Jonathan Males

Honorary Fellow
Photograph of Jonathan Males.

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Profile

Jonathan competed internationally and was twice Australian champion in slalom canoeing before graduating from the University of Tasmania with a first class BA (Hons) in Psychology in 1991. He then worked with the Australian Institute of Sport and coached the medal winning 1992 Australian Olympic team. He came to Britain in 1992 and began a PhD at the University of Nottingham, continuing his research into the role of emotion and motivation across a range of sports. Accredited by BASES since 1996, he was sport psychologist with the British Canoeing team through three Olympic campaigns from 1995 to 2004 and was the British Olympic Association’s HQ sport psychologist at the Athens Games. Recently he has worked with a range of NGBs as they engage with UK Sport’s Mission 2012, helping them develop their performance programmes for the London Olympics and beyond. His company Performance1 consults to a range of companies and public sector organisations on leadership and organisational development.

Research

Principal Areas of Interest:

Leadership (coach) influence on climate and performance, reversal theory as a map of individual motivation.

Staff Publications

Males, J.R., Kerr, J.H. (1996). Stress, emotion and performance in elite slalom canoeists. The Sport Psychologist, 10, 17-36.

Males, J.R., Kerr, J.H. & Gerkovich, M.M. (1998). Metamotivational states during canoe slalom competition: A qualitative analysis using reversal theory. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 10, 185-200.

Males, J.R. (1999). Individual experience in slalom canoeing. In J. Kerr (Ed.) Experiencing Sport; reversal theory. (pp. 101 – 127) Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Males, J.R., Kerr, J.H., Thatcher, J. & Bellew. E. (2006). Team process and players’ psychological responses to failure in a national volleyball team. The Sport Psychologist, 20, 275-294.

Males, J.R. (2006). Reflections on Athens; Delivering sport psychology provision at the BOA headquarters. Sport & Exercise Review, Vol 2 No 2, 12 – 16. Special Issues Reflections on Athens.