Shaun Williams

Rhondda. Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies, Teacher, Practitioner, Researcher @UniofBath views my own

[Sport, Education and Society Journal @SESJournal]

Latest Open Access 🔓 article in @SESJournal:

Using narrative biography to explore how the formation of ‘funds of knowledge’ mediate coach developer practice ...

By @SPWilliamS15 & @AntBushPCS

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https://t.co/F0X46Wx5a3

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Sharing new research around coach development, learning/practice. The other paper gives key insights from community sports based interventions detailing the importance of coaches for delivering meaningful change for young people.
https://t.co/qACmdiBNCz
https://t.co/hC1eqWF1ST

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Making the case for the pedagogue!
Supporting the professional sports coach in the workplace: presenting the pedagogue as the missing scientist https://t.co/icw1KJswR0

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@andyhowellsport Not enough. CE is largely a funding mechanism not a cost plus little worthwhile 'education' in coach 'education' due to myriad reasons. Its incumbent on NGB's to be field leading here, WRU should invest more heavily...reap what you sow

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Great opportunity here at Bath...

https://t.co/rqXvrRieOU

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

From https://t.co/97TOKUQ0XJ to this "a more streamlined use of data" in 12 months. Sounds like too much data confused the players and coaches trying to create too much certainty. Be interested to hear some reflexive thoughts from the 'superbrains' in the RFU review.

[Cody Royle @codyroyle]

We over-coach.

We over-analyze.

We over-schedule.

We over-think.

We over-explain.

Our thirst for certainty and control drives us to over-index on so many elements of performance that we end up squeezing the humanity out of what we do.

How do we change this dynamic?

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Thanks ex-student @Craig_Lilley1 speaking about his @bathrugbyacad vision, the long term development of players, positive learning environments/cultures, thinking tools for effective coaching practice. Great session for students to make links between practice and theory/research.

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Anyone else wonder how mechanistic life can be made for athletes? Recent data from a DoR (EP) “the GPS guy, he’ll say, ‘he can only run another three hundred metres’, mmm...im probably with Wittgenstein on this one, “Physiological life is of course not ‘life’…Life is the world”

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@HaydnMorgan2 Great work Haydn et al. 🙂

[Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism @tandfsport]

Don't miss out on contributing to this special issue from Sports Coaching Review exploring the dynamics and complex teaching and learning experiences within sport coach education. Find out more and submit: https://t.co/PoqTpQN3Fz @DrKuk14 @DrGearity

[University of Bath @UniofBath]

Some brilliant news for Bath in the 2021 @worlduniranking!

➡️One of the top 10 places in the world to study sport! 🏅
➡️ 14 subjects rated among the UK’s best courses 🇬🇧
➡️ 7 subjects in the top 100 rankings in the world 🌍

https://t.co/iW3cy9sc5V

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

Great insights into excellent learning environments, developing critical players through collaboration, holistic coaching strategies, and individual triggers with GB EDP coach @jody_paul10 Really thought provoking for our Applied Coaching Students 👍

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@markwatkins2107 @simonrug Yes but that £££ in wages. The WRU can pay a fraction of that for access. Allowing this pathway to work for them not rip it up but retain its enormous benefits whilst Eng clubs pick at the tab and expose players to a higher level across the board. Not eggs in 1 basket.

[Gary Slaymaker @TheSlay]

Thought for the day - Stonehenge was just a few lads from Pembrokeshire doing some flytipping.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

‘Very low’ risk of catching Covid while playing rugby, new study of rugby league shows - big boost to return of grassroots sport

https://t.co/GYgLhbO9Mt

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@simonrug @Aled_Lewis9 @PeterJones37 @scottbaldwin2 1) How English clubs respond to Welsh players being colonised by 60 cap rule remains to be seen 2) Huge development pathway for Wales players e.g. school, AASE, Uni's, academies, needs consideration if talented young welsh players denied this opp 3) Higher top end product

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@Davey1011 Metropolis? Moved Dai have u? 😂 Good to hear, catch up when the good times resume.

[Shaun Williams @SPWilliamS15]

@pitthams @WalesRugby Maybe, but too simplistic for believers to just state money. ExChiefs not biggest budget in Eur, not even Eng but success. If 20M plus yearly budget and equivalent (inflation) since 2003 produces the standard of rugby of late in Wales there are more rooted issues.