Overview
Tuesday 17 June
12.00 – 13.00 - Registration and conference opening
13.00 – 14.00 Rising Star Keynote Address - Dr. Zoe Avner
14.00 – 14.30 Coffee break
13.30 – 16.30 Parallel session 1
PS1A | Social learning and pedagogy in sport coaching | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Robyn Jones
- Culver, Diane M. – Social learning leaders: Year 2 in developing a new player for the Canadian sport system
- Jones, Luke – A socio-cultural exploration of the relationship between sports coaching and fatherhood and fathering
- Watson, Matthew – Understanding good coaching in e-sports: Stakeholder perspectives and effective practices
PS1B | The phenomenology of sport coaching | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: John Cowell
- Corsby, Charles – Living with injury: A phenomenology of rehabilitation for coaches
- Doyle, Elliott – Meaning and experience in sports coaching practice: a phenomenological exploration
- van Dun, Wouter – Embracing anxiety: An existential-phenomenological approach to elite sports coaching and athlete well-being
PS1C | Sport coaching policies and methodologies | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Don Vinson
- Whitehead, Amy – To Think Aloud or not to Think Aloud? Critical considerations for using the Think Aloud method within sport coaching research
- Bespomoshchnov, Vladislav – Better safe than sorry: How can sport coaching and coach learning benefit concussion prevention?
- Ansell, Dallas – Concussion return to play policies and protocols: A matter of concern
16.30 Bar opens in NIH cafeteria
17.00 – 18.00 CRiC General Assembly Meeting
18.00 – 19.00 - Informal social networking and barbeque - NIH cafe
Wednesday 18 June
10.00 – 12.00 Parallel session 2
PS2A | Critical perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development I | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Charlie Corsby
- O’Sullivan, Mark – Where are we now?
- Carr, Benjamin – Rights-based, athlete-centred, caring, safeguarding, holistic…and competitive? Civilizing coaching beyond competition (and beyond sport)
- Charbonnet, Bryan – Welfare and performance growth logics in youth elite sport: Compatible or not?
- Bjørndal, Christian Thue – From acceleration to resonance: Reimagining Norwegian youth sport coaching in a rapidly changing world
PS2B | Gendered approaches to sport coaching I | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: Anna Stodter
- Tjønndal, Anne – The gendering of technological innovations in sports coaching
- Boyer, Amélie – Coaching, yes but how? Forms and change of leadership among French high performance women coaches through their careers
- Parfait, Alix – Sustainable careers in sports organizations? From the standpoint of female top leaders
- Saarinen, Milla – Understanding young aspiring women leaders experiences on future sustainable work life through dream day narratives
PS2C | The history of sport coaching I (Panel) | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Dave Day
- Svensson, Daniel – coaching and challenging established norms: Inga Löwdin and the development of gender equality in XC skiing
- Day, Dave – Victorian Englishmen abroad: Hierarchical diffusion and the transmission of swimming knowledge
- Krieger, Jörg – Woldemar Gerschler: Inventor of interval training and the man who made the Germans run
- Skjeldal, Gudmund – The coaching of circus children: historical perspectives and philosophical implications
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Beyond Boundaries keynote address - Professor Håkan Larsson
14.00 - 14.30 Coffee break
14.30 - 16.30 - Parallel session 3
PS3A | Critical perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development II | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Charlie Corsby
- Consterdine, Alexandra – Getting your head around theory: poststructuralist and postmodernist approaches in sports coaching research
- Cresswell, James – Possibilities and perils in post-structuralist coaching: Irony as a technology for the art of Coaching
- Loka Øydna, Marie – Negotiating power and pleasure as student-athletes: Re-thinking coaching in lower secondary sport schools
- Gagnås, Henrik Larsen – The impact of the academy classification model on coaching practices in Norwegian football: A Foucauldian analysis of governance and player development
PS3B | Gendered approaches to sport coaching II | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: Anna Stodter
- Bentzen, Marte – "Nothing is sustainable in this profession": Gender equality through sustainable work life for French and Norwegian high-performance coaches
- Santos, Sofia – Not a bull in a China shop – Micropolitical literacy and women in coaching
- Kalina, Lisa & Schubring, Astrid – Gender and high-performance sport coaching in Germany: Preliminary findings from the ‘QualiFT’ project
- Galdino, Matheus – Unlocking the career potential and development of women football coaches in Europe
PS3C | The history of sport coaching II (Panel) | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Dave Day
- Munkwitz, Erica – Taking the reins: Eva Christy as riding instructor and equestrian innovator
- Bonini, Gherardo – Chefin Brigitte Fink, the Driver of Italian Luge’s Golden Era
- Roberts, Margaret – From the classroom to the coast: The life of Julia Andrew, forgotten pioneer of women’s fitness
- Goksøyr, Matti – Bringing the Scottish style of football to a new setting: Donald Colman, possession football and the success of SK Brann, Bergen in the 1920`s
18.00 - 19.30 Welcoming reception Oslo City Hall
Remember to be at site 30 minutes before, bring your invitation ticket and do not bring big bags.
20.00
After the reception at City Hall, we’ll stroll over to Prindsen Hage for drinks and conversation, approximately around 8 pm.
