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Dr Nalda Wainwright is an Associate Professor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the founder of MiniMovers Ltd. Nalda is recognised internationally for her work in early childhood physical development and outdoor learning. Her research, published and presented globally, examines how we can support professionals in supporting children’s physical development.
Dr Jackie Goodway is a Professor of Kinesiology at The Ohio State University in the USA. She is an internationally renowned, award-winning academic in Motor Development and has co-authored one of the world’s leading textbooks in motor development. Dr Goodway’s work focuses on motor skill interventions to promote motor competence and enhance physical activity levels among young children, providing them with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to engage in a healthy lifestyle.
Kirsty is the Physical Literacy community programme manager and was a Physical Education teacher for nine years. She is passionate about every child having equal opportunities and being taught through a child-centred approach. Kirsty has represented Great Britain and has been a gold medallist in European and World Lifesaving championships. Her hobbies include CrossFit, skiing and playing fun MiniMovers activities with her young daughter.
Dr Amanda John is a lecturer and trainer for the nationally recognised SKIP Cymru programme. Amanda has researched the impact of motor development training programmes on children’s physical activity, competence and confidence. She has also examined how teachers and staff teach the skills to children so that we can analyse the best ways to train staff so that they deliver suitable activities for children to progress. Amanda’s research has been presented at international conferences in Italy, USA and Luxembourg.
Dr Kate Piper is the Programme Manager of the BA Physical Education degree at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Kate’s doctoral research examined the relationship between physical literacy and health. She has studied how developing physical literacy supports physical activity as a resource to maintain health and wellbeing. She is a trained circus skills teacher and sports therapist, passionate about improving young people’s outcomes through access to a lifetime of physical activity.
Anna is a lecturer and tutor for the early childhood physical development courses at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Anna has been working on a European-funded research project, evaluating and developing a parent-child motor development programme. Her internationally presented research has examined how parents learn activities to play with their children and how they impact their children’s physical development.
Dr Nalda Wainwright is Associate Professor and director of the Wales Academy for health and physical literacy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Nalda was a primary teacher for 14 years specialising in work with children with motor delays and neurodiversity. She lectures on the Physical Education and Outdoor Education degrees and manages the MA Physical Education, Sport and Physical Literacy. Nalda’s research, which has been published and presented globally, examines how we can support professionals to in turn support children’s physical development. Her passion is transforming research into practice so that people can support young children’s physical development and give them a great start in life. Nalda is recognised nationally and internationally for her work in early childhood physical development and outdoor learning. She works with teachers, pre-school staff, health professionals and sports and leisure coaches to support children’s health and well-being. She is the founder of MiniMovers Ltd.
Click here to see Nalda’s Research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZCvO3KQAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr Jackie Goodway is Professor of Kinesiology at The Ohio State University in USA. She is an internationally renowned and award winning academic in Motor Development. She has transformed opportunities for young children globally with her transformative SKIP- Successful Kinaesthetic Instruction for Pre-schoolers programme. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, 100 published abstracts, 12 book chapters, and over 180 international and national presentations in this area. She has co-authored one of the leading textbooks in motor development within the USA and globally. Dr Goodway’s work focuses on providing young children with an active start to life. Her research focuses on motor skill interventions to promote motor competence and enhance physical activity levels among young children, providing them with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to engage in a healthy lifestyle.
Click here to see Jackie’s Research: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=A-94HVcAAAAJ&hl=en
Kirsty is the Physical Literacy community programme manager. Kirsty was a Physical Education teacher for 9 years and a Physical Education and School Sport Regional Manager. Prior to this, she has been a Healthy Schools Co-ordinator and she is passionate about every child having equal opportunities and being taught through a child-centred approach. Kirsty commitment to physical literacy is evident in her own leisure time as she highly values physical activity. She has represented Great Britain in European and World Lifesaving championships on multiple occasions winning two gold medals in the European Life Saving Championships in Mallorca. Her hobbies now include CrossFit, horse riding, skiing and surfing and playing a range of fun activities with her young daughter, ready for our MiniMovers worlds.
Dr Amanda John is a lecturer and trainer for the nationally recognised SKIP Cymru programme. Amanda has researched the impact of motor development training programmes on children’s physical activity, their competence and their confidence. She has measured the improvements in children’s fine and gross motor skills over time and examined the relationship between their skills and their activity levels. She has also researched how teachers and staff teach the skills to children so that we can analyse the best ways to train staff so that they deliver the right activities for children to progress. Amanda’s research has been presented at international conferences in Italy, USA and Luxembourg. Amanda has taught physical education in primary and secondary schools and played English and Welsh league football.
Dr Kate Piper is the Programme Manager of the BA Physical Education degree at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She lectures across multiple BA and BSc degrees, as well as MA Physical Education, Sport and Physical Literacy. Kate is an experienced teacher having worked in primary and secondary schools and supported physical literacy in the Welsh government funded physical literacy programme for schools (PLPS). Kate’s research examines the relationship between physical literacy and health. She has examined how developing physical literacy supports physical activity as a resource to maintain health and wellbeing. She is trained circus skills teacher, a trained sports therapist and is passionate about improving young people’s outcomes through access to a lifetime of physical activity.
Anna is an expert in the field of motor development, tutoring on the early year’s physical development courses at The University of Wales Trinity Saint David and teaching Creativity in Movement on the BA Physical Education Degree. Anna has been working for over three years on a European-funded research project that has been evaluating and developing a parent-child motor development programme. She has been examining how the activities are learnt by parents to play with their children and how these activities then impact on the children’s development. Her research has measured the changes in families’ physical and activity behaviours and explored parents’ experiences of the programme and the activities. Anna is a dancer, personal trainer and keen footballer. She is motivated to encourage all families to become more physically active and particularly help parents support their children’s movement skills.
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