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

    Relative Age Effect? No "Flipping" Way! Exploring the Relative Age Effect in Women's Artistic Gymnastics.

    Langham-Walsh, E., Gottwald, V. & Hardy, J., 18 Oct 2019, p. 204.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Relative age effect? No “flipping” way! Nuanced evidence of an apparatus dependent inverse relative age effect, in elite women’s artistic gymnastics

    Langham-Walsh, E., Gottwald, V. & Hardy, J., 28 Jun 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 6, e0253656.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Relative age effect? No" flipping" way: Exploring the relative age effect in elite, female gymnastics

    Langham-Walsh, E., Gottwald, V. & Hardy, J., 2019, Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository). p. 116

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  4. Published

    Representational Momentum in the Expertise Context: Support for the Theory of Event Coding as an Explanation for Action Anticipation

    Anderson, D. N., Gottwald, V. M. & Lawrence, G. P., 14 Aug 2019, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 1838.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Representational Momentum reveals visual anticipation differences in the upper and lower visual fields.

    Gottwald, V. M., Lawrence, G. P., Hayes, A. E. & Khan, M. A., 1 May 2015, In: Experimental Brain Research.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Talent development in sport. How do you make it to the top?

    Knight, C. & Gottwald, V., 27 May 2022, In: Frontiers for Young Minds. 10, 684710.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. 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

  10. 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