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BA Sport and Environmental Studies; PGCE Physics/Chemistry & Physical Education; MSc Exercise Physiology and Nutrition Science; PhD Performance profiling in rugby football.
Lecturer in Sports Science and Physical Education Blackpool and The Fylde College (1991-1995); Head of Sport and Uniformed Services Blackpool and The Fylde College (1996-2001); Senior Lecturer Sports Science University of Chester (2001-2005); Senior Lecturer Performance Analysis UWIC (2005-2006); Senior Lecturer Sports Coaching and Performance Analysis MMU (2006-present)
Module leader: Level 4 Introduction to Sports Coaching Practice; Level 5 Coaching and Performance Analysis; Level 6 Planning and Performance Analysis in Sport; Performance Analysis (DL).
Completed:
2016- PhD: ‘A profile of soccer for athletes with cerebral palsy and traumatic brain injury: with special reference to classification’.
2014 – MA (by Research): ‘A history of National Hunt training’.
In progress:
PhD (Director of Studies): ‘An analysis of mobility patterns in primary school children: prevalence, opportunities, barriers, and potential interventions’.
MSc (By Research) (Director of Studies): ‘Profiling primary school children’s ‘in school’ physical activity’.
Reviewer/Examiner
2015 – External Examiner PhD ‘The demands of training and playing in elite rugby union’, University of Chester.
2014- 2017 External Examiner BSc. Coaching Science, Glyndwr University.
2013- Internal Examiner MA (by research) 'Biography of Reggie Walker: the South African sprinter'.
2012- External Examiner MPhil 'Physiological responses in Rugby League training', University of Chester.
2011- External Reviewer(course validation) BSc Sports and Exercise Science, Glyndwr University.
2011- External Reviewer (course validation) BSc Coaching Science, Glyndwr University.
Physical Activity and Health; Observation and Measurement of Human Movement; Notational Analysis; History of Sports Notation; Sporting Biographies; History of Lawn Tennis.
Research collaboration (History of Lawn Tennis) with Dr Robert J. Lake (Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada).
RJ. Lake, SJ. Eaves (2017). Defeat, Decline and Disconnect: A Critical Analysis of Attempted Reform in British Tennis during the Inter-war Period. Sport in History. 37(1),
SJ. Eaves Coaching, Physical Training, and the Changing Landscape of Lawn Tennis: Australasia's Ascendency to Dominance in the pre-Great War Era. In: Sport and Leisure on Eve of First World War.
RJ. Lake, P. Wheeler, SJ. Eaves “Lawn tennis is bad enough, but golf is entirely ... damnable”: Assessing the Relationship between Golf and Lawn Tennis in the British Isles before the Great War. IJHS.
S. Eaves, RJ. Lake The Demise of Lawn Tennis in Ireland in the 19th Century: Bad Management, Bad Luck or Bad Homburg?. IJHS.
S. Eaves, RJ. Lake Analysing the Brief Rise to Prominence of Lawn Tennis in Ireland in the Late-19th Century. IJHS.
RJ. Lake, SJ. Eaves (2017). Defeat, Decline and Disconnect: A Critical Analysis of Attempted Reform in British Tennis during the Inter-war Period. Sport in History. 37(1),
SJ. Eaves, MD. Hughes, KL. Lamb (2008). Assessing the impact of the season and rule changes on specific match and tactical variables in professional rugby league football in the United Kingdom. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 8(3), pp.104-118.
SJ. Eaves, KL. Lamb, MD. Hughes (2008). The impact of rule and playing season changes on time variables in professional in rugby league in the United Kingdom. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 8(2), pp.44-54.
SJ. Eaves, G. Broad (2007). A comparative analysis of professional rugby league football playing patterns between Australia and the United Kingdom. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 7(3), pp.54-66.
SJ. Eaves, AL. Evers (2007). The relationship between the 'play the ball' time, post-ruck action and the occurrence of perturbations in professional rugby league football. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 7(3), pp.18-25.
SJ. Eaves, MD. Hughes, KL. Lamb (2005). The consequences of the introduction of professional playing status on game action variables in international northern hemisphere rugby union football. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 5(2), pp.58-86.
KL. Lamb, SJ. Eaves, JEO. Hartshorn (2004). The effect of experiential anchoring on the reproducibility of exercise regulation in adolescent children. Journal of sports sciences. 22(2), pp.159-165.
