Dr Dan Bishop

Dan is a Researcher and Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, and the Programme Leader for the unique Business Studies and Sport Sciences programme. After obtaining his honours degree in Psychology, Dan completed his MSc in Sport & Exercise at The University of Exeter before attaining his PhD in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Brunel, thereafter taking up his current academic post in 2007. Dan has worked in the public and private sector, including work in local authorities, the National Health Service, investment banks, the health & fitness industry and Further Education. He is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Psychologist, registered to practice with the Health Professions Council, and is an Associate Fellow of the BPS. When he is not contributing to the University’s Teaching & Learning strategy, working with his students, conducting research, or spending time with his family & friends, he likes to run long distances, in the hope that he may still be able to better his marathon Personal Best of 2:44:33.

Roles

• Programme Leader, Business Studies and Sport Sciences
• University Senate Member
• University Disciplinary Panel Member
• External Examiner applications Reviewer
• PhD Internal Examiner, Abdulrahman Bassel (School of Engineering and Design)
• MPhil Internal Examiner, Michael Kouzaris (School of Sport and Education)
• PhD Supervisor for Dr Harry Lim, Mr Leighton Jones, Ms Hayley Barton
• Senior Tutor for Sport Sciences (September 2009 – August 2012)
• Chair, Mitigating Circumstances Panel (September 2009 – August 2012)
• Chair, Staff-Student Liaison Committee (September 2009 – August 2012)
• Sport Sciences Courses Committee Member
• School of Sport and Education Research Ethics Committee Member
• Internal Verifier, validation for MSc Management and MSc Marketing (Brunel Business School)
• External Verifier, BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching, University of Brighton
• Reviewer for Behavioral Research Methods, European Journal of Sport Science, International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Journal of Sports Science & Medicine, Music Performance Research, Psychology of Music, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Sport & Exercise Psychology Review, The Sport Psychologist.

Professional Memberships

• Member of the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance and the Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• • Founding Member, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section
  • Founding Member, Special Group in Coaching
• Founding Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Sport & Exercise Psychology
• BPS Chartered and Registered Practising Psychologist
• Health Professions Council Registered Practitioner Psychologist
• Full Member, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Dan holds a City and Guilds 7407 Certificate (Stage 1) in Further Education. He was the first member of academic staff to complete the Professional Development in Academic Practice here at Brunel; he is also is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has conducted research to examine the quality of visually impaired students’ experience at the University, attracting HEFCE-allocated funding (£19.3K) in doing so.

Dan currently leads two master’s-level modules on the MSc Sport Sciences (all pathways) and MSc in Sport & Exercise Psychology:

• SP5508: Research Methods and Data Analysis
• SP5521: Individual Differences in Sport and Exercise

He also delivers on the following master’s modules:

· SP5522: Advanced Research and Application in the Psychology of Sports Performance

· SP5535: Social Processes in Sport and Exercise

and on the following undergraduate modules:

· SP1033: The Psychology of Personal Development and Sport

· SP2017: Principles of Coaching Effectiveness

· SP3023: Applied Sport Psychology: An Individual Differences Perspective

Research Interests

Dan’s research interests began with his PhD programme, wherein he examined the emotional responses to music in young athletes; he collected affective, behavioural, and neuroimaging data in doing so. Although Dan has retained an active interest in the use of music in sport and exercise, as typified by his co-authorship of the 2012 BASES Expert Statement on the use of music in exercise, and his continued supervision of PhD students in the area, he has recently been integrally involved in the examination of the neural bases for expert-novice differences in anticipation skill, using fMRI technology; he is a member of the Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging and an Authorised User of the co-owned MRI scanner based at the Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC) to this end.

Dan’s current research interests have stemmed from this examination of perceptual-cognitive expertise in sport, to the investigation of crossmodal attention – most notably the effects of concurrently presenting information not only visually, but also in auditory and/or kinaesthetic modalities. He is also working collaboratively with colleagues at Brunel to examine the changes that occur during skill acquisition via action observation.

