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BA, MSc, PGCE, DocEd
Programme Leader MA/MSc Exercise and Sport
Member of Department of Exercise and Sport Science Ethics Committee
Lecturing on a range of level 6 and 7 units related to coaching and research method.
My research interests are varied, and include; the conceptualisation and critical deconstruction of professionalism in sports coaching, the professional learning of coaching practitioners, coaching in the 'risk society' and the growth of defences practices, and the use of critical sociology to examine coaching practice and coach education.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2016). Sports coaches as ‘dangerous individuals’—practice as governmentality. Sport, Education and Society. 21(2), pp.183-199.
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2010). The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance. Sport, Education and Society. 15(1), pp.121-139.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2015). Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching. WG. Taylor. Routledge.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2016). Sports coaches as ‘dangerous individuals’—practice as governmentality. Sport, Education and Society. 21(2), pp.183-199.
R. Fenoglio, W. Taylor (2014). From winning-at-all-costs to Give Us Back Our Game: perspective transformation in youth sport coaches. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 19(2), pp.191-204.
H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor (2013). Hands off! The practice and politics of touch in physical education and sports coaching. Sport, Education and Society. 18(5), pp.575-582.
H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor (2013). Child abuse, child protection, and defensive ‘touch’ in PE teaching and sports coaching. Sport, Education and Society. 18(5), pp.583-598.
D. Garratt, H. Piper, B. Taylor (2013). ‘Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique. Sport, Education and Society. 18(5), pp.615-629.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2012). touch and fear in physical education and sports coaching. Physical Education Matters. 7(2), pp.66-67.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2012). touch and fear in physical education and sports coaching. Physical Education Matters. 7(2), pp.66-67.
WG. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2012). touch and fear in physical education and sports coaching. Physical Education Matters. 7(2), pp.66-67.
H. Piper, B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2012). Sports coaching in risk society: No touch! No trust!. Sport, Education and Society. 17(3), pp.331-345.
WG. Taylor, IM. McEwan (2012). From interprofessional working to transprofessional possibilities: the new age of sports coaching in the United Kingdom. Sports Coaching Review. 1(1), pp.38-51.
R. Fenoglio, WG. Taylor (2012). From winning-at-all-costs to Give Us Back Our Game: Perspective transformation in youth sport coaches. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.
IM. McEwan, WG. Taylor (2010). ‘When do I get to run on with the magic sponge?’ The twin illusions of meritocracy and democracy in the professions of sports medicine and physiotherapy. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise. 2(1), pp.77-91.
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2010). The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance. Sport, Education and Society. 15(1), pp.121-139.
B. Taylor (2007). The emergence of the coach as a professional. CODE.
LA. Gale, WG. Taylor, MD. Cooke (2018). Mentoring in community sports coaching. In: F. Chambers (Ed). Learning to mentor in sports coaching: a design thinking approach. London: Routledge.
W. Taylor, R. Groom (2016). Advances in Coach Education and Development. W. Allison, A. Abraham, A. Cale. In: Advances in Coach Education and Development: From Research to Practice. Routledge, pp.41-50.
WG. Taylor, L. Collins (2016). Jack Mezirow. In: Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application.
H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor (2015). The Practice and Politics of Touch in Physical Education and Coaching. Routledge,
H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor (2015). Hands off! The practice and politics of touch in physical education and sports coaching. H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor. In: The Practice and Politics of Touch in Physical Education and Coaching. Routledge,
HJ. Piper (2015). Child abuse, child protection, and defensive ‘touch’ in PE teaching and sports coaching. H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor. In: The Practice and Politics of Touch in Physical Education and Coaching. Routledge,
D. Garratt, B. Taylor, H. Piper (2015). ‘Safeguarding’ sports’ coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique. H. Piper, D. Garratt, B. Taylor. In: The Practice and Politics of Touch in Physical Education and Coaching. Routledge,
IM. McEwan, WG. Taylor (2015). Professionalism and the adventure sports coach. M. Berry, J. Lomax, C. Hodgson. In: Adventure sports coaching. London: Routledge, pp.239-254.
