Training Sports Officials' Communication: From a toolbox of skills to adapting appropriately to audience and situation
Book Chapter
Cunningham, I., Mascarenhas, D., & Simmons, P. (2024)
Training Sports Officials' Communication: From a toolbox of skills to adapting appropriately to audience and situation. In P. M. Pedersen (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication. (2nd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430278-41
Effective communication is essential to effective officiating. More than simply learning signals and instructions, officials across sports must adapt appropriately to numerous...
Building Knowledge of the Game to Make Effective Decisions
Book Chapter
Mascarenhas, D. R. D. (2024)
Building Knowledge of the Game to Make Effective Decisions. In T. Webb, D. J. Hancock, P. Phillips, & J. K. Tingle (Eds.), Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence (127-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003370987-15
This chapter provides a synopsis of the research into decision making, highlighting the different types of decisions that sports officials are confronted with. Focusing primar...
Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health
Journal Article
Carter, T. B., Gorczynski, P., Coady, C. J., Cunningham, I. J., Mascarenhas, D. R. D., Grant, M., Sullivan, P., Webb, T., Livingston, L. A., & Hancock, D. J. (2024)
Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 6, Article 1436149. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2024.1436149
Introduction: Sport officials are tasked with applying rules, maintaining fairness, and ensuring athlete safety. However, sport officials experience anxiety, burnout, and non-...
An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being
Journal Article
Barrow, C. J., Westbury, T., Cunningham, I., & Mascarenhas, D. (in press)
An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2326704
Research aim
The purpose of this research was to explore the views and experiences of international volunteer netball officials about their well-being and its contributing fac...
First-person video recordings with eye tracking glasses and cognitive task analysis as a framework for referee decision training
Journal Article
Mascarenhas, D., Birtwhistle, J., & Martindale, A. (in press)
First-person video recordings with eye tracking glasses and cognitive task analysis as a framework for referee decision training. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2022.2134186
Rationale
In comparison to players little is known about how sports officials integrate perception and cognition to manage in-game decisions.
Design
Using a naturalistic appr...
Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage
Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., & Mascarenhas, D. (2018)
Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 154-162. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.009
Communication is central to managing perceptions of fairness and performance in sport officiating. Most of the few studies that focus on sport official communication have been...
Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes
Journal Article
Richards, P., Collins, D., & Mascarenhas, D. R. D. (2017)
Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes. Sports Coaching Review, 6(1), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2016.1200819
This paper explores the complexity of developing decision- making (DM) skills in team sports. Research from the domains of motor control, perception and pedagogy ( Teaching Ga...
Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials
Journal Article
Mascarenhas, D., Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., & Redhead, S. (2015)
Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials. Movement and Sport Sciences - Science and Motricit茅, 87(87), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1051/sm/2014021
Abstract. o冒ciating, but player-o冒cial in- teraction is di冒cult to train and unresearched. This study interviewed team captains from di erent sports and used video elicitation...
Skilled interaction: Concepts of communication and player management in the development of sports officials
Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., Mascarenhas, D., & Redhead, S. (2014)
Skilled interaction: Concepts of communication and player management in the development of sports officials. International Journal of Sport Communication, 7(2), 166-187. https://doi.org/10.1123/IJSC.2013-0098
Communication and player management are integral to effective sport of ciating, but most research has focused on physical performance and decision making. The few previous stu...