Thursday 19 June
9.30 – 11.30 Parallel session 4
PS4A | Critical perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development III | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Adam Nichol
- Frandsen, Lasse Nørgaard – Response-abilities of coaching practices: Fieldworlding with esports coaches to disrupt the tight ontologies of health and physical activity
- Erdogan, Sanna – What’s love got to do with coaching positions? Researching passion as an encumbrance in combat sports coaching
- Skebo, Kristi – Thinking differently to do differently: (Re)Conceptualizing ‘skill’ in everyday repetitive skill practices in rhythmic gymnastics
- Howe, Olivia – Care and coaching: Conceptual and ethical insights from Tronto’s ethics of care
PS4B | Coach development and mentoring I | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: Edward Hall
- Taylor, Jamie – Finding a path – understanding the employment, demands and peparation for high performance rugby union coaching
- Thomas, Gethin – A race to win space: A cultural historical theoretical approach to developing rugby union coaches’ theoretical understanding
- Ashford, Michael – "Have you done your badges?" Looking beyond educating coaches to understand the developmental biographies of expertise in academy football coaches
- Morgan, Callum – Collectively performing (hidden) work: The enactment of dramaturgical discipline in coach education work
PS4C | Psychological perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development I | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Matt Watson
- Rafnsson, Daði – Coaches’ perspectives from a 5Cs psychological skills intervention in an MLS Football Academy
- Solomons, Jocelyn – The 3+1Cs in Action: Transforming coaching practices in South African women’s Rugby
- Crowne, Siubhean – Evaluation of a sport psychology programme within a Category 1 English football academy
- Pettersen, Jannicke – Coaches’ challenges and work with the children-to-youth sport transition in Norway
11.30-13.00 Poster session outside NIH cafeteria and lunch
- Kristiansen, Elsa – Pathway to the elite: Key qualities and support mechanisms for female handball players transitioning to elite and national team levels
- Sevdalis, Vassilis – Empathy in sports coaching: A review of the literature
- Moran, David – Keeping it real: Exploring fidelity in team sports coaching
- Heggebø, Frank – “Mentoring in elite sports” – a coach-developer program to support high performance coaches
- Burns, Alex – Grouping by ability in youth sport: Understanding the grouping decisions of coaches in Gaelic games
- Helland, Christian – Pedagogical approaches to strength training
- Vickery, Will – Defining success: A coach’s perspective
13.00 – 14.00 Bill Taylor memorial keynote - Professor Kenneth Aggerholm
14.00 – 14.30 - Coffee break
14.30 – 16.30 - Parallel session 5
PS5A | Critical perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development IV | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Callum Morgan
- Fisher, Kelly – Coaching Boys into Men – Initial findings from an evaluation of the Coaching Boys program in Norway
- Hunter, Alice – Selected stories from the unselected: An auto-ethnography depicting the emotional conflicts faced as a substitute in elite sport
- Consterdine, Alexandra – Should I stay or should I go? Is there a use by date on coach-athlete relationships? Shifting, temporal and contextual notions of power-relations within track and field athletics
- Simpson, Harley-Jean - Understanding the dramaturgical demands of coaches’ decision-making within a team context
PS5B | Coach development and mentoring II | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: Chris Cushion
- Lascu, Alex – The people want drills: The experiences of a grassroots coach developer in Australian cricket
- Stephens, David - Exploring coach educator expertise (Re)development through video stimulated recall
- Nichol, Adam – Developing trust and trustworthiness in sport coaching and sport coach mentoring
- Hall, Edward – Textures of time: Strategic temporality in sport coach mentoring
PS5C | Psychological perspectives on sport coaching and athlete development II | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Matt Watson
- Berntsen, Hedda – Elite athletes’ perception of mental performance competencies development: The importance of coach contribution
- Cantwell, Eleanor – Bouncing Back: Coach perspectives on talent development in gymnastics through the covid era
- Hughes, Craig – From neutral to transformational: A critical realist analysis of intentional coach leadership behaviours and the disparity of athlete perceptions.
- Magnaguagno, Lukas – Functional action analysis: A psychological model for the development of a problem-solving competence in game sports
18.20 - Ferry to Gressholmen
Meeting point Rådhusbrygge 4 (seaside of Oslo City Hall)
19.00-22.00 - Conference dinner - Gressholmen Kro
Friday 20 June 2025
10.00 – 12.00 - Parallel session 6
PS6A | Inclusive sport coaching | Auditorium Innsikt
Chair: Callum Morgan
- Hembrough, Dave – The views, values, and experiences of sport and employability of young adults in an underserved community in the north of England
- Godman, Emma – Developing and implementing an inclusive sports coaching programme: An action research approach
- Book, Robert – Building inclusive sport environments: insights from American coaching practices for the Nordic context
- Callary, Bettina – Coaching perspectives on developing a sustainable inclusive ice hockey arena
PS6B | Coach development and mentoring III | Auditorium Utsikt
Chair: Gethin Thomas
- Newland, Andrew – What do performance-based football coaches need to know about the coach–athlete relationship?
- Darpatova-Hruzewicz, Donka – An ecological investigation of Polish Olympic coaches’ experiences in the production of coaching practices
- Corbett, Ross – Investigating the impact of a coach development programme for coaches’ use of feedback and reflective practice
- Rowlands, Siôn – Understanding and developing professional youth soccer coach behaviour
PS6C | Parasport and Special Olympics coaching | Auditorium Bredde
Chair: Colum Cronin
- Randrup, Kelsey – The institutionalisation of ableism: Understanding the landscape of disability coach education in New Zealand
- Hardwick, Amy Elizabeth – Negotiating the nuances and complexities of coaching in Special Olympics
- Cuvelier, Sarah – Exploring the pathways and developmental trajectories of French Olympic and Paralympic coaches: A narrative approach
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30-13.30 The past, present and future of Cluster for Research into Sports Coaching. Panel discussion led by Professor Don Vinson, University of Worchester
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch and conference closing