Dr Nicholas Smeeton
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643714
Email: N.J.Smeeton@brighton.ac.uk
Dr Nicholas Smeeton's Google Scholar Profile
Research
- Training anticipation and decision-making skill in sport
- Facilitating and developing expert performance
- Applying motor control and learning theory to skill learning
Biography
B.Sc. (Hons) Psychology and Physiology (University of Reading); M.Sc. Sports Psychology (Liverpool John Moores university); PhD Anticipation Skill in Tennis (Liverpool John Moores university) Nick lectures in a range of topics including sport and exercise psychology, motor behaviour and research methods.
His research work focuses on the training of anticipation and decision-making skills in academy football players and young elite tennis players.
He worked in professional sport, delivered performance enhancement to national and international level athletes.
Research Publications
SMEETON, NICHOLAS and Williams, A.M. (2012) The role of movement exaggeration in the anticipation of deceptive soccer penalty kicks British Journal of Psychology . ISSN 0007-1269
WILKINSON, DAVID, SMEETON, NICHOLAS, Castle, P.C. and WATT, PETER (2011) Absence of neuropsychological impairment in hyperammonaemia in healthy young adults; possible synergism in development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) symptoms? Metabolic Brain Disease, 26 (3). pp. 203-212. ISSN 0885-7490
Smeeton, N.J. and Huys, R. (2010) Anticipation of tennis-shot direction from whole-body movement: the role of movement amplitude and dynamics Human Movement Science, 30 (5). pp. 957-965. ISSN 0167-9457
Wilkinson, D.J., Smeeton, N.J. and Watt, P. (2010) Ammonia metabolism, the brain and fatigue; revisiting the link Progress in Neurobiology, 91 (3). pp. 200-219. ISSN 0301-0082
Huys, R., Canal-Bruland, R., Hagemann, N., Beek, P.J., Smeeton, N.J. and Williams, A.M. (2009) Global information pickup underpins anticipation of tennis shot direction Journal of Motor Behavior, 41 (2). pp. 158-170. ISSN 0022-2895
Huys, R., Smeeton, N.J., Hodges, N.J., Beek, P.J. and Williams, A.M. (2008) On the dynamic information underlying visual anticipation skill Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 70 (7). pp. 1217-1234. ISSN 1943-3921
Williams, A.M., Ward, P., Smeeton, N.J. and Ward, J. (2008) Task specificity, role, and anticipation skill in soccer Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 79 (3). pp. 428-433. ISSN 0270-1367
Smeeton, N J, Williams, A M, Hodges, N J and Ward, P (2005) The Relative Effectiveness of Various Instructional Approaches in Developing Anticipation Skill Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 11 (2). pp. 98-110. ISSN 1076-898X
Williams, A M, Ward, P, Smeeton, N J and Allen, D (2004) Developing Anticipation Skills in Tennis Using On-Court Instruction: Perception versus Perception and Action Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 16 (4). pp. 350-360. ISSN 1041-3200
Williams, A M, Ward, P and Smeeton, N J (2004) Perceptual and Cognitive Expertise in Sport: Implications for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement In: Williams, A M and Hodges, N J, eds. Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice. Routledge, London, pp. 328-348. ISBN 0415270758
Smeeton, N J, Ward, P and Williams, A M (2004) Do pattern recognition skills transfer across sports? A preliminary analysis Journal of Sports Sciences, 22 (2). pp. 205-213. ISSN 1466-477X
Williams, A. Mark, Ward, Paul, Knowles, John M. and Smeeton, Nicholas J. (2002) Anticipation skill in a real-world task: measurement, training, and transfer in tennis. Journal of experimental psychology: Applied, 8 (4). pp. 259-270. ISSN 1076-898X
Recent Research and Commercial Activity Grants & Funding
2010 Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School – Imaging Prize. With Williams, A.M., Edwards, M.G. & Watt, P. The role of the mirror neuron system in skilful action anticipation.
2010 ECB. Anticipation skill in cricket batting simulators
2009-2010 UK Sport – Talent Advisory Service with Brickley, G., Maxwell, N.M. & Harley, R. (£9600).
Postgraduate Student Supervision
MPhil/PhD (Current)
- Daniel Wilkinson
- Karl Stevenson
- James Wrightson
