Dr Alex Twitchen

Professional biography

Alex is an experienced coach and coach developer with a passion for understanding and exploring how coaches learn and improve their practice. Increasingly Alex in exploring the application of child-rights to coaching and the extent to which rights underpin safe practice. Alex also has an interest in motor sports and completed his PhD thesis examining the history of safety in motor racing.

Research interests

Alex has research interests in:

1. Coach learning and development: process, systems and theories

2. Coaching practice and behaviours

3. Children's rights in sport

4. Motor sports

Teaching interests

Coaching practice and coach learning and development.

The sociological study of sport.

Impact and engagement

Alex has worked for a number of national bodies principally in designing curriculum and quality assurance processes around coach learning and development.