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Dr Reece Chapman

Assistant Professor

School: Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation

Dr Reece Chapman is an academic member of staff who teaches primarily on the Sports Coaching (BSc) and Sport and Exercise Science (BSc) programmes. Reece's interests are aligned with sport coaching and specifically consider coaching through pedagogical and sociological lenses. Beyond this, Reece has first hand experience delivering Performance Analysis support to professional atheltes and thus teaches across northumbria Performance Analysis modules.  Reece is a qualified and practicing football coach and his academic qualifications include; a PhD (specifically considering football Coach Education), Fellowship to the Higher Education Academy, MSc Professional Practice in Sports Coaching Degree, and a PGCE.

Reece also supervises a variety of research projects at varing levels (i.e., Master and PhD level) which broadly consider coaching, coach education, coach development, sport pedagogy and football. 

Reece has experience of working at the coal face of different sporting spaces as both a coach/manager and performance analyst. These consist of various professional and grassroots football clubs. Reece has also worked alongside large National Governing Bodies (e.g., The FA, UK Coaching) and taught at all levels of the UK national Curriculum (e.g., primary education - higher education).

Reece Chapman

Reece’s research interests include; Sport Pedagogy, Sport Sociology, Coach Education, Coach Development, Sports Coaching, Football and Performance Analysis.

Reece's PhD saw him work alongside The FA to gain an understanding of the development of coach education since 1967. This work has tracked the socio-pedagogical development of FA coach education overtime. Reece has also explored present day coaches' experiences of current FA coach education provision to explore how courses meet the needs of the learners today.

  • BSc (Hons)
  • MSc
  • PGCE
  • Sports Science (Education) PhD
  • Fellowship to Higher Education Academy FHEA
  • UEFA B

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