Biographical note

Robyn L. Jones is a Professor at the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, and a Visiting Professor (II) at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He has published in excess of 75 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters and 13 books on sports coaching and pedagogy. He is the author of Sports Coaching Cultures, The Sports Coach as Educator, and A Sociology of Sports Coaching. He is also the General Editor of the journal Sports Coaching Review. During the past 15 years, he has served as a coaching consultant for numerous sporting bodies including the Football Association (FA), the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and High Performance Sport New Zealand on their renowned ‘Coach Accelerator Programme’. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences, he is considered a leading international figure in both coaching scholarship and coach education.