This week we speak to Jodie Whitford-Stark. Jodie is the Coach Development Officer at the FA Women’s High Performance Football Centre at St Marys University and talks about her role, the importance of informal coach development opportunities and the WHPFC programme.

This weeks episode feature the final talks from the Player Care Webinar hosted by St Mary's University. These talks discuss player care and the adolescent brain as well as what it is like being a player care tutor in professional football.

This episode features three talks from the St Mary's University Care Webinar. The talks are on the importance of player care, challenge and opportunities for proactive wellbeing during the Covid 19 pandemic and reducing behavioural risk.

This week we speak to Ross Stewart. Ross is a coach at St Mirren FC and an assistant head teacher. He talks about his coaching journey and how being a coach aids his role as a teacher. We also chat about assessment for learning and the eternal debate of winning versus development in coaching.

On this weeks episode we have a discussion about interdisciplinary support teams in sport. How are they created and how can they be successful?

This week we speak to Liam McCarthy, a lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, who discuss his work in coach education and development. Liam talks in-depth about his research on the UEFA B License with the FA and the use of project based assessment in coach education.

This week we have the last in our Foundation phase series. We hear from Sampa Chibulu, from Chelsea FC Academy, who considers moving to a multidisciplinary coaching approach in the foundation phase and Nick Levett from UK Coaching who provides insight from his professional experience across multiple roles and sports in working with foundation phase players.

We also feature our latest View from the Bootroom where Goncalo Pinto

discusses his experience studying on the MSc in Performance Football Coaching at St Marys University and his role as 1st team performance analyst at AFC Wimbledon.

This week we bring you the second episode of our Foundation Phase Coaching Series featuring presentations from the Foundation Phase Coaching Event at St Mary's University. We hear from Carl Wild, the Foundation Phase lead at Manchester City Regional Talent Club and Philippa McGregor, a performance psychology consultant who discusses developmentally tailoring coaching practice.

This week we bring you part one of our Foundation Phase series recorded at the St Marys University webinar on the Foundation Phase Player Development. We hear from Pete Sturgess about his manifesto for change and Manisha Tailor MBE about technical development in the Foundation Phase.

This week on the Half-Space Podcast we discuss the challenges and opportunities of adopting a 'Super-Strength' coaching approach. This coaching style focuses on developing a players 'best' attribute rather than focusing solely on a players weaknesses.