Biography

Dr Charlotte Woodcock’s research interests intersect health, sport and exercise psychology with a specific interest in self-regulation processes that contribute to improvements in health, wellbeing and goal pursuits. Charlotte’s PhD and applied consultancy work in sport, exercise, and performance psychology involved developing and delivering psychological skills training programmes for young athletes and performers to successfully adapt to stressful environments, manage anxiety, and develop confidence. Recently, her research has focused on environmental influences of motivation regulations and the quality of young peoples’ involvement in community-based activity programmes.

In 2019, Charlotte joined Keele University to translate her sport and exercise psychological expertise to primary care research and apply knowledge to broader health populations. In her role as Lecturer in Applied Health, she has led on the development, data collection, analysis and dissemination of an online discussion forum for persistent pain patients as part of a 5-year NIHR funded project called PROMPPT. She is also a qualitative researcher for the iPOPP trial, funded by Versus Arthritis, exploring how older people living with joint pain can be best supported to increase their physical activity levels.

Research and scholarship

Dr Woodcock’s research focuses on a wide variety of areas relating to Sport and Exercise Psychology from practitioner professional development, psychometric questionnaire design and validation, and psychosocial factors associated with performance enhancement and well-being. Throughout her career she has developed multimethod skills often incorporating the strengths of both research approaches into her work.

Teaching

• Qualitative research methods
• Sport and exercise psychology
• Behaviour change
• Undergraduate and postgraduate supervision

Further information

Dr Woodcock regularly reviews for international journals such as the European Journal of Sport Science and The Sport Psychologist.