Dr Anthony Bush
Lecturer in Sports Studies, Education and Coaching
1 West North 4.9
Email: a.j.b.bush@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5717
Profile
Dr Anthony Bush is a Lecturer in Sports Studies, Education, and Coaching at the University of Bath in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Bush is a former professional badminton player and has over 20 years of coaching experience. He is currently the Director of Studies for the BA in Sport and Social Sciences and is a member of the Physical Cultural Studies research group (PCS at Bath). Through the development and strategic dissemination of potentially empowering forms of knowledge and understanding, PCS at Bath seeks to illuminate, and intervene into, sites of physical cultural injustice and inequity. Dr Bush is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising on issues concerning the physically active body in a myriad of spaces and sites including, but not limited to, the elite sporting context. His work pushes at the ontological, epistemological and methodological boundaries of that which counts as the critical, social science oriented study of sport and physical activity. As such his work engages with a variety of methodological approaches that engage the empirical (including ethnography and autoethnography, participant observation, discourse and media analysis, and contextual analysis) and deploy an equally fluid theoretical vocabulary, utilising concepts and theories from a variety of disciplines (including cultural studies, economics, history, health, education, media studies, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, and urban studies) in engaging and interpreting the particular aspect of physical culture under scrutiny.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- ED10447 Sport and the Social Sciences: A Critical Introduction
- ED10143 Introduction to Sports Pedagogy
- ED20415 Reading & Writing Sport Critically
- ED30154 Applied Pedagogy & Practice: Coaching
- ED30428 Dissertation Research
Publications
Book/s
Bush, A. J., Silk, M. L., Andrews, D. L. and Lauder, H., 2013. Sports coaching research: context, consequences and consciousness. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society; 20)
Book Sections
Bush, A. J., 2012. Coaching case study. In: Foundations in Sports Coaching. London: Pearson, pp. 251-256.
Bush, A. J. and Roberts, W., 2012. Coaching knowledge and learning to coach. In: Foundations in Sports Coaching. London: Pearson, pp. 27-38.
Bush, A. J., 2012. Coaching pedagogy. In: Foundations in Sports Coaching. London: Pearson, pp. 63-74.
Bush, A. J., 2012. Coaching science. In: Foundations in Sports Science. London: Pearson, pp. 114-134.
Bush, A. J., 2012. Introduction to sports coaching. In: Foundations in Sports Coaching. London: Pearson, pp. 1-13.
Bush, A. J., 2007. What is coaching? In: Denison, J., ed. Coaching knowledges: Understanding the dynamics of sport performance. London: A&C Black, pp. 3-23.
Articles
Andrews, D. L., Silk, M. L., Bush, A. J. and Francombe, J., 2013. McKinesiology. Submitted to: Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Bush, A. J. and Silk, M. L., 2012. Politics, power & the podium: coaching for paralympic performance. Reflective Practice, 13 (3), 471-482.
Bush, A. J., Anderson, E. and Carr, S., 2012. The declining existence of men’s homophobia in organized university sport. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 6 (1), pp. 107-120.
Bush, A. J. and Silk, M., 2010. Towards an evolving critical consciousness in coaching research: the physical pedagogic bricolage. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 5 (4), pp. 551-565.
Silk, M. L., Bush, A. J. and Andrews, D. L., 2010. Contingent intellectual amateurism, or, the problem with evidence-based research. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 34 (1), pp. 105-128.
Bush, A. J., 2004. Computers and Physical Education Teachers: a rationale for use and a small scale study into physical education teachers' attitudes towards and use of computers. The British Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 35, 45--49.
Reports/Papers
Bush, A., Manley, A. and Morgan, H., 2012. Scoping Project for Badminton England: Towards Modelling a Junior Performance Badminton Academy. Other. Milton Keynes: Badminton England.
Conference or Workshop Items
Bush, A. J., Silk, M. L. and Morgan, H. J., 2011. Pedagogy under pressure: sport, the social sciences and sustainability. In: Annual Conference of the Political Studies Sport Group (PSSG Annual Conference 2011), 2011-03-18, Birmingham, England.
Thesis
Bush, A. J., 2009. ‘Doing coaching justice’: Promoting a critical consciousness in sports coaching research. Thesis (Doctor of Education (EdD)). University of Bath.
