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Reader in Sport and Exercise Psychology

Contact Details

Office: N322 Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 816437 Fax: +44 (0) 1243 816080 Email: I.Greenlees@chi.ac.uk

Introduction

Iain first came to the University of Chichester in 1994 when he came to start his PhD. Since then Iain has taught, researched and offered consultancy services at the university. Iain has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and is a British Psychological Society Chartered Sport & Exercise Psychologist. In the past, Iain has worked with the English Golf Union as a sport psychologist.

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Education

1992 - BSc in Psychology, University of Stirling, UK

1994 - MSc in Sport & Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

1998 - PhD in Sport Psychology, Southampton University, UK

Teaching

Iain is responsible for the following modules:

• Sport Psychology (Level M)
• Sport Psychology Interventions (Level M)
• Principles of Psychology (SPL121)

Administration

Iain is a member of the following committees:

• Sport & Exercise Psychology Area Research Co-ordinator
• Departmental Management Team member
• Research Committee member
• Ethics Committee member

Research and Consultancy

Interests

Iain has research interests in the following areas:

• Person perception in sport, the role of body language in sport,
• motivation and attribution theory,
• group dynamics,
• mental toughness.

Director of Studies

• PhD: Gina Hobson – The Impact of Personal and Situational Factors on Self-Presentation Concerns in Sport.
• PhD: Neil Weston – The Impact of Butler and Hardy's (1992) Performance Profiling Technique in Sport.
• PhD: Matthew Rimmer – Forming Impressions of Opponents: The Impact of Person Perception on individual competitive ports interactions.
• PhD: Marie Stopforth – The consequences of team attributions in sport.
• PhD: Jamie Barker – Hypnosis in Sport. Completed at Staffordshire University,
• PhD: Andrew Manley - Expectancies and their consequences within the coach-athlete relationship : an athlete-centred investigation.
• PhD: Matthew Smith – Order effects in assessments of sporting ability.
• PhD: Richard Buscombe – Interpersonal Perception in Sport: An Examination of Factors Influencing Expectancy Effects
• MPhil/PhD: Phil Birch – Mental Toughness
• MPhil/PhD: Helen Barrett - Embodied Cognition

PhD Examination

 

• David Shearer – Collective efficacy and imagery in sport. University of Swansea, .
• Ross Lorimer  - Empathic understanding and accuracy in the coach-athlete relationship. Loughborough University.
• Denise Hill – Choking in sport: The case of elite golfers. University of Gloucestershire.

Consultancy

• 1997 - 2000           Amateur Swimming Association Challenge 2000 Psychology Consultant.
• 1998-1999             Swim Portsmouth Ltd.
• 1998-1999             South West Sports Council STEP Project
• 1998 -2003            English Ladies Golf Association - Psychology Consultant
• 1999 - 2000           Surrey Hockey Association - Psychology Consultant and Sport Science

                                 Co-ordinator

• 2000-2006             English Golf Union – Psychology Consultant

                                Sussex County Golf Union – Psychology Consultant

Membership

• British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
• British Psychological Society

Publications

Greenlees, I.A., Dicks, M., Thelwell, R.T., & Holder, T. (2007). Order effects in sport: Examining the impact of order of information presentation on attributions of ability. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 8,477-489.

Greenlees, I.A., Stopforth, M.L., Graydon, J.K., Thelwell, R.C., Filby, W.C.D., & El-Hakim, Y. (2007). The impact of match importance and gender on the team-serving attributional bias among interdependent sports team players. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 11, 42-53.

Greenlees, I.A., Webb, H., Hall, B., & Manley, A. (2007). Curmudgeon or golden-ager: Reported exercise participation influences the perception of older adults. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 29, 333-347.

Shapcott, K. M., Carron, A.V., Greenlees, I., & Hakim, Y. E., (2008). Team-referent attributions as a shared belief. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 9, 487-492.

Greenlees, I.A., Leyland, A., Thelwell, R.C., & Filby, W. (2008). The influence of soccer penalty takers’ uniform colour and pre-penalty kick gaze on the impression formed of them by goalkeepers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 26, 569-576.

Greenlees, I.A., Hall, B., Filby, W.C.D., Thelwell, R.C., Buscombe, R., & Smith, M.J. (2009). Warnings given to observers can eliminate order effects. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 10, 300-303.

Abstracts (2007 – present)

Shapcott, K. M., Carron, A.V., Greenlees, I., Hakim, Y. E., (2007). Team-referent attributions: A multi-level analysis. Paper presented at North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Conference, San Diego, California, USA, June, 2007.

Greenlees, I.A. & Webb, H. (2007). The influence of reported exercise participation on how older adults are perceived. Paper presented at the 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology, Halkidiki, Greece, September 2007.

Thelwell, R.C., Weston, N.J.V. & Greenlees, I.A. (2007). Coach psychological skill usage in competition: A descriptive account. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Bath, UK, 9-11th September 2007.

Greenlees, I.A. (2009). Scaling the heights or stuck in the foothills?: Examining the health of the intervention efficacy research landscape. Paper presented at the 13th World Congress of the International Society of Sport Psychology, Marrakesh, Morocco, July 2009.

Greenlees, I.A., & Leyland, A. (2009). Order Effects in Sport: Do they occur and can we get rid of them? Paper presented at the 13th World Congress of the International Society of Sport Psychology, Marrakesh, Morocco, July 2009.

Greenlees, I.A., Eynon, M., & Thelwell, R.C. (2010). The effects of goalkeepers’ clothing colour on penalty kick performance. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 13-15th April 2010.

Edited books

Greenlees, I.A. & Moran, A. (2003). Concentration skills training in sport. Leicester, UK: British Psychological Society.

Edited works: Contributions:

Greenlees, I.A. (in preparation). Person perception in sport. In S. Jowett & D. Lavallee (Eds.) Social Psychology of Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Journal Reviewer for:

• Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology
• The Sport Psychologist
• Psychology of Sport and Exercise
• Journal of Sports Science

Journal Editorial Board:

• International Review of Sport & Exercise Psychology
• Sport & Exercise Psychology Review