Dr Rhonda Cohen

Enterprise and Engagement Manager (LSI)

Rhonda Cohen

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department London Sports Institute

  • Location London

Research activities

My research interests are in the psychology of extreme sport, classifying and defining extreme sport ,  and risk and sporting performance in extreme sport , and psychology of physical activity and fitness including Dementia and Parkinsons. 

BPS Supervision of trainee Sport & Exercise Psychologists 

Sam Cumming - British Rowing and now Head of Mental Health in UKSI ( formally EIS) . awarded chartered status. 

Dr. Fram Longstaff - FIKA. UHERTS , formerally MDX and BR Rowing .awarded chartered status 

Katie Evan Jones - awarded chartered status 


Current Teaching

Teaching on the MSc Sport Exercise Psychology in specialist areas and with the MSc Exercise and Physical Activity with Special Populations area. 

Post Graduate Supervision 

A. Elliott - A multi-method investigation into Physical Activity in Middlese Age through A Life Course perspective ( PhD awaraded July 2016) 

F. Fazeli -A study into Parents perception of Physical Activity, Weight status, Fundamental Movement Skills , and Obesity in Children . A trasncultural study . ( PhD awarded 2022) 

Tija Hubej -Supporting and Developing Carers who work with thos with Dementia ( Viva in 2024) 

D.Holmes - Mental Health in Professional Footballers (transfer passed in 2022) 

Bushra Ali - Enhancing Physical Activity - A Transculutrual Study  ( transfer due in 2024)

Stephen Orwin - Physical Activity and Parkinsons in care homes (transfer due in 2024/5) 


Biography

I am a Sport and Exercise Psychologist under the protected title (British Psychological Society) which is regulated by the Health Care Profession Council . 

I belong to the BPS Division of Sport Exercise Psychology and the Division of Coaching Psychology, as I am a NLP Life coaching practitioner. I am a chartered BPS Psychologist (CPsycol) ,chartered scientist (CSci) Associate Fellow of BPS (AFBPsS) , Registered of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS)  . I am a former Head of Department for London Sport Institute and now working part time as a Senoir Manager enterprise and engagement.

I am the author of  the book,  Sport Psychology : Optimising Performance, published Bloomsbuty Press. 

Publications

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