Smart moves: exploring the wider benefits of physical activity

One of the most exciting aspects of the recent research into physical activity has been the way it led us to widen our view of the potential...

So What Is Developmentally Appropriate Sport?

I have written a guest blog for the sports coach UK site.  It's on a perennial, but challenging issue of Developmentally Appropriate Spo...

Books on the Body-Mind Connection

I am really pleased to say that the next blog entry has been written by Dr Jennifer Leigh, an expertise on yoga and somatic education.  I as...

Making Sport a Daily Habit: What Motivates Children to Take Part in Sport?

I am really pleased to present a Guest Post from Ed Cope, a specialist researcher in Yout h Sport at the University of Berdfordshire in the ...

Young Adults and Sport: motives and barriers

I am delighted to tell you that today's is a Guest Post. It is the first of a series of guest posts, focusing on sports participation, w...

What's the point of Grammar Schools?

The journalist  Daniel Knowles has written an interesting article about Grammar Schools in the  Daily Telegraph .   Part of its interest lie...

Aims - what's the point of PE and sports coaching?

‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly … ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’  ‘That depends a good deal on w...