Martin Tayler
Lecturer
School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law
Teesside University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Tayler graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1993 with a degree in Sports Science and completed his PhD at the same institution in 1998. He then spent time travelling and working in Australia, including a postdoctoral research fellow post at the University of Tasmania. Dr Tayler joined Teesside University in 2001.
Research Interest
Dr Tayler's main research interests currently revolve around the role of reinvestment in skill acquisition and the nature of expert-novice differences in sport. How performers acquire movement capability in sports and the role of sensation seeking in ‘risk takers’ also features in the research he is undertaking with his PhD students, details of which are shown below:
