Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Cumming's current research focuses on community-based approaches to developing practical and culturally-tailored interventions for athletes and, more recently, individuals who are traditionally considered ‘harder to reach’. She is interested in how individuals learn to effectively regulate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours with mental skills training, and determine the impact of self-regulation (or dysregulation) on performance, health, and well-being. Whereas sport psychology customarily focuses on mental skills as a regulatory capacity that athletes use in competitive and non-competitive situations, she more broadly uses this knowledge to support health-related quality of life in communities that are more challenging to engage, such as homeless adolescents. Dr Cumming is the Primary Investigator of large funded study (2014-2020) to co-develop, co-implement, and co-evaluate the Mental Skills Training for Life™ programme as part of community-based participatory action research with a large supported housing service.

20022024

Research activity per year

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Georgia Bird

Person: Academic, Academic-related

Rachel Jordan

Person: Academic

Carolyn Roskell

Person: Academic

Maria Kavussanu

Person: Academic

Peymane Adab

Person: Academic

Andy Dickens

Person: Honorary

Sheila Greenfield

Person: Academic

Kate Jolly

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Holland Mark J. G.

  • Newman University

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M Law

  • University of Durham

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Thomas Mackman

  • University of Birmingham

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Sanna M Nordin-Bates

  • Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences

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Diane M. Ste-Marie

  • University of Ottawa

External person

Andrew P. Hill

  • York St John University

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Qing Tang

  • Zhejiang University

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Shannen Poulton

  • University of Birmingham

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Rose Martini

  • University of Ottawa

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J.R. Hibbert

  • Bournemouth University

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Emma Yoxon

  • University of Toronto

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Sophia Palin

  • University of Birmingham

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Michael J. Carter

  • University of Ottawa

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Amrita Dosanjh

  • University of Birmingham

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