SJ. Eaves, MD. Hughes (2003). Patterns of play of international rugby union teams before and after the introduction of professional status. International journal of performance analysis in sport. 3(2), pp.103-111.
SJ. Eaves, T. Higgins (2019). Lawn Tennis in Ireland: The Untold History, 1870-1914. In: Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics.
RJ. Lake, SJ. Eaves (2019). Tennis and the Media: A History of Shifting Attitudes toward Tennis Journalism and Broadcasting. In: Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics.
RJ. Lake, DJ. Day, SJ. Eaves (2019). Coaching and Training in British Tennis: A History of Competing Ideals. In: Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics.
SJ. Eaves Coaching, Physical Training, and the Changing Landscape of Lawn Tennis: Australasia's Ascendency to Dominance in the pre-Great War Era. In: Sport and Leisure on Eve of First World War.
SJ. Eaves, P. Worsfold (2015). Notational Analysis for Rugby Football. C. Twist, P. Worsfold. In: The Science of Rugby. New York: Routledge, pp.190-200.
RJ. Lake, SJ. Eaves (2019). Making Play while the Sun Shines: The Forgotten Dominance of Irish Lawn Tennis in the 1890s. Madrid, Spain, 14/7/2019.
S. Eaves, RJ. Lake (2019). The Demise of Lawn Tennis in Ireland: Politics, Patronage, Personalities and Pitfalls. Madrid, Spain, 14/7/2019.
S. Eaves, RJ. Lake (2019). Ignored but not Irrelevant: The Brief but Momentous Rise of Irish Lawn Tennis in the 1890s. Boise, Idaho, USA, 24/5/2019.
S. Eaves (2018). The fight for lawn tennis dominance at the turn of the 20th century: a tale of two cities. AELTC, Wimbledon, 12/11/2018.
SJ. Eaves, RJ. Lake (2017). Dwight Filley Davis and the Foundation of the Davis Cup: Fact, Fallacy or Flimflam?. Worcester, 1/9/2017.
RJ. Lake, SJ. Eaves (2017). Anglo-American Relations and Expressions of “National Character” in Lawn Tennis Narratives around the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Worcester, 1/9/2017.
SJ. Eaves The Origins of the Davis Cup: ‘Dwight’s Pot’ or another Doubleday?. Crewe, Cheshire, 3/3/2017.
SJ. Eaves Leading Me a Merry Dance: Questioning the History of Time-Motion Analysis in Sport. Edinburgh, 2/9/2016.
SJ. Eaves (2016). Lawn Tennis: The Emergence of the Professional Player and Coach. Crewe, 11/3/2016.
SJ. Eaves Pre-Great War Lawn Tennis: Graceful Swan or Ugly Duckling?. Crewe, Cheshire, 26/2/2016.
SJ. Eaves (2015). Etiquette, obduracy and British tennis at the turn of the twentieth century: to coach or not to coach?. Crewe, Cheshire, 9/9/2015.
SJ. Eaves (2015). A history of statistics in sport: an examination of the facts. Swansea, 2/9/2015.
SJ. Eaves (2015). The coaching of Australasian tournament tennis players in the early twentieth century: It’s just not cricket!. Manchester Metropolitan University, 27/2/2015.
SJ. Eaves (2014). Australasian tennis’s indebtedness to the Farmers of Hereford. Leeds, 5/9/2014.
SJ. Eaves, S. Dormehl (2014). Developing a performance analysis system for freestyle swimming starts. Amsterdam, 2/7/2014.
SJ. Eaves (2014). The Doctor, the Barrister and the Wizard: The Making of Australasian Tennis Dominance in the Pre-Great War Period. Manchester Metropolitan University, 27/6/2014.
SJ. Eaves Victorian and Edwardian Journalists: Pioneers of Sports Notational Analysis?. BSSH, 6/9/2013.
SJ. Eaves The History of Sports Notation: Myth, Misconception, Misunderstanding and Mistakes. Crewe, Cheshire, UK, 22/6/2013.
SJ. Eaves “The Genial Doctor”: Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves. Glasgow, 7/9/2012.
SJ. Eaves, A. Hartshorne (2009). Performance profiling of elite modern association football referees. Lincoln, UK, 5/6/2009.
SJ. Eaves, M. Hughes (2003). Patterns of play of elite rugby league teams before and after the seasonal change. Lisbon, Portugal, 11/4/2003.
Journal of Sports Science; European Journal of Sports Science; International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, European Physical Education Review.
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