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Clive Alan Palmer

Senior Lecturer in Sports Pedagogy, PE and Outdoor Education

School of Sport and Health Sciences

Qualitative research methods, Ethnography and sports philsophy, Aesthetics and arts-based research, Physical Education and Sports pedagogy, Research Informed Teaching, The senses and sensory learning

Clive Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire. An experienced teacher and researcher he was awarded his PhD on Aesthetic Evaluation in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics from Liverpool John Moores University in 2003. He has since written widely in socio-cultural areas of sport crossing philosophy, education and qualitative research. He is a strong advocate of research informed teaching and actively promotes opportunities to showcase student writing which communicates experiences and discoveries through the study of sport. His academic interests include gymnastics, ethnography, aesthetics and the philosophy of sport, physical education, sport’s pedagogy and outdoor education.

B.Ed (Hons) Outdoor and Science Education (Secondary QTS) MA Physical Education Sport and Dance PhD: Title: A qualitative investigation of aesthetic evaluation of Men's Artistic Gymnastics

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Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 and Larson, Mitchell Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0002-5506-0815 (2014) When (or how) do the Olympics become stale? Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics . ISSN 1743-0437
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2014) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications, Preston. ISBN 978-0-9566270-6-3
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811, Creswell, Anna and Loveday, Rachel (2015) Crealivity: using creativity to portray reality. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 9 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1754-2375
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 and Busko, Aimee (2016) Outdoor Learning through the school day – the National Curriculum in a tent. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 10 (1). pp. 1-60. ISSN 1754-2375
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2016) Boots-and-me: an ethno-sensual account of love, dedication and smelly old boots. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 10 (1). pp. 269-292. ISSN 1754-2375
Pryle, Joseph and Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2015) Calypso cricket: connecting cultures in California. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 9 (1). pp. 195-218. ISSN 1754-2375
Palmer, Clive Alan and Torevell, David, eds. (2008) The turn to aesthetics: an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University Press. UK., Liverpool Hope University. ISBN 978-0-9515847-3-6
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2009) The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing. Centre for Research Informed Teaching, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.. ISBN 978-0-9562343-2-2
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2009) The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing. University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK.. ISBN 978-0-9562343-2-2
Palmer, Clive Alan ORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2008) Inroduction: The turn to aesthetics: An interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. In: The turn to aesthetics: An interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University Press. UK., Liverpool, pp. 1-4. ISBN 978-0-9515874-3-6

	Item title	Views
1	When (or how) do the Olympics become stale? Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics.	2621
2	Outdoor Learning through the school day – the National Curriculum in a tent.	2163
3	The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education	1924
4	Boots-and-me: an ethno-sensual account of love, dedication and smelly old boots	1523
5	Calypso cricket: connecting cultures in California	1490
6	Crealivity: using creativity to portray reality	1433
7	Structure and surface – contextualising aesthetic form in the sport psychology process	644
8	The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing	572
9	The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities	523
10	Introduction: Pedagogical Poetry: ‘new’ degrees of freedom to explore and express ideas about sporting life (pp. 1-5).	491

Item title

Views

When (or how) do the Olympics become stale? Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics.

2621

Outdoor Learning through the school day – the National Curriculum in a tent.

2163

The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education

1924

Boots-and-me: an ethno-sensual account of love, dedication and smelly old boots

1523

Calypso cricket: connecting cultures in California

1490