Dr Kelly Ashford

Kelly is a senior lecturer in Sport Psychology and Research Methods at Brunel University. She has been a member of the Brunel community for a number of years attaining her first class BSc (Hons) Sport Sciences degree from the institution in 2001, followed by her PhD in 2004, after which she joined as a member of staff. Since her appointment, she has taken on a number of roles and responsibilities including course leader for Sport Sciences and more recently, Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning).

Teaching

Module Leader

• SP1033: The Psychology of Sport and Personal Development
  
• SP1035 Analytical Skills in Sport and Physical Activity

Supervisor

• SP3022 Dissertation
  
• SP5023 MSc Dissertation

Research Interests

Kelly's research focuses on:

• Choking and the proposed underlying mechanisms of self-consciousness and reinvestment
• Attentional control and performance disruption
• The use of secondary and priming tasks to alleviate performance disruption

Research Centre

Publications

Journal Papers

(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) Ashford, KJ. and Jackson, RC., Priming as a means of preventing skill failure under pressure, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 32 (4) : 518- 536 Download publication

(2010) Kinrade, NP., Jackson, RC. and Ashford, KJ., Dispositional reinvestment and skill failure in cognitive and motor tasks, Psychology of Sport and Exercise 11 (4) : 312- 319

(2006) Jackson, RC., Ashford, KJ. and Norsworthy, G., Attentional focus, dispositional reinvestment, and skilled motor performance under pressure, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 28 (1) : 49- 68 Download publication

(2006) Lawrence, JC., Ashford, KJ. and Dent, P., Gender differences in coping strategies of undergraduate students and their impact on self-esteem and attainment., Active Learning in Higher 7 273- 281

(2005) Ashford, KJ., Karageorghis, CI. and Jackson, RC., Modeling the relationship between self-consciousness and competition anxiety, Personality and Individual Differences 38 (4) : 903- 918 Download publication

Conference Papers

(2008) Kinrade, NP., Jackson, RC. and Ashford, KJ., Dispositional reinvestment and choking in cognitive and motor tasks of varying complexity (Abstract), , Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (30) : S177-

(2005) Ashford, KJ., Karageorghis, CI. and Jackson, RC., Temporal patterning of anxiety and the attainment of flow among high and low self-conscious players (Abstract), , Journal of Sports Sciences (23) : 162-

(2004) Ashford, KJ., Karageorghis, CI. and Jackson, RC., Modelling the relationship between self-consciousness and competition anxiety (Abstract), , Journal of Sports Sciences (22) : 298- 299

(2002) Ashford, KJ. and Karageorghis, CI., Group cohesion as a predictor of state goal orientation among collegiate netball players (Abstract), , Journal of Sports Sciences (20) : 60- 61

Book Chapters

(2005) Ashford, K. and Capel, S., Starting to teach in the secondary school. In: Capel, SA. and Leask, M. eds. Starting to teach in the secondary school. Routledge -