Meet the Team

 

About Steve
Steven Osborne is a Lecturer in Sport Management and Development in the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences. Steven joined the School in 2014, following a four and a half year tenure as a lecturer at Swansea Metropolitan University (now UWTSD).

Steven has over 20 year's voluntary, professional and academic experience in the sports industry, where he has experience in developing and implementing; strategic change programmes, local and national strategies, managing and leading teams of sports professionals. This work has been conducted in all major spheres of sport including voluntary, public, not for profit/private and national organisations.

He continues to support the development of Welsh Sport as a non-executive director for a not for profit leisure trust and has previously chaired Welsh Rowing and acted as a non-executive director with British Rowing.

 

About Andy
Andy is a Principal Lecturer and was the School's Director of Enterprise for 10 years building extensive relationships and partnerships with external agencies to facilitate the School's knowledge transfer activities.

He has provided a range of consultancy and training services to athletes, coaches, and NGBs and most recently has been involved in the training of trainee Sport and Exercise Scientists through the BASES Supervised experience workshops.

This contribution was recognised by the British Association of Sport & Exercise Science (BASES) who awarded Andy Fellowship status in 2012. Andy is also a Fellow of the HEA and also a National trainer for Sports Coach UK.

 

About Andy
Andy has over 15 years experience working across public, private and third sector organisations in the sport and leisure sector in senior management roles as well as over 15 years working in sports education at both FE and HE levels. From January 2008 he was seconded to the Sports Policy Unit of the Welsh Assembly Government from the Sports Council for Wales, as Senior Policy Development Manager.

During this time he advised Ministers on the Active Young People and Developing People strands of Climbing Higher and also the future development of the Free Swimming Initiative. He is now focusing on employability and enterprise development within HE sport together with policy and strategy issues.

 

About Sara
Sara Nicholes is a Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Development in the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences. Sara has worked in the sports industry for 10 years, 5 years specialising in Sport Management. Sara has comprehensive experience of the sporting landscape having worked in the public, voluntary and not-for-profit sectors.

Sara worked for the Active Young People Department at Bridgend Council for 3 years leading on numerous sports development initiatives including 5x60, Dragon Sport, Community Focused Schools and Active 4 Life programmes. Sara is a fluent Welsh speaker and spent 18 months working for the Urdd Gobaith Cymru as a Welsh language Sport Development Officer leading on developing Welsh language accreditation opportunities for young people.

More recently, Sara has spent the past 5 years working as the Sport Development Manager at Cardiff Met leading on numerous projects including the development of the Junior Sports Academy programmes and establishing a comprehensive Work Based Learning partnership with the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences.

 

About Hannah
Hannah is responsible for the administration and student support involved in securing work placements for the Level 5 and 6 Undergraduates, and Postgraduate students within the School of Sport & Health Sciences.

Employer engagement and developing a network of local, national and international employers in order to secure work placement opportunities for students is another of the main focusses of Hannah’s role. Hannah is a DBS Countersignature and supports students through the DBS application process. Prior to this post, Hannah worked in a similar role as an Employability and Progressions Advisor at Cardiff and Vale College.

 

About Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a Lecturer in Sport Management and Development in the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences. She joined the School in 2015, following 11 years of employment in public sector Education and Lifelong Learning, including 8 years within sports development.

Elizabeth is a former student of the UWIC (now Cardiff Metropolitan), graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Sports Development and later returning to complete an MA in Sports Leadership and Management.