4 ± 27.5; ES = 0.01, trivial), with practitioners have a preference towards ‘fast’ type research. There was a general agreement between academics and practitioners for forming research collaborations. Some potential barriers still exist (e.g. staff buy in and funding), with practitioners preferring ‘fast’ informal research dissemination compared to the ‘slow’ quality control approach of academics.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication by Taylor & Francis in the European Journal of Sport Science. The final, published version is available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17461391.2018.1492632 |
| Keywords: | Coaching, Education, Sport Science, Barriers, Performance, Survey |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Health and Sport Sciences |
| Depositing User: | James Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2018 13:44 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2019 15:59 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2545 |
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