H. Piper, W. Taylor, D. Garratt (2014). Hands-off PE Teaching and Sports Coaching in the UK. H. Piper. In: Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education. London: Routledge,
B. Taylor (2014). The West. In: English White Water. Pesda Press,
WG. Taylor (2014). The Analysis of Qualitative Data. In: Doing Research in Sports Coaching.
WG. Taylor, D. Garratt (2013). Coaching and professionalisation. In: Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching. pp.27-39.
WG. Taylor, D. Garratt (2013). The professionalisation of coaching. In: The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching.
WG. Taylor, D. Garratt (2010). The professionalisation of sports coaching in the UK: issues and conceptualisation. In: Science and theory in Practice. Open University,
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2010). The professionalisation of sports coaching: definitions, challenges and critiques. In: Sports coaching: Professionalism and Practice. Churchill Livingstone,
B. Taylor (2006). Coaching. In: British Canoe Union Coaching Handbook. Pesda Press,
WG. Taylor (2003). The West. In: English White Water.
B. Taylor, IB. Drew (2003). Hydrology for the paddler. In: English White Water. Pesda Press,
B. Taylor (2002). Coaching. In: Canoe and Kayak Handbook: Handbook of the British Canoe union. Pesda Press,
A. Consterdine, WG. Taylor, LA. Gale Power, control and politics in high-performance sport. Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 11/5/2018.
A. Consterdine, W. Taylor, LA. Gale ‘The case of Jess Varnish; cycles of power, resistance, and visibility’. Cardiff, UK, 6/9/2017.
P. Kolic, W. Taylor, N. Groom, L. Nelson The academic-ness of the UKCC CL4 award: Turning points, status passage and identity. Liverpool John Morse University, 31/7/2017.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor, . Groom, L. Nelson From outsider to insider (?) Ethnographic observations of high performance coach education programmes in the UK. Chichester, 30/8/2016.
WG. Taylor, P. kolic Professional ethics and being the knowledgeable other. Seattle, University of Washington, USA,, 21/6/2016.
WG. Taylor, IM. McEwan The use of video in sports coaching: a generational schism. Paper presentated at: SHAPE Amercian National Coaching Conference. Seattle, Washington University, USA, 21st -23rd June, 2016. Seattle, USA, 21/6/2016.
WG. Taylor Professional ethics and being the knowledgeable other. Seattle, USA, 21/6/2016.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor, NR. Groom, L. Nelson Coaches’ perceptions of formal elite coach education in the UK. Seattle, USA, 21/6/2016.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor, NR. Groom, L. Nelson The perceived value of the UKCC CL4 programme: Coaches’ perceptions and values. Ediburgh, UK, 8/3/2016.
I. Britton, NR. Groom, W. Taylor, L. Nelson (2015). An overview of the video-based performance analysis feedback literature: An EIS funded PhD. Sheffield, UK, 9/12/2015. pp.57-57.
P. Kolic, W. Taylor, L. Nelson, NR. Groom An evaluation of high-performance coach education in the UK (UKCC L4). Crewe, UK, 9/9/2015.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor, NR. Groom, L. Nelson High performance coach learning: Scoping and mapping the literature (2003 – 2014). Crewe, UK, 9/9/2015.
P. Kolic, NR. Groom, W. Taylor, L. Nelson High performance coach education: Scoping and mapping the literature (2003 – 2014). Vierumäki, Finland, 23/8/2015.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor, NR. Groom, L. Nelson, S. Collins High performance coach education: Scoping the literature (2003 – 2014). Vierumaki, Finland, 23/8/2015.
WG. Taylor, P. kolic (2015). Taylor, W. G. & Kolić, P. (2015) The Role of Nostalgic and Nostophobic Referencing in the Construction of Coaching Knowledge. Vierumaki Finland, 21/8/2015.
