Dr Laura Purdy
Purdyl@edgehill.ac.uk
Purdyl@edgehill.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer (Coach Education)
Sport and Physical Activity
Arts and Sciences
Qualifications:
PhD (University of Otago), MSc (University of Illinois), BRLS (Hons) (Brock University) , PGCert. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Biography:
My research focuses on high performance/elite sporting cultures and the everyday realities of coaches and athletes/players who operate in these contexts. Specifically, I look at the construction of, and relationship between, coaches’ and athletes’/players’ social worlds and identities.
