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PgCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Manchester Metropolitan University (2017).
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017).
PhD, Understanding community coaches' experiences of everyday coaching practice: A narrative-biographical study. The University of Hull (2014).
Postgraduate Training Scheme (Research), The University of Hull (2011).
BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Performance, The University of Hull (2010).
Lecturer in Sport and Physical Activity: Leeds Trinity University.
Research Assistant: Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lecturer in Sports Coaching: Bishop Burton College P/T (HE).
Lecturer in Sports Coaching: Hull College P/T (HE).
Swimming Coach: East Riding of Yorksire Council (P/T).
Community Disability Youth Worker: Barnardo's (P/T).
Deputy Programme Leader BSc(Hons) Sport: Coaching and Development
FdA and FdSc Link Tutor for the collaborative programmes the Department validates for FE colleges in Manchester.
The Faculty Academic Quality and Standards Committee Member.
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Unit Leader for Introduction to Coaching Practice (L4).
Unit Leader for Active Enviroments and Behaviour (L6).
Working in High Performance Sport (L6).
Project Supervisor (L6).
Unit Leader for Issues in Pedagogy (L7).
Project Supervisor (L7).
PhD Skeen, R. (In progress). Mentoring in Community Sport Coaching. University of Gloucestershire (Co-Supervisor).
PhD Hobbs, C. (In progress). An ethnographic study into active campus initiatives in higher education. Manchester Metropolitan University (Co-Supervisor).
PhD Consterdine, A. (Completed 2020). Power, control and micro-politics within elite track and field athletics in the UK. Manchester Metropolitan University (Director of Studies).
MRes Haviland, N. (Completed 2018). Understanding healthy lifestyles: a phenomenological and sociodemographic exploration of parental and child perceptions. Manchester Metropolitan University (Co-Supervisor).
Dawson, R. (2017). MSc. A novice strength and conditioning coach’s experiences of the complex and contested nature of working in professional sport. University of Hull.
June 2018 - External panel member - Sheffield Hallam University / collaborative validation panel: collaborative partner Stockport College (FdSc Sport Coaching).
B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Gale, L. Nelson (2021). Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge.
LA. Gale, B. Ives (2019). Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight. Manchester Metropolitan University.
L. Nelson, P. Potrac, D. Gilbourne, A. Allanson, LA. Gale, et al. P. Marshall. (2013). Thinking, Feeling, Acting: The Case of a Semi-Professional Soccer Coach. Sociology of Sport Journal. 30(4), pp.467-486.
B. Ives, P. Potrac, LA. Gale, L. Nelson (2021). Introduction. In: B. Ives, P. Potrac, LA. Gale and L. Nelson (Eds.), Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge.,
L. Gale, B. Ives, L. Nelson, P. Potrac, MD. Cooke (2021). Trust and (Dis)trust in Community Sport Coaching. In: Community Sport Coaching. Routledge, pp.253-265.
L. Gale, B. Ives, L. Nelson, P. Potrac, MD. Cooke (2021). Trust and (Dis)trust in Community Sport Coaching. In: Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge., pp.253-265.
B. Ives, L. Nelson, L. Gale, P. Potrac, C. Johnston (2021). Emotions, Emotion Norms, and Emotion Management in Community Sport Coaching. In: Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge., pp.224-239.
P. Potrac, B. Ives, L. Gale, L. Nelson, CT. Morgan (2021). Community Sport Coaching and Impression Management. In: Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge., pp.210-223.
B. Ives, L. Gale (2019). Foreword. In: In: LA. Gale and B. Ives (Eds.), Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and Insight. Manchester Metropolitan University,
L. Gale, B. Ives (2019). Emotional struggles and troubled relationships. In: In LA. Gale and B. Ives (Eds.), Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight. Manchester Metropolitan University.
B. Ives, LA. Gale, P. Potrac, L. Nelson (2019). The Interplay between Identity and Emotion in Community Sport Coaches Work. In: In C. Corsby and C. Edwards (Eds.), Exploring research in sports coaching and pedagogy: Context and contingency. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.,
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.
J. Toner, A. Moran, L. Gale (2016). Jean Piaget: Learning and the stages of athlete development. In: Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application. pp.89-100.
B. Ives, L. Gale, L. Nelson, P. Potrac (2016). Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport. K. Green, A. Smith. In: Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport. Routledge, pp.559-569.
A. Consterdine, WG. Taylor, LA. Gale Power, control and politics in high-performance sport. Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 11/5/2018.
B. Ives, LA. Gale, P. Potrac, L. Nelson “I just wanted to snap”: Exploring anger in community sports coaching. Cheshire, UK., 25/4/2018.
B. Ives, L. Nelson, P. Potrac, LA. Gale ‘Enacting Sport Policy: A community sports coaches lived experience of zero hours contract work’. Plymouth, UK, 17/11/2017.
LA. Gale, B. Ives, P. Potrac, L. Nelson ‘Exploring Trust, Distrust and Trustworthiness in Community Sport Coaching’. Gloucestershire, UK, 8/9/2017.
B. Ives, LA. Gale, P. Potrac, L. Nelson ‘Identity and Emotion in Community Sport Coaches Work’. Cardiff, UK, 6/9/2017.
A. Consterdine, W. Taylor, LA. Gale ‘The case of Jess Varnish; cycles of power, resistance, and visibility’. Cardiff, UK, 6/9/2017.
LA. Gale, P. Potrac, L. Nelson, B. Ives 'Surviving austerity' community sport coaches' understandings of workplace relations'. Manchester, UK, 16/3/2017.
C. Mackintosh, B. Ives, L. Staniford, LA. Gale, A. Thompson, et al. D. Sims, J. Daniels, S. Oldfield, P. Kolic. COVID-19 Research Report: The impact of the Pandemic on Community Sport provision and participation.
Reading Football Club Community Trust: 'Social Impact Report'. Discussion of findings to the clubs trustees. 6/9/19.
Greater Sport Manchester: 'Covid-19 research study: implications for Greater Sport Manchester'. Discussion of findings. 3/2/21.
Member of the Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC) Steering Committee (2020 - ongoing).
Lead conference organiser for CRiC Coaching in the Community Symposium: 'unpacking the challenges, tensions, and realities of the community sports coaching profession' April 2018.
Sports Coaching Review
Applied Coaching Research Journal (UK Coaching)
Managing Sport and Leisure
International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching
Completed Funded Research Projects:
April-2020 - Dec-2020 'The Impact of Covid-19 on the Sport and Physical Activity Sector in the North of England' Christopher Mackintosh (PI), Anne Thompson, Laura Gale, Ben Ives, John Daniels and Leanne Staniford (CI)
Feb-2019 - November 2019 - Reading Football Club Community Trust: 'Social Impact Report' Ben Ives (PI), Laura Gale and John Daniels (CI).
Report Contributor For Completed Funded Research Projects:
April 2015 - Canoe England 'Coaching Workforce Audit'.
March 2014 - Sport England 'Volunteer Insight'.
December 2020 - Sport England 'The impact of Covid-19 on the Sport and Physical Activity Sector in the North of England'
Podcast: Episode 3 with 'Coaching With an Accent' on soundcloud station: https://soundcloud.com/user-532650358 discussing @CRiC_2018 event.