Jamie Taylor

Assistant Professor | Co|Ex Lab Lead | Coach Developer

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

🚨New paper🚨
Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences

@LiamSweeneyEP and Thomas Gretton

Open access below:

https://t.co/Fo5orXYKos

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

🔗To Paper

https://t.co/pqtzYshuQW

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

🚨 New Paper Published in Sport, Education & Society 🚨

Always ready to learn: understanding the learning biographies of expert academy football coaches

🔗 Open access in next post

In this paper, we explored how expert Premier League academy coaches develop over time, focusing on the experiences that have shaped their learning.

Our findings point toward the importance of informal, day-to-day learning. Across their careers, these coaches consistently:

•⁠ ⁠reflect critically on their practice
•⁠ ⁠develop a clear sense of purpose
•⁠ ⁠learn through others (both positive and negative influences)
•⁠ ⁠draw on a wide range of lived experiences

What stands out is how much learning happens in the everyday — through conversations, observation, considered experimentation, and making sense of daily experiences.

Overall, expertise seems to develop over time through an ongoing ability to adapt, grounded in reflection and experience. Hopefully this adds something useful to ongoing conversations around coach development and learning.

Mike Ashford @AineMacNamara_ @behan_s @simon_phelan @dannynewcombe Scott McNeill

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

Lots of people increasingly interested in Active Inference and Predictive Processing and trying to wrap their heads around the ideas for sport

The below is the clearest explanation of the theoretical ideas I've seen so far

*N.B. there is some heavy theoretical lifting here:

https://t.co/r9IpW9V60b

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

After seeing so much recent commentary on coaching performance from a distance, this article is a reflection on why coaching is so much easier to judge from the stand than do on the pitch

Thank you to @RTEBrainstorm for covering work from the Co-Ex|Lab: School of Health and Human Performance

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Why coaching is easier to judge from the stand than do on the pitch. What fans, onlookers and spectators think coaching involves often bears little resemblance to the job itself, explains @Jattaylor @shhp_dcu @DCU https://t.co/Exj5LlLdUi

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Why coaching is easier to judge from the stand than do on the pitch. What fans, onlookers and spectators think coaching involves often bears little resemblance to the job itself, explains @Jattaylor @shhp_dcu @DCU https://t.co/Exj5LlLdUi

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

A thoughtful thread on the application of neuroscience at the pedagogical level

[Héctor Ruiz Martín @hruizmartin]

El otro día, un ente público me invitó a un congreso sobre “Neurociencia y Educación”. Al ver el programa de años anteriores, les dije que, si acudía, querría hablar sobre neuromitos muy habituales en estos foros educativos. Y claro,… ⬇️

[Áine MacNamara @AineMacNamara_]

Join our upcoming webinars to discover the part-time and online (blended) MSc and Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance @DcuPerformance

🗓 Feb 25, 2026
⏰ 6:00
👉 https://t.co/RwuP9ELlL5

🗓 Mar 11, 2026
⏰ 12:00
👉 https://t.co/vAJbOvj0Sa

https://t.co/nAn5yyDc7Q

[Matthew Layton @matt_layton5]

🚨New Publication 🚨 with @DCGreyMattersUK & @Jattaylor investigating Discriminating capacities of physical performance testing in male soccer academy programmes.

Open access via the link below, check it out 👇🏻

https://t.co/soXwNdmB2p

@SageJournals

[Donald Clark @DonaldClark]

Chiles is an idiot but really? What staffroom would have this FICTION on their wall?
https://t.co/TmsSvpGvUk
Why it is bogus....
https://t.co/UKg6u6uHCk

[Áine MacNamara @AineMacNamara_]

If you are ready to drive change in your field, applications are now open for the Professional Doctorate and MSc in Elite Performance @DCU @DcuPerformance

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a 2026 application

https://t.co/8aBOp2vkGP
https://t.co/vFigjf44ME

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

A fascinating conversation with Scottie Scheffler for anyone interested in skill acquisition in the real world

https://t.co/YkWou02mMq

[The Sideline Live @thesidelinelive]

Exciting times ahead at the CoEx Lab in @DcuPerformance

Brilliant evening at the launch learning about the research that is taking place and insights to come down the line!

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

Enjoying reading the work of Hasok Chang - lovely example of multiple theories being used in practic

Enjoying reading the work of Hasok Chang - lovely example of multiple theories being used in practice

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches

Rewitz et al.

https://t.co/TybfPnL6UT

[Jamie Taylor @Jattaylor]

Testing for an Optimal Task Difficulty of Skill Acquisition in Golf Putting

Yamada et al.

https://t.co/VUAt7yXZrO

[Training Ground Guru @ground_guru]

Coaches: do you design sessions specifically to develop perception & cognition in your players?

Or do you rely on the game to be the teacher?

@HarrisonK1986 & @Jattaylor have conducted a study looking into the differences between the 2 approaches.

👇

https://t.co/ZCQp7cpCsS

[Training Ground Guru @ground_guru]

Awareness, anticipation and decision-making are some of football’s most important qualities. But how often do coaches specifically train these skills?

This is what Reading PDP Lead @hgilkes94 & @Jattaylor set out to explore.

https://t.co/ZCQp7cqaiq

[Steph Brennan @sjb_coaching]

Are you the parent of a Hockey player aged 16-21 currently involved in the @irishhockey National Performance Pathway? Let us know your experiences of being a parent of a player in the pathway, and help shape the future… (1/2)

[DCU_Performance @DcuPerformance]

Congratulations to @IanCostello1 on a great defence of his Prof Doctorate thesis: A multistakeholder perspective of alignment, coherence & integrated strategy at various stages of an elite rugby pathway.

Thanks to Ian Sherwin and Robin Taylor for examining

Well done Ian!

[DCU_Performance @DcuPerformance]

Congratulations to Amy Shelley on a fantastic defense of her PhD Investigating the English male rugby talent system

The PhD was in collaboration with @Premrugby and thanks to @AdamKelly07, Sarahjane Cullen and Goss for a really constructive viva.

Well done Amy!