Jo Batey
Senior Lecturer
Business Law and Sport
Jo.Batey@winchester.ac.uk
01962 827069
Biography
Jo Batey is the Programme Leader for Sports Science and a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology. She has been teaching at the University of Winchester since 1998. Her undergraduate degree was in Sports Science and History and this was followed by an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Exeter University where she also lectured part-time.
Jo has been a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (Psychology) since 2005 and was integral in driving the creation of the Sport Science Consultancy Unit (SSCU) at the University. SSCU provides Sports Science support to athletes of all levels and Jo is the Sport Psychology lead within the Unit (see www.sscu.co.uk for further information). Jo is a very experienced practitioner who has worked within professional rugby union, national league hockey and academy football. She has also worked with individual performers in tennis, rowing, swimming, fencing, diving, athletics and mountaineering. Most notably perhaps, her current work includes being the practitioner for the Great Britain archery Olympic development squad who she has been attached to since 2010. Previous work has also included supporting the British Armed Forces in preparing for a World Record breaking attempt to be the first team to successfully traverse Mount Makalu in the Himalayas (see www.makalu2008.org for more information). As well as working within the sports performance domain Jo has also worked within the exercise psychology domain having been involved in evaluating the effectiveness of several local exercise and health interventions for both the NHS and the Primary Care Trust in Hampshire.
Expertise
Applied Sport Psychology
Psychology of Injury
Qualitative Research Methods in Sport
Publications
Book Chapters
Sparkes, A., Batey, J., & Owen, G. (2011). The muscled self and the dynamics of shame and pride: A bodybuilding life history. In A. Locks (Ed.). Critical Readings in Bodybuilding. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Batten, J., Batey, J., Birch, P., Gubby, L., & Shafe, L. (in press). The influence of reputation information on the assessment of undergraduate student work. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Sparkes, A. C., Batey, J., & Brown, D (2005). The muscled self and its aftermath: A life history study of an elite, black, male bodybuilder. Auto/Biography, 13, 131-160.
Bond, K. & Batey, J. (2005) Running for their lives: A qualitative analysis of the exercise experience of women recreational runners. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal.
Batey, J. (2002). Web Page Implementation and Cultural Change within a First Year Undergraduate Module. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, 1,1. www.http://hlst.ltsn.ac.uk/johlste
Conference Proceedings
Batey, J. (2010). Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone: Delivering Sport Psychology Differently. British Psychological Societies Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference Proceedings: London
Batten, J., Batey, J., Wright, J., & Ryan, H. (2010). Physical Activity and the Nintendo Wii: A Psycho-Physiological Approach. BASES Annual Conference Proceedings: Glasgow
Batey, J. (2006). From Building to Rebuilding: An Elite Bodybuilders Reflections upon Career-Ending Injury. Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science: Lausanne.
Batey, J., & Bond, K. (2003) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. In Stelter, R. (Ed.) New Approaches to Exercise and Sport Psychology – Theories, Methods and Applications. FEPSAC.
Research Interests
Jo’s research interests are diverse and generally operate within the qualitative paradigm. They include:
Applied sport psychology
Career ending injury
Transitions within sport
Pedagogical research
Experiences of women in sport
Funding Awards and Professional Membership
September 2011 – Successful Learning and Teaching bid to examine the influence of student gender and assumed ethnic origin on the assessment of undergraduate student work
September 2009 – Successful Learning and Teaching bid to examine the impact of reputation information on the assessment of undergraduate student work.
May 2009 – Successful RKE grant to undertake a project entitled Physical Activity and the Nintendo Wii: A Psycho-Physiological Approach.
March 2007 – Successful RKE grant gained to support and research the British Armed Forces Mount Makalu expedition.
September 2002 - Two consecutive HEIF awards which have funded two ongoing sport psychology intervention projects.
BASES member
ILT member