WG. Taylor, A. Consterdine, P. Kolic The Future of Professionalisation and the Sports Coach. Gloucester, 6/3/2015.
R. Fenoglio, B. Taylor (2009). Give us back our game: the anatomy of a youth sports movement. Vancouver, 10/11/2009.
B. Taylor, H. Piper, D. Garratt (2009). Hands off: coaching, presumed guilt and the politics of touch. Vancouver, Canada, 10/11/2009.
B. Taylor, I. McEwan (2009). Fields of disappointment: disempowerment and professional [re]positioning in elite sports medicine. Manchester Metropolitan University, 1/7/2009.
IM. McEwan, WG. Taylor (2009). Professional knowledge and shifting emplotments: a Bourdieusian analysis of practitioner discourse in elite sports medicine. Manchester Metropolitan University, 6/4/2009.
IM. McEwan, WG. Taylor (2008). Perceived barriers to interdisciplinary healthcare for World Class Performance athletes in UK. University of Glasgow, 7/7/2008.
IM. McEwan, B. Taylor (2008). Perceived barriers to interdisciplinary healthcare provision for world class performance athletes. University of Glasgow, 5/7/2008.
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2008). The professionalisation of sports coaching in the UK: a Foucauldian and Bourdieuian analysis. University of Illinois, 14/5/2008.
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2008). The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance.
B. Taylor, D. Garratt (2007). Professionalisation and the sports coach: some vignettes of experience. University of London,, 5/9/2007.
B. Taylor (2007). The experience of the professionalisation of coaches in the UK. Beijing Sport University, 31/8/2007.
B. Taylor (2007). Notions of professionalism: conversations with sport coaches. University of Brighton, 3/7/2007.
B. Taylor (2007). The effect of UKCC on coaching and coach education. Deception Pass, Washington, 7/4/2007.
B. Taylor (2006). Conversations with coaches: notions of professionalism. Liverpool John Moores University, 12/5/2006.
IM. McEwan, WG. Taylor Recasting the coach as a welfare agent: transprofessional possibilities in the age of new professionalism. Manchester Metropolitan university, 25/6/2001.
P. Kolic, WG. Taylor (2017). An examination of the UKCC Coach Level 4 Award: Interim report for British Canoeing. , British Canoeing.
NR. Groom, W. Taylor, L. Nelson (2015). Canoe England ‘Coaching Workforce Audit’. Canoe England, Canoe England.
W. Taylor, NR. Groom (2015). Review of Coaching Scheme Quality Assurance Procedures. FA Learning, The English Football Association.
B. Taylor (2009). Coaching audit report for England Hockey. Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre
External Reviewer
2012 FdD Coaching and Sport Development University of Cumbria (validation event)
2011 BSc Sports Studies, University of Abertay Dundee (quinquennial review)
2010 BA Physical Education, Leeds Metropolitan University (quinquennial review)
2008 BA Coaching Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University (validation event)
2005 Sports Studies Subject Review, UCLAN
Journal Reviewer - Sport, Education and Society, European Journal of Sport Science, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Journal for Coaching and Sport Science/ Guest Editor for special edition Sport, Education and Society
Grant Application Reviewer - The Wellcome Trust
Oct 2010 to Oct 2011
Economic and Social Research Council (RES-000-22-4156) 'No touch coaching – the politics of presumed guilt' With Prof Heather Piper (IoE, MMU) and Prof Dean Garratt (University of Chester). £100,000
June 2008 to Sept 2009
England Hockey 'Coaching audit for England Hockey' With Dr Liz Mallabon and Dr Helen Hooper (University of Cumbria), England Hockey, Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre. £25,000
April 2007 to December 2008
Sports Coach UK 'Report on The professionalisation of sports coaching in the UK: definition and conceptualization' Leeds: Sports Coach UK. With Dr Dean Garratt (University of Chester)
£7,000 (PI)