Dr Lea-Cathrin Dohme
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences
Overview
Lea is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences. Lea has joined the School in September 2018, following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Sport Psychology Research Laboratory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Previously, while completing a PhD in the area of Sport Psychology that focussed on youth athletes’ positive psychological development, Lea held a four-year Graduate Teaching Assistant position at Leeds Beckett University where she taught on the BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching degree.
Lea has an emerging research profile that focuses on the positive development of youth athletes by teaching coaches and parents how to promote athletes’ psychological development through sport. Additionally, she has been actively involved in coach education projects in the UK and around the world. Lea is currently working towards becoming a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (BPS), a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Research Publications
Performance Indicators for Momentum in Netball
Davies, G., O’Donoghue, P., Dohme, L.-C. & Lane, A., 27 Aug 2024, 14th World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport. p. 41 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Developing Close, Trusting Coach–Athlete Relationships With High-Performance Adolescent Tennis Players
Papich, M. C., Bloom, G. A. & Dohme, L.-C., 24 Jul 2024, In: International Sport Coaching Journal. p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Momentum in netball: a simulation study
O’Donoghue, P., Davies, G., Dohme, L.-C. & Lane, A., 13 Nov 2023, In: Journal of Sports Sciences. 41, Supplement 1, p. 18 1 p., D2.S1.3(6).Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › peer-review
‘I’m not prepared to sacrifice my life for other people’s tennis’: An explorative study into the career narratives of female tennis coaches
Jones, E., Edwards, L., Dohme, L. C. & Norman, L., 19 Oct 2022, In: International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. 18, 2, p. 339-349 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The psychosocial development of the youth rugby player
Shand, R. A., Dohme, L. C. & Mellalieu, S. D., 1 Jun 2022, Youth Rugby. Taylor and Francis, p. 169-181 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Coaching youth athletes
Bloom, G. A., Dohme, L. C. & Falcão, W. R., 19 Mar 2021, Coaching for Human Development and Performance in Sports. Springer International Publishing, p. 143-167 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Understanding the behaviours employed by parents to support the psychological development of elite youth tennis players in England
Dohme, L. C., Bloom, G. A. & Knight, C. J., 30 Sept 2020, In: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 19, 6, p. 957-974 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Team building in youth sport
Dohme, L. C., Lefebvre, J. S. & Bloom, G. A., 21 Feb 2020, The Power of Groups in Youth Sport. Elsevier, p. 165-182 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Developing the effectiveness of applied sport psychology service delivery: A reflective practice intervention
Cropley, B., Hanton, S., Miles, A., Niven, A. & Dohme, L.-C., 2020, In: Sport and Exercise Psychology Review. 16, 1, p. 35-57 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Psychological Skills and Characteristics Facilitative of Youth Athletes' Development: A Systematic Review
Dohme, L. C., Piggott, D., Backhouse, S. & Morgan, G., 1 Dec 2019, In: Sport Psychologist. 33, 4, p. 261-275 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review