Previous Events

Join us at the 6th International Coaching Conference 14th-16th June 2024 at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.  Conference overview #CRiC2024 will gather the world’s leading academics, policy makers and practitioners as we explore the conference’s driving theme: “imaginative intersections between critical coaching scholarship and practice.” #CRiC2024 will provide an important platform to not only further our understanding of sports […]

With generous support from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, the Cluster for Research in Sport Coaching (CRiC) will meet for a coaching research symposium on Monday 12 June.

Session 1: ‘CRiC past, futures, and possibilities’ with Dr Bill Taylor In this session, Dr Taylor provided a general introduction to the day including a brief history of CRiC and how we got to this point.  Dr Taylor also discussed the relationship between CRiC and Sports Coaching Review.  The main component of this session called

Hosted by the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Worcester, the 5th International CRiC conference took place over two days. Yet again, the conference attracted delegates from a broad range of disciplines including pedagogy, sociology, history, and sports law to create an exciting cross-disciplinary programme. This vibrant inter-collegiate atmosphere and collaborative

On the 25th of April 2018, Manchester Metropolitan University (Cheshire Campus) and Buckinghamshire New University hosted the first CRiC Coaching in the Community one day symposium Organised by Dr Laura Gale and Dr Ben Ives, this event built on a strong foundation of conferences previously delivered by CRiC. The day provided an important platform for academics,

In 2017, Cardiff Metropolitan University hosted the fourth CRiC International Coaching Conference at Cyncoed Campus, Wales. The event attracted leading scholars from across the UK and internationally, and welcomed keynote speakers Professor Paul Potrac and Professor Lars Tore Ronglan. The event provided a significant platform for networking and dissemination amongst the community of sports coaching

The third iteration of the CRiC biannual international coaching conference took place at MMU in Crewe, Cheshire, England over the 9th and 10th September 2015. Building on past CRiC conference successes, this event attracted most of the leading UK scholars researching into coaching politics, behaviours, policy, the history of coaching, and a number of other

First biannual international coaching conference 2011 The Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC) arose in 2010 within the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) Crewe. Keen to gather like-minded academics interested in sports coaching, a decision was made in 2011 to organise the first CRiC conference. The aim of this was