Centre staff
Professor Ian Maynard
Director of CSES and professor of sport psychology
Phone 0114 225 4339
E-mail i.w.maynard@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Research interests centre around applied sport psychology and include anxiety and stress management, mental toughness, confidence building etc. Current consultancy contracts include sailing (Royal Yachting Association), diving, swimming, golf (English Golf Union) and Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL).
Background
BEd (Hons), MSc, PhD, C.Psychol., F.BASES.
Ian taught physical education for seven years before completing a Masters degree in sport psychology at the University of Victoria (B.C., Canada). Ian completed his doctorate with the psychology department of the University of Southampton. He lectured in sport psychology and physical education at the University of Chichester from 1987 to 1999 and took up the position of professor of sport psychology' at the Centre for Sport and Exercise Science in April 1999, later taking over as the Director of the Centre in 2004.
He became an accredited sports psychologist in 1988. Ian attended the Barcelona (Sailing) and Athens Olympics (Sailing, Boxing and Diving), the Victoria (Cycling) (1994) and Manchester (Bowls and Diving) (2002) Commonwealth Games and has been a consultant at World Championships in eight different sports. He is the director of the RYA World Class Performance and World Class Potential Sport Science Support Programmes and has acted as consultant to the All England Women's Lacrosse Association, the England Bowls Team (Commonwealth Games 2002 and 2006), the GB Diving Squad, Richmond Rugby Football Club, Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, the English Golf Union and the Amateur Boxing Association of England and many international performers in a variety of other sports.
He served for four years as the executive secretary of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) until September 2001 and chaired the BASES Sport Science Special Committee up until September 2000. Ian was chair of the psychology section within BASES from September 2002 until September 2004 and currently sits on the Accreditation and Fellowship committee as the psychology section representative. He has chartered status with the British Psychological Society and is a British Olympic Association registered sport psychologist.
Ian is currently the editor of The Sport Psychologist, an associate editor (Performance Enhancement) for the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, and director of the Centre for Sport and Exercise Science at Sheffield Hallam University. He is interested in most aspects of applied sport and exercise psychology and this is where his current research aspirations can be found.
Ian has played rugby union, soccer and cricket to county level and until 1999 coached the Sussex County Senior Rugby Union team.
Selected publications since 2005
Maynard, I.W. (2005). Catastrophe Models (within competitive state anxiety and performance). In Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies (Eds R. Bartlett, C. Gratton and C. Rolf). Taylor and Francis. pp. 229-30
Lindsay, P., Maynard, I.W., and Thomas, O. (2005). The effects of hypnosis on flow state and cycling performance. The Sport Psychologist. Vol 19, pp164-177.
Rotheram, M.J., Bawden, M.A., Maynard, I.W., Thomas, O.T., and Scaife, R. (2006). An exploratory investigation of the 'yips' using a mixed methodological approach. In: P.Hassmen and N.Hassmen (Eds.), Yearbook 2006 of the Swedish Sport Psychology Association. (pp.1-22). Laholm: Sweden. Trydells Tryckeri AB.
Lindsay, P., Breckon, J.D., Thomas, O., and Maynard, I.W., (2007). In Pursuit of Congruence: Are practitioners' personal philosophies aligned with their 'chosen' method of service? The Sport Psychologist. Vol 21, 3, pp 335-352.
Thomas, O.M., Hanton, S. and Maynard, I.W. (2007). Psychological preparation for Elite Performance I: A temporal analysis of the interpretation of the symptoms associated with competitive anxiety. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Vol 19, 4, pp 379-397.
Thomas, O.M., Maynard, I,W. and Hanton, S. (2007). Psychological preparation for Elite Performance II: A temporal multimodal intervention with athletes debilitated by their preperformance symptoms. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Vol 19, 4, pp 398-418.
Hays, K., Maynard. I, Thomas.O, and Bawden, M. (2007). Sources and types of self-confidence utilised by World Class performers: A gender-based comparison. The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Vol 19, 4, pp 434-456.
Hays, K., Thomas.O, Maynard. I. and Bawden, M. (2009). The role of confidence in World Class sport performance. Journal of Sport Science. Vol 27, (11), 1185-1199.
Olusoga, P., Butt. J., Hays, K., and Maynard. I., (2009). Stress in elite sports coaching: Identifying stressors. The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Vol 21, 4. 442-459.
Gould, D., and Maynard. I.W., (2009). Psychological preparation for the Olympic Games. The Journal of Sport Sciences (Special Issue). Vol 27, 13. 1393-1408.
Brady, A., and Maynard. I., (2010). Debate: At an elite level the role of a sport psychologist is entirely about performance enhancement. Sport and Exercise Psychology Review. Vol. 6 No.1. 59-66.
Hays, K., Thomas.O., Butt. J., and Maynard. I.,(In Press). The development of Confidence Profiling for Sport. The Sport Psychologist.
Hays, K., Thomas.O., Maynard. I., and Butt. J., (In Press). The role of Confidence Profiling in Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Sport. The Sport Psychologist.
Olusoga, P., Butt, J., Maynard, I.W., and Hays, K. (In Press). Stress and coping: A study of world class coaches. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
