Dr Patricia Mahon-Daly
UCFB Wembley
Course Lecturer
Sports Coaching, Management and Research Methods
Dr Mahon-Daly is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, which is a the most prestigious accolade in Academia, celebrating the National Impact which Patricia has enjoyed across her career in teaching and Learning and pedagogy, and which she brings into her work with us. She has extensive experience of leading and delivery high quality teaching to a very wide range of students, and at all academic and foundation levels. She has extensive curriculum development, content creation expertise and assessment design.
Dr Mahon-Daly PFHEA has 25 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education and Academia, and led Teams and Academic Departments in a whole range of Social Sciences, Criminology, Social Studies and Sport. She has also led and co-ordinated Research Methods and Ethics review Modules and supported active researchers throughout this time. Dr Mahon-Daly has experience in supporting and Supervising Doctoral Students and those students undertaking Professional Doctorates, and all types of Masters Students in a wide range of methodologies.
She was also awarded both Fellowship and Senior Fellowship by Advance HE for advanced expertise in pedagogy and leading change in teaching and learning at BNU, and is an experienced mentor to Academics seeking professional accreditation, and Advance HE Fellowships having established an internal process in UCFB in 2020 to support Academics attaining Fellowship to enhance their teaching and learning skills and sits on Fellowship Review Panels.
Dr Mahon- Daly is known for her extensive collaborative approach and network, and convenes a regular research and practitioner interactive seminar series “Academic chat” which regularly sees influential Academics external to UCFB sharing their work, as well as showcasing the research from our internal staff.
She was awarded her Doctorate from Brunel University for her research into citizenship, risk and the body in Blood Donation and the Body. She regularly presents at national conferences and is research active currently applying theory of risk and emotional labour to the world of Football fans.
Industry expertise
Dr Mahon-Daly is a qualified and active personal trainer who has a long standing interest in health and fitness, and brings an innovative approach to research in sport and fitness, by joining together her passions for both academia and teaching excellence to the study and research into sport and fitness, with students producing industry pertinent projects as a result
She has worked with the key providers in the Personal training industry e.g. YMCA, GLL and Skills Active and she is a qualified boxing coach, spinning instructor and is a nutrition coach, which led to enhancement to curricula based around industry practices. She has also worked with other key agencies to enhance the curriculum e.g. College of Policing.
Dr Mahon-Daly has a large external network and contacts as a result of her long-standing experience in Higher Education, as well as key players in the Fitness Industry and these influence her teaching and employability focus. She has worked with major leisure industry providers to embed occupational standards into academic programmes.
- Ethnicity and Culture, the body in contemporary Society, Mediatisation.
- Qualitative Research Methodologies especially ethnography, content analysis, on line researching
- Ethical Review and Practices
- Curricula Development and Employability
- Digital Learning
- Assessment and Learning pedagogy
- PhD
- MRes
- MSc
- BSc (Hons)
- Cert Ed Further / Higher Education
- Principal Fellowship (PFHEA) ADVANCE HE
- Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Fellow FHEA HEA