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Dixon, AJ, Littlewood, MA, Cronin, CJ, Twist, C and Close, GL (2024) Understanding elite rugby league players' experience of collision, effective contact coaching techniques, and player contact psychology: A focus group study. Journal of Sports Sciences. pp. 1-8. ISSN 1466-447X

Mannix, P, Roberts, SJ, Enright, KJ and Littlewood, MA (2023) Surveying the youth-to-senior transition landscape in Major league Soccer: a new frontier. Science and Medicine in Football. ISSN 2473-3938

Sullivan, J, Roberts, S, McKeown, J, Littlewood, MA, Mclaren-Towlson, C, Andrew, M and Enright, KJ (2023) Methods to predict the timing and status of biological maturation in male adolescent soccer players: A narrative systematic review. PLoS One. ISSN 1932-6203

McGinty-Minister, K, Champ, FM, Eubank, ME, Littlewood, MA and Whitehead, A (2023) Stakeholder conceptualisations of mental health and mental illness in English Premier League Football academies. Managing Sport and Leisure. ISSN 2375-0472

Dempsey, NM, Cope, E, Richardson, D, Littlewood, MA and Cronin, CJ (2022) An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum. Sport, Education and Society. ISSN 1357-3322

Feddersen, NB, Morris, R, Storm, LK, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, DJ (2021) A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization. Journal of Sport Management, 35 (4). ISSN 0888-4773

Devaney, DJ, Ronkainen, NJ, Nesti, MS, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, DJ (2021) The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective. Sport Psychologist, 36 (1). pp. 29-39. ISSN 1543-2793

Andrew, M, Ford, PR, Miller, MT, McRobert, AP, Foster, NC, Seerden, G, Littlewood, MA and Hayes, SJ (2021) Bridging the Gap Between Science and Application: The Use of Cocreation Educational Workshops in Professional Youth Soccer. International Sport Coaching Journal. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2328-918X

Feddersen, NB, Morris, R, Ronkainen, N, Sæther, SA, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, D (2021) A Qualitative Meta-Study of a Decade of the Holistic Ecological Approach to Talent Development. Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3. pp. 24-39.

Dempsey, NM, Cope, E, Richardson, DJ, Littlewood, MA and Cronin, CJ (2021) Less may be more: how do coach developers reproduce “learner-centred” policy in practice? Sports Coaching Review, 10 (2). pp. 203-224. ISSN 2164-0629

Cranswick, I, Richardson, DJ, Littlewood, MA and Tod, D (2020) “Oh Take Some Man-up Pills”: A Life-History Study of Muscles, Masculinity, and the Threat of Injury. Performance Enhancement and Health, 8 (2-3). ISSN 2211-2669

Raya-Castellano, PE, Reeves, MJ, Littlewood, MA and McRobert, AP (2020) An exploratory investigation of junior-elite football coaches´’ behaviours during video-based feedback sessions. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 20 (4). pp. 729-746. ISSN 2474-8668

Feddersen, NB, Morris, R, Abrahamsen, FE, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, DJ (2020) The influence of macrocultural change on national governing bodies in British olympic sports. Sport in Society, 24 (9). pp. 1698-1714. ISSN 1743-0437

Morris, R, Feddersen, N, Richardson, DJ and Littlewood, MA (2019) The Emergence and Perpetuation of a Destructive Culture in an Elite Sport in the United Kingdom. Sport in Society. ISSN 1743-0437

Champ, F, Ronkainen, NJ, Nesti, MS, Tod, D and Littlewood, MA (2019) ‘Through the lens of ethnography’: Perceptions, challenges, and experiences of an early career practitioner-researcher in professional football. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. ISSN 2159-676X

Champ, FM, Nesti, MS, Ronkainen, NJ, Tod, DA and Littlewood, MA (2018) An Exploration of the Experiences of Elite Youth Footballers: The Impact of Organizational Culture. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 32 (2). pp. 146-167. ISSN 1041-3200

Finnegan, L, McArdle, J, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, DJ (2018) Somewhat united: primary stakeholder perspectives of the governance of schoolboy football in Ireland. Managing Sport and Leisure, 23 (1/2). pp. 48-69. ISSN 2375-0472

Dowling, C, Reeves, MJ, Littlewood, MA, Nesti, MS and Richardson, DJ (2018) Developing individuals whilst managing teams: perspectives of under 21 coaches within English Premier League football. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970

Reeves, MJ, Littlewood, MA, McRobert, A and Roberts, SJ (2018) A Scoping Review of the Potential Sociological Predictors of Talent in Junior-elite Football: 2000-2016. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1743-9590

Reeves, MJ, Littlewood, MA, Alistair, M and Roberts, SJ (2018) The nature and function of talent identification in junior-elite football in English category one academies. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1743-9590

Devaney, DJ, Nesti, MS, Ronkainen, NJ, Littlewood, MA and Richardson, DJ (2017) Athlete Lifestyle Support of Elite Youth Cricketers: An Ethnography of Player Concerns Within a National Talent Development Program. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. ISSN 1041-3200

Ronkainen, NJ, Ryba, TV, Littlewood, MA and Selänne, H (2017) ‘School, family and then hockey!’ Coaches’ views on dual career in ice hockey. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 13 (1). pp. 38-45. ISSN 1747-9541

Eubank, MR, Nesti, MS and Littlewood, MA (2017) A Culturally Informed Approach to Mental Toughness Development in High Performance Sport. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 48 (3). pp. 206-222. ISSN 0047-0767

Finnegan, L, Richardson, DJ, Littlewood, MA and McArdle, J (2017) The influence of date and place of birth on youth player selection to a National Football Association elite development programme. Science and Medicine in Football, 1 (1). pp. 30-39. ISSN 2473-3938

O'Halloran, L, Littlewood, MA, Richardson, DJ, Tod, D and Nesti, MS (2016) Doing descriptive phenomenological data collection in sport psychology research. Sport in Society. ISSN 1743-0445

Rennie, DJ, Vanrenterghem, J, Littlewood, MA and Drust, B (2015) Can the natural turf pitch be viewed as a risk factor for injury within Association Football? Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. ISSN 1878-1861