User:Prof Andy Lane

Andy Lane is a Professor of Sport Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton. He has authored over 200 articles three books and is a regular contributor to the print, radio and TV media.

He led the BBC Lab UK called Can You Compete Under Pressure. The project in conjunction with colleagues from the Emotion Regulation of Others and Self EROS. Fronted by Michael Johnson a project Can You Compete Under Pressure (which was launched on The One Show the project. Findings from the project were published in the online journal Frontiers and over 40,000 people have looked at the work (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00413/full).

Promoting sport and exercise to the public isa key theme and builds of work from the BBC Lab UK project. Lane has a column in The Telegraph, features regularly in running magazines as a contributor (for example see Men’s running), regularly appears on podcasts, and was named as one of the most influential experts to follow by Runners World.

At the University of Wolverhampton, they have hosted free highly engaging discussions. Five-times Olympian Jo Pavey provided extremely interesting insights to light up a November night at Wolverhampton in 2017. Host of the popular podcast Marathon Talk and expert to the London Marathon, Dr Martin Yelling engaged in insightful discussions on running yourself happy.

Lane has worked with Sport Scientist Prof Greg Whyte on a number of projects including the popular book Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Medicine

To provide people with access to sport psychology tips, with Dr Helen Lane they run a website called winninglane.com and its sister page winninglane.blog. They have a youtube channel which has many useful videos on sport psychology. Examples include: