Role
- Postgraduate Courses Manager for Sport MRes courses
- Course Leader for the BSc Coaching and Sport Science degree
- University verifier for FdSc Sports Coaching (Central College)
Career overview
Dr Jolly previously worked for British Rowing for seven years as a Coach Educator and Rowing Coach, and as an Exercise Physiology Lecturer and Applied Sport Scientist at the University of Teesside.
Research areas
- Coaching Pedagogy: Enhancing formal coach education
- Pedagogy in Higher Education: Student negotiated assessment criteria and learning outcomes
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship education in higher education
- E-learning in Higher Education: Presentations at NTU Annual Learning and Teaching conference 2014:
* Co-exploring uncharted territory: Students as active partners in negotiating module assessment criteria, module learning outcomes and module content.
* Design for learning: technology and collaboration
* Experiences of embedding opportunities for entrepreneurship - Presentation at NTU Course Leaders Conference 2014:
* Co-creating student learning and teaching experiences with students at the course level - NTU E-learning conference 2013-2014:
* Audio feedback
* Quick tech ideas
* Conditional release in NOW - Presentation at NTU College Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2014:
* Next Stop the Oscars! Video editing for people who think they can’t edit videos
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD in the School of Science and Technology exist and further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
External activity
- Lead for HEA grant supported project 'Adventures in Setting up and Running a Social Enterprise'
- Presentation at HEA Annual Conference 2014: 'Experiences in Social Enterprise: adventures in setting up and running a student lead social enterprise.'
- Presentation at HEA Social Sciences Cluster Conference 2014
- Director of EntActive (community interest company), a social enterprise with the aims of providing sport, coaching and healthy lifestyles interventions to local community groups, whilst providing students with live experiences of setting up and running a social enterprise to develop their skills of enterprise and entreprenueurship
- Finalist in UK Sport Ideas for Innovation Competition: The Kazoom: Sonification of performance data for improving technique
- Prior responsibility for Notts County Football Club Programme of Physiological Testing
Sponsors and collaborators
Current and recent research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and / or support of:
Publications
On the use of isoperformance curves for profiling and identification of training needs. Jolly S, European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2013, 112 (11), 3931-3932
A critical view of critical velocity testing to predict performance. Jolly SA, Journal of Sports Sciences, 2013, 1-2.
An analysis of practice activities and instructional behaviours used by youth soccer coaches during practice: Exploring the link between science and application. Jolly S, Journal of Sports Sciences, 2010, 28 (14), 1625-1625.
The reproducibility of estimates of critical power and anaerobic work capacity in upper-body exercise. Taylor SA and Batterham AM, European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2002, 87 (1), 43-49