Costas Karageorghis

Biography

Dr Costas Karageorghis is a reader in sport psychology and has an international reputation for his research into the psychophysical and ergogenic effects of music. He is the author of 40 peer-reviewed and 80 professional articles in sport and exercise psychology. Costas has also made 60 conference presentations for which he has won several awards. He has given numerous invited presentations at national and international conferences, including five keynote speeches. His work has been featured in newspapers around the world; most recently, in The Times, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Costas has completed several industrial projects that include work with Nike Inc. on the Portable Sport Audio MP3 player, Bio-Medical Research Ltd. on the Mentor behavioural screening programme and David Lloyd Leisure Ltd. on the development of a music policy for their chain of health clubs. Currently, he is the principal investigator on the Music-in-Rehab Project which has been funded under the HEIF-4 scheme. Costas is also leading a consultancy project with the International Management Group and Sony Ericsson that involves coordinating live music with mass participation running events – Run to the Beat (see: www.runtothebeat.co.uk). He is presently working on a roll-out of the Run to the Beat concept across mainland Europe.

Costas is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society and a double-accredited member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (psychology research and scientific support). Since May 2007 he has been head coach of the Great Britain Students athletics team. He acts as consultant psychologist to a number of international and professional athletes and has worked with a wide variety of UK governing bodies of sport (e.g. UK Athletics, British Canoe Union, British Water Ski Federation and England Hockey).

Costas has managed and coached the Brunel Athletics Team since the early 90s. During this time, the team have won six British Universities championships and, most recently, became 2009 men’s and women’s national indoor champions. In November 2004 he was made Honorary Life President of Brunel University Athletics Club and, in March 2008, Vice-President of Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletics Club.

Costas recently released a Run to the Beat CD (www.totalfitnessmusic.com/bestsellers/256) and completed a book entitled Head Strong: The Art and Science of Applied Sport Psychology (Human Kinetics) that is co-authored by Prof Peter Terry (University of Southern Queensland). Costas also contributed three music-related chapters to the text Sporting Sounds (Routledge 2009) as well as chapters in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Hodder Education 2008) and Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Cutting Edge (Fitness Information Technology 2010). In his spare time, Costas enjoys playing the piano and often performs in a jazz trio with vocalist Charlotte Barnard and trumpeter John Buckley.

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