Mr Richard Blair

From 2000 to 2006 Richard taught Physical Education in West London schools undertaking several different roles including; PE teacher, School Sports Coordinator and Manager of Teaching and Learning for Physical Education. He combined teaching with two part time roles; working as a football coach at a Centre of Excellence and delivering educational courses for the Football Associations (FA) National Faculty for Education. Prior to this he spent four years living and working in Long Island, New York.

In January 2006 Richard moved to Brunel University as a lecturer in Physical Education (PE). In August 2009 his role developed to lecturer in PE and Sports Coaching. Richard’s teaching responsibilities include lecturing on both undergraduate and post graduate courses in PE and undergraduate courses in Sport Science. He has taught modules in games activity, athletics activity, outdoor adventurous activity, educational studies, physical education and sports coaching and reflection in sports performance.

Presentations

Invited 4 June 2009, The Football League Trust inaugural conference – title ‘Sports Coaching as an Educational Enterprise’

Invited two presentations March / May 2008, The Real Tennis Coaches Forum – title Coaching Pedagogy

Income generation

The research in which Richard is engaged also lends itself to income generation through consultancy. Richard has just completed a year long conituning professional development (CPD) programme with The Football Associations Skills and Regional coaches.

Research Details

Richard is currently completing his doctorate research under the broad heading of ‘Sport Coaching as a Educational Enterprise’, with a specific focus on what additional knowledge, skills and understanding community football coaches need to work within England’s National Curriculum Physical Education. His broader research interests include; initial teacher education, teaching physical education in the 21st century, professional development and coach education.

Research Centre

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Blair, R. and Capel, S., Primary physical education, coaches and continuing professional development, Sport, Education and Society 16 (4) : 485- 505

(2008) Blair, R. and Capel, S., Intended or unintended? Issues arising from the implementation of the UK government's 2003 Schools Workforce Remodelling Act, Perspectives in Education 26 (2) : 105- 121

(2008) Blair, R. and Capel, S., The use of coaches in primary physical education to cover planning, preparation and assessment time: some issues (part a), Primary Physical Education Matters - Journal of the Association for Physical Education 3 (2) : 9- 11

(2008) Blair, R. and Capel, S., The use of coaches in primary physical education to cover planning, preparation and assessment time: some issues (part b), Primary Physical Education Matters - Journal of the Association for Physical Education 3 (3) : 5- 8

(2007) Capel, S. and Blair, R., Making physical education relevant: Increasing the impact of initial teacher training, London Review of Education 5 (1) : 15- 34 Download publication

Book Chapters

(2013) Capel, S., Blair, R. and Longville, J., Teaching to enable intended learning outcomes to be achieved. In: Capel, S. and Breckon, P. eds. A practical guide to teaching physical education in secondary school. London : Routledge

(2013) Capel, S. and Blair, R., Understanding your views about physical education and how this impacts on your teaching and pupils learning. In: Capel, S. and Breckon, P. eds. A practical guide to teaching physical education in secondary school. London : Routledge

(2013) Blair, R., Working with others. In: Capel, S. and Breckon, P. eds. A practical guide to teaching physical education in secondary school. London : Routledge

(2012) Blair, R. and Capel, S., Who should teach physical education in curriculum and extra-curricular time?. In: Capel, S. and Whitehead, M. eds. Debates in physical education. London : Routledge

(2012) Capel, S. and Blair, R., Why use a particular teaching strategy in physical education?. In: Capel, S. and Whitehead, M. eds. Debates in physical education. London : Routledge

(2010) Whitehead, M. and Blair, R., Designing teaching approaches to achieve intended learning outcomes. In: Capel, S. and Whitehead, M. eds. Learning to teach physical education in the secondary school: A companion to school experience. London : Routledge

(2006) Blair, R., Planning for pupils’ learning in broader dimensions of the curriculum 2, key skills and the use of information communication technology. In: Capel, S., Breckon, P. and O'Neill, J. eds. A practical guide to teaching physical education in secondary school. London : Routledge