Dr Mario Borges

I am a Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the BSc(Hons) in Sports Coaching and Analysis. I joined LSBU in 2014 as a Lecturer in Sports Coaching and Analysis, having previously worked as a Sport and PE Teacher as well as a Handball Coach. I was awarded a research fellowship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and I completed a PhD in Human Kinetics at the University of Lisbon. I am currently teaching both sports degrees in the modules such as Perception and Action 1, Placement, Sports Populations and Coaching Groups, Notational and Performance Analysis, Placement and Employability.

My research interests are in coach education, sport migration and notational analysis in sport. Over the past years, I have been studying the perceptions of migrant coaches in relation to their recruitment process, motivations to migrate and migration experience as a whole. I have investigated the patterns and networks of Portuguese coaches’ migration and examined how foreign coaches are viewed through media discourse. I have been studying the coaches’ immigration to the United Kingdom by analysing the foreign and native coaches’ views on migration. With the support from the UEFA Research Grant 2017/18, my research in sports migration also provided insight for cultural intelligence in the sports context and informed about the cross-cultural training needs of football coaches to work with people from different countries. Recently, I was awarded with the FIFA Scholarship 2022/23 to implement and evaluate a cross-cultural training programme for football coaches. I have studied the learning and professional development of sports coaches by examining their knowledge and competences. I have also been studying the passing networks in team sports, particularly in football and handball.

Course Director BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Analysis

I am the Module Leader for Level 5 and Level 6 modules in the BSc Sports Coaching and Analysis degree: Placement (Level 5) Sporting Populations and Coaching Groups (Level 6) Notational and Performance Analysis (Level 6) I also teach in both Sports degrees across all Levels: Perception and Action 1 (Level 4) Research Methods (Level 5) Sport Psychology for Coaching (Level 5) Research Project (Level 6)