Research Centre

Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) Bishop, D., Wright, MJ. and Karageorghis, CI., Tempo and intensity of pre-task music modulate neural activity during reactive task performance, Psychology of Music

(2013) Bishop, D., Wright, MJ., Jackson, RC. and Abernethy, B., Neural Bases for Anticipation Skill in Soccer: An fMRI Study, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology

(2012) Karageorghis, C., Terry, PC., Lane, AM., Bishop, DT. and Priest, D., The BASES Expert Statement on use of music in exercise, Journal of Sports Sciences 30 (9) : 953- 956

(2011) Bishop, D. and Rhind, DJA., Barriers and enablers for visually impaired students at a UK higher education institution, British Journal of Visual Impairment 29 177- 195

(2011) Wright, MJ., Bishop, DT., Jackson, RC. and Abernethy, B., Cortical fMRI activation to opponents' body kinematics in sport-related anticipation: Expert-novice differences with normal and point-light video, NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS 500 (3) : 216- 221 Download publication

(2011) Karageorghis, CI., Jones, L., Priest, D-L., Akers, RI., Clarke, A., Perry, JM., Reddick, BT., Bishop, DT. and Lim, HBT., Revisiting the relationship between exercise heart rate and music tempo preference, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 82 (2) : 274- 284

(2010) Kinrade, NP., Jackson, RC., Ashford, KJ. and Bishop, DT., Development and validation of the decision-specific reinvestment scale, Journal of Sports Sciences 28 (10) : 1127- 1135

(2010) Wright, MJ., Bishop, DT., Jackson, RC. and Abernethy, B., Functional MRI reveals expert-novice differences during sport-related anticipation, NeuroReport 21 (2) : 94- 98

(2009) Bishop, DT., Karageorghis, CI. and Kinrade, NP., Effects of musically-induced emotions on choice reaction time performance, The Sport Psychologist 23 (1) : 59- 76 Download publication

(2007) Bishop, DT., Karageorghis, CI. and Loizou, G., A grounded theory of young tennis players’ use of music to manipulate emotional state, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology 29 (5) : 584- 607 Download publication

Conference Papers

(2007) Bishop, DT., Karageorghis, CI. and Loizou, G., A grounded theory of young tennis players’ use of music (Abstract), Annual Conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Abstract published in the Journal of Sports Sciences (25) : 291-

(2006) Bishop, DT., A grounded theory of young tennis players' use of music, BASES Annual Conference

(2009) Karageorghis, CI., Jones, L., Priest, DL., Akers, RI., Clarke, A., Perry, JM., Reddick, BT., Bishop, DT. and Lim, HBT., Revisiting the exercise heart rate-music tempo preference relationship, 2009 International Society of Sport Psychology World Congress on Sport Psychology

(2008) Bishop, DT., Ross, EZ. and Karageorghis, CI., Corticospinal excitability and motor neuron recruitment as a function of pre-performance music listening, North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Conference 2008 (NASPSPA 2008)

(2008) Bishop, DT., Wright, MJ., Jackson, RC. and Abernathy, B., Expert-novice differences in neural activation during a badminton anticipatory task, British Psychological Society Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference

(2008) Bishop, DT., Wright, J. and Karageorghis, CI., Neurophysiological correlates of tennis players’ emotional responses to pre-performance music, 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology

(2008) Neter, S., Kinrade, NP., Ross, EZ., Bishop, DT. and Goodall, S., Peak performance music videos as a tool for inducing arousal, BASES Annual Conference

(2008) Wright, MJ., Bishop, DT., Jackson, RC. and Abernathy, B., Perceptual skills in badminton: fMRI indicates differences in brain activation between expert and novice players, BASES Annual Conference

(2007) Bishop, DT. and Wright, MJ., Neurophysiological correlates of tennis players' emotional responses to pre-performance music, Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging Conference

(2007) Bishop, DT., Wright, MJ. and Karageorghis, CI., Neurophysiological correlates of tennis players' emotional responses to pre-performance music, European Federation of Sport Psychology Annual Congress

(2007) Bishop, DT., Using musically-elicited emotions to manipulate marathon pacing, European Federation of Sport Psychology Annual Congress

(2006) Bishop, DT. and Karageorghis, CI., Emotional responses to music in tennis: A mixed-methods approach, Music in Sport Conference

(2006) Bishop, DT. and Forzoni, R., The use of music video in sport psych interventions: empirical and anecdotal considerations, BASES Annual Conference

Book Chapters

(2008) Bishop, DT. and Karageorghis, CI., Managing pre-competitive emotions with music. In: Bale, JR. and Bateman, A. eds. Sporting sounds: Relationships between sport and music. London : Routledge 59- 84