Staff Profiles

Claire Mills

Course Leader of Sports Education
Senior Lecturer in Sports Education and Coaching

clairem@glos.ac.uk

Qualifications:

• BA (Hons) Sport and Human Movement Studies
• PGCE (Secondary) Physical Education
• MSc Sport and Exercise Science
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• PhD (in progress)

Module Leader:

• SPE102 Growth and Development
• SPE212 Practical 5: Aquatics

Module Team Involvement:

• SPE203 Science and Children’s Sport
• SPS201 Applied Sports Science II
• SPC201 Strength and Conditioning
• SI301 Coaching Science
• SI302 Contemporary Issues in Sports Education
• SS303 Contemporary Issues in Sports Science
• SI333 Dissertation
• PGCE (Secondary) Physical Education
• ASE406 Physiological Assessment
• PAP401 Promoting Physical Activity and Health

Sporting Profile:

• British Universities Netball Squad
• Welsh Universities Netball Squad
• British Colleges Basketball Squad
• British Colleges Volleyball Squad
• UWIC Netball Squad
• UWIC Basketball Squad
• Exeter City Swimming Club
• Exeter Rangers Ladies Football Club

Coaching Qualifications:

• WNA Netball Coach Level I and II
• FENA Grade C Umpire
• EVA Volleyball Coach
• EBBA Basketball Coach
• ASA Swimming Teachers Award
• AAA Athletics Coach
• BAGA Teachers Award for Gymnastics
• WRU Level I Junior Rugby Coach
• Preliminary Award in Training Speed, Agility and Quickness

Accreditation:

• International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry
• Sports Coach UK

Research Interests:

• Body Composition
• Childhood Obesity
• Schools Physical Education and Healthy Eating
  

Consultancy work:

Body Composition Assessment of Professional Football Clubs, plus a range of elite athletes (tri-athletes, cyclists, gymnasts, kick boxers and members of the British Ladies Hammer Team).

Collaborative Work:

Member of European Union South West Research Funding Project Healthy Children in Sound Communities


Publications:

Mills, C.D., and Matthews, N., (2009). Review of tutor feedback during undergraduate dissertations: A case study. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education.  Volume 8, Number 1.  pp. 108-116
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/hlst/documents/johlste/vol8no1/PP0211Format108to116.pdf

Mills, C.D., (2007). Review of tutor feedback during undergraduate dissertations. Case Study. Higher Education Academy.  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst/resources/detail/resources/casestudy_review_of_tutor_feedback 



Presentations:

Mills, C.D., (2007). Body Composition of Professional Footballers. Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care Conference. University of Gloucestershire

Mills, C.D., (2007). Methodological Considerations in the Assessment of Body Composition: A Pilot Study. University of Gloucestershire and University of Chemnitz Joint Research Conference. University of Gloucestershire.