Professor of Sports Performance Education
<p>Ben is Professor in Sports Performance Education. He originally established the Sport and Fitness qualifications at the Open University in 2007 including innovative practices, having previously lectured at Portsmouth and Southampton Solent Universities. Formerly he worked for a national governing body, the RYA, for 8 years as National Coach in windsurfing including attending the Seoul and Barcelona Olympic Games. His teaching expertise is in online learning including developing 100+ hours of badged and MOOC (FutureLearn) courses. These have been integrated into the development of the subject area at the OU including a distinctive approach to work-related learning.</p><p>His academic research originally focused on sport policy and in particular the development of elite sport systems in different countries. More recently he has supported coach CPD workshops and free badged open courses <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/exploring-sport-coaching-and-psychology/content-section-overview">Exploring sport coaching and psychology</a> and <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/communication-and-working-relationships-sport-and-fitness/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab">Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness</a>. His latest 2019 project has been co-authoring a National Lottery/Sport England funded<a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/coaching-others-coach/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab">Coaching others to coach </a> badged course for the coach developer workforce. Another digital course'Learning from athlete and coach burnout' is being launced this year. He sits on the Advisory board for the Applied Coaching Research Journal.</p><p>A further aspect of his roles was working across the Faculty as <em>Media fellow</em> in developing links between education, childhood, languages and linguistics academics and media output. He has been an academic consultant with the <em>BBC Olympic Dreams</em> programmes and <em>Channel 4's Chasing Perfection</em>. Ben has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 <em>Today</em> programme, numerous regional programmes and contributed to the BBC website. </p><p>In 2014 he pulled together existing research and the patterns of 25 sporting autobiographies into a book, <em>Podium: What shapes a sporting champion? </em>published by Bloomsbury - see <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/podium-9781472902160/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Professor Ben Oakley
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Professor Ben Oakley
Ben Oakley
<p>Ben is Professor in Sports Performance Education. He originally established the Sport and Fitness qualifications at the Open University in 2007 including innovative practices, having previously lectured at Portsmouth and Southampton Solent Universities. Formerly he worked for a national governing body, the RYA, for 8 years as National Coach in windsurfing including attending the Seoul and Barcelona Olympic Games. His teaching expertise is in online learning including developing 100+ hours of badged and MOOC (FutureLearn) courses. These have been integrated into the development of the subject area at the OU including a distinctive approach to work-related learning.</p><p>His academic research originally focused on sport policy and in particular the development of elite sport systems in different countries. More recently he has supported coach CPD workshops and free badged open courses <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/exploring-sport-coaching-and-psychology/content-section-overview">Exploring sport coaching and psychology</a> and <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/communication-and-working-relationships-sport-and-fitness/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab">Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness</a>. His latest 2019 project has been co-authoring a National Lottery/Sport England funded<a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/coaching-others-coach/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab">Coaching others to coach </a> badged course for the coach developer workforce. Another digital course'Learning from athlete and coach burnout' is being launced this year. He sits on the Advisory board for the Applied Coaching Research Journal.</p><p>A further aspect of his roles was working across the Faculty as <em>Media fellow</em> in developing links between education, childhood, languages and linguistics academics and media output. He has been an academic consultant with the <em>BBC Olympic Dreams</em> programmes and <em>Channel 4's Chasing Perfection</em>. Ben has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 <em>Today</em> programme, numerous regional programmes and contributed to the BBC website. </p><p>In 2014 he pulled together existing research and the patterns of 25 sporting autobiographies into a book, <em>Podium: What shapes a sporting champion? </em>published by Bloomsbury - see <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/podium-9781472902160/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p>