Marie Winter
UCFB Wembley
Course Lecturer
BSc (Hons) Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Performance
Dr Marie Winter is a Senior Lecturer in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology at the University Campus of Football Business, Wembley Stadium, UK. Marie has a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Sport and Exercise Science, including a year abroad in Melbourne, AUS, both from the University of Essex, UK. Her research specialism is evidence-informed decision-making in applied psychology. She has developed a model for making evidence-informed decisions in applied sport psychology specifically, but is working to apply this model across other applied domains (e.g., buisness, tacitcal settings, performing arts).
Additionally, Marie is using her research to improve the service delivery competence of trainee mental performance consultants within the US and UK by implementing innovative constructivist learning approaches and building communities of pratice to develop mentor-mentee relationships. Marie sits on the AASP Science to Practice Committee and is a qualified Athlete Personal Development and Lifestyle Advisor. The majority of Marie’s applied experiences come from sport, and she has 12 years’ experience of coaching competitive diving at an elite level. Marie also has a big interest in classical music, having played the violin and sung with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall.
Areas of expertise
- Evidence-informed decision-making
Expertise in industry
- Applied sport and exercise psychology
- Applied performance psychology
- Sport and Exercise Psychology
- Psychological Research Methods (quantitative and qualitative)
- Evidence-Informed Decision-Making
- Decision-Making
- Practice Philosophy
- PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology
- Fellowship of Advanced HE
- Association for Applied Sport Psychology Membership, 2020-Present
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Membership, 2021-present
- Member of Association for Applied Sport Psychology Science to Practice Committee, 2021-present
Journal Publications
- Winter, M., Freeman, P., Griffin, M., Soundy A., and Maynard, I (2023). Exploring the processes of evidence-informed decision-making in applied sport psychology. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
- Low, W. R., Sandercock, G. R. H., Freeman, P., Winter, M. E., Butt, J., & Maynard, I. (2020). Pressure training for performance domains: A meta-analysis. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.
- Winter, M., Freeman, P., Griffin, M., Soundy A., and Maynard, I (2023). Experiences of developing evidence-informed decision-making competence in trainee sport psychology practitioners: supervisor and supervisee perspectives. The Sport Psychologist.(NB: In press)
Selected Presentations
- “Bridging Research and Practice: How to Make Evidence-Informed Decisions in Applied Sport Psychology”, workshop. AASP Annual Conference. 23rd-26th October, Las Vegas, USA, 2024
- “Continuing Education for Sport Psychology Training: How to Maximise the Mentor-Mentee Relationship”, continuing education 3-hour workshop. AAS Annual Conference. 23rd-26th October, Las Vegas, USA, 2024
- “Developing Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Competence of Trainee Sport and Exercise Psychologists: Supervisor and Supervisee Perspectives” AASP Annual Conference, 26th-29th July, Texas, USA, 2022
- “Sport Psychology Practitioners’ experience of engaging with the psychological skills intervention literature: an interpretive phenomenological analysis” AASP Annual Conference, 6th-9th October, online, 2021
- “The Relationship Between Research and Practice in Applied Sport Psychology in the UK” AASP Annual Conference, 21st-24th October, online, 2020