Aine Macnamara
School of Sport and Wellbeing
University of Central Lancashire
United Kingdom
Biography
Aine joined the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors in January 2010 and is currently the course leader for the Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance. Her research focuses on sport psychology and particularly talent development processes in sport and other performance domains. As an applied sport psychology consultant she has worked with a variety of elite and development level performers across different domains.
Research Interest
Aine is research active within the area of sport and exercise science.
Publications
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MacNamara, Ã., & Collins, D. (under review). A Biopsychosocial perspective on Talent Development, Hume’s Law and avoiding ‘Obvious’ Answers. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
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MacNamara, Ã., & Collins, D. (in press). Do mental skills make champions? Examining the discriminant function of the psychological characteristics of developing excellence questionnaire. Journal of Sports Sciences.
