In the second Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Martin Turner.

Martin is a very experienced academic, researcher and practitioner – with specific interests in challenge and threat states in athletes, and the use of REBT with athletes.

On the applied side Martin has worked across football, cricket, rugby, cycling, archery, shooting, and equestrian. He also provides performance psychology to business professionals. He’s the Lead Sport Psychologist for England Futsal and his work with athletes has included seasons at Nottingham Forest FC Academy, Nottingham County Cricket Club Academy, Staffordshire County Cricket Club Academy, and Stoke City Football Academy.

We talk about one of his latest papers on the use of REBT with sales professionals (link below) and broaden the conversation into wider REBT tenets.

You can follow Martin here:

Social networks:
https://twitter.com/DrMJTurner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-martin-turner-828b766b/

The Books:
1) The Rational Practitioner (2022, the one with the Dragon) https://www.routledge.com/The-Rational-Practitioner-The-Sport-and-Performance-Psychologists-Guide-To-Practicing-Rational-Emotive-Behaviour-Therapy/Turner/p/book/9781032060408

2) REBT in Sport & Exercise (2020) https://www.waterstones.com/book/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy-in-sport-and-exercise/martin-turner/richard-bennett/9780367407803


The REBT & Sales paper:
When not making your sales target is "the end of the world" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smi.3391

Another year, and another Slice of PIE first.

We get to speak to Niels Feddersen, Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Science - and we get to speak to him at two points in time ! First in 2020, during his move from Denmark to Norway, and then again in 2023 - where we have a conversation and reflection on the first conversation ! I can't take credit, it was Niels' idea...

We talk about some of his important research studying sporting organisations and their cultures, and slingshot into multiple interesting threads concerning values, societal changes, the tipping point for speaking up, social bubbles and organisational consensus on what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour - among many other topics.

You can follow Niels here:

Social networks:
https://twitter.com/niels_moving
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsfeddersen/?originalSubdomain=no

Norweigan School of Sport Sciences:
https://www.nih.no/english/about/employees/nielsbf/

Email address:
nielsbf@nih.no

For all of those interested in the topic of organisational life in sports organisations, see below.

These are the papers underpinning our conversations, but more to come!

Large scale culture changes
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2020.1771306

Power in organisations
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2020-0119

Destructive/Toxic Cultures
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2021-0077
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2019.1680639

Slice of PIE is back with some exciting personal and professional news.

We also get to speak to Dr. Jamie Barker, former chair of the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology (DSEP) and 'Pracademic' with over 20 years of experience.

In this episode we dig into his experience working with the British Paralympics team in Rio, and from working in sport to business to the military and many other performance environments.

Jamie is also the author of multiple books including The Psychology of Soccer: More Than Just a Game - which came out in 2020, in partnership with Joe Dixon, Richard Thelwell and Ian Mitchell (see link below).

Jamie is also one of the nicest blokes around, and kindly gave enough time to fill two episodes’ worth of insight and experience. This is 'part two' of our conversation.

You can follow Jamie here:

Social networks:
https://twitter.com/DrJamieBarker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jamie-barker-1154a12b/

Loughborough University Profile:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/jamie-barker/

Link to work with the RAF:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/national-rehabilitation-centre/news/developing-veterans-resilience/

The Psychology of Soccer: More Than Just a Game
https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Soccer/Dixon-Barker-Thelwell-Mitchell/p/book/9780367350284

Upcoming book: The Psychology of Golf Performance Under Pressure
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7093506674430197760?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7093506674430197760%29