Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Associate Professor Tom Webb and Professor Camilla Knight.

Dr Tom Webb is an expert in the global management, leadership, operational environment and working practices of sports officials. Dr Webb has published extensively on sports officials, including two books and over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Tom's research interests concern the role of match officials in sport. Specifically, Tom founded the Referee and Match Official Research Network and has been awarded grants and funding from agencies such as UEFA, the Premier League, World Netball and the European Commission.

Dr Camilla Knight has been working at Swansea University for the last few years, after completing her BSc and MSc at Loughborough University, and PhD and postdoctoral position at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is also the lead of the Welsh Research Advisory and Evaluation group for the Child Protection in Sport Unit, a member of the Welsh Safeguarding in Sport Strategy Group, and the Youth Sport lead for the Welsh Institute of Performance Science. Camilla's research interests are concerned with understanding and enhancing the psychosocial experiences of children in sport, with a particular focus on the influence of parents.

Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10413200.2023.2286952?scroll=top&needAccess=true

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