Dr Vicky Gottwald

Senior

Contact info

School of Psychology and Sport Science, Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP)

Location: George Building (Room 302)

Email: v.m.gottwald@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: +44(0)1248 382824

Twitter: @GottwaldVicky

Research Group: http://ipep.bangor.ac.uk/ 

Vicky is a researcher in skill acquisition with particular interest in coaching instruction. She is a UKCC Level 4 Coach and the Talent Identification and Transfer Lead for the Welsh Institute of Performance Science (WIPS). She has experience working with a number of high performance sporting organisations, including UK Sport, Weigthlifting Wales, Welsh Rowing, England Athletics and UK Deaf Sport.

  1. Published

    The movement kinematics and learning strategies associated with adopting different foci of attention during both acquisition and anxious performance

    Lawrence, G. P., Gottwald, V., Khan, M. A. & Kramer, R., 2 Nov 2012, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 3, 468

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Skill acquisition for coaches.

    Lawrence, G. P., Kingston, K., Gottwald, V. M. & Jones, R. L. (ed.), 4 Mar 2013, An Introduction to Sports Coaching: Connecting Theory to Practice: 2nd edition. Routledge, p. 31-48

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  3. Published

    Practice with anxiety improves performance, but only when anxious: evidence for the specificity of practice hypothesis

    Lawrence, G. P., Cassell, V. E., Beattie, S. J., Woodman, T., Khan, M. A., Hardy, L. J. & Gottwald, V. M., 27 Oct 2013, In: Psychological Research. 78, 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Thirty years of longitudinal talent development research: A systematic review and meta-aggregation

    Lawrence, G., Dunn, E., Gottwald, V., Oliver, S., Roberts, R., Hardy, J. & Woodman, T., 22 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Practice with anxiety improves performance, but only when anxious: Evidence for the specificity of practice hypothesis

    Lawrence, G., Beattie, S., Woodman, T., Khan, M. A., Hardy, L., Gottwald, V. M. & Cassell, V. E., 20 Jun 2012, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. s1 ed. Vol. 34. p. S101

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  6. Published

    Testing anxiety's effect on movement planning and correction: Online upper-limb corrections are not completely automatic

    Lawrence, G., Owen, R., Gottwald, V. & Khan, M., Feb 2023, In: Human Movement Science. 87, 1, 24 p., 103022.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Lets go Surfing now, everybody's learning how; attentional strategies on expert and novice surfing performance under both practice and competition conditions

    Lawrence, G. P., Virian, J., Oliver, S. J. & Gottwald, V. M., 2020, In: European Journal of Sport Science. 20, 2, p. 229-239 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Internal and External Focus of Attention in a Novice Form Sport

    Lawrence, G. P., Gottwald, V. M., Hardy, J. & Khan, M. A., Jan 2013, In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 82, 3, p. 431-441

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Systematically increasing contextual interference is beneficial for learning, but how long for?

    Mandzuk, A. A., Mandzuk, A., Lawrence, G. P. & Gottwald, V. M., 29 Apr 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    Pressure enhances online control when 'I' don't know I need to correct, but reduces it when 'I' do: Motor control strategies and state anxiety

    Owen, R., Gottwald, V. & Lawrence, G., 21 Oct 2018, Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport: SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository. 1 ed. Vol. 50. p. 54

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review