Care in Sport Coaching: New Developments - Dr Colum Cronin (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Caring relationships in sport coaching have moral and pedagogical value. Researchers have increasingly centralised this idea and explored how coaches develop caring relationships. In this episode, Dr Colum Cronin gives an update on how caring research in coaching has evolved in the last couple of years. Following up on Colum's earlier visit in the podcast, we focus on recent updates in sport coaching research including (1) the new focus on athletes' perspectives on caring and (2) caring for coaches. We also discuss key theoretical ideas on caring that have informed research in the sport domain.

Dr Colum Cronin is Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education at Liverpool John Moores University and serves as an associate editor for Sports Coaching Review. He is the co-editor of the book Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases (together with Kathleen Armour).

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Found the episode interesting? Our previous conversation focused on care in coaching can be accessed here.

Also, keep an eye on the forthcoming Special Issue on care in coaching in Sport Coaching Review. Articles within the SI, published ahead of print, include Breaking through? Exploring care in the early life of elite Swedish athletes (Kjær et al. 2022) and “It looks like he cares, but he doesn’t.”: athletes’ experiences of “good” and “bad” care in women’s football (Lewis et al., 2022).