Dr Chris Lonsdale

• Qualifications
• Biography
• Research
• Selected Publications
• Grants/Current Projects
• Teaching Interests 
• Awards/Honours
• Professional Activities

Qualifications

 PhD, MA, BSc (Hons)  

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Biography

Following his doctoral studies at the University of Otago, Chris was Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before moving to Ireland to take up a joint appointment with the University College Dublin and the Irish Rugby Football Union. He joined the University of Western Sydney (UWS) in August 2010.

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Research

• Physical Activity & Health Promotion
• Sport & Exercise Psychology

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Selected Publications

Chan, D.K., Lonsdale, C., & Fung, H.H. (in press). Influences of coaches, parents, and peers on the motivational patterns of child and adolescent athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 

Lonsdale, C., Sabiston, C.M., Taylor, I.M., & Ntoumanis, N. (In press). Measuring student motivation for physical education: Examining the psychometric properties of the Perceived Locus of Causality Questionnaire and the Situational Motivation Scale. Psychology of Sport & Exercise.  doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.11.003.

Ng., J.Y.Y., Lonsdale., C., & Hodge., K. (In press). The Basic Needs Satisfaction in Sport Scale (BNSSS): Instrument development and initial validity evidence. Psychology of Sport & Exercise. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.10.006.

Lonsdale, C., & Hodge, K. (In press). Temporal ordering of motivational quality and athlete burnout in elite sport. Medicine and Science in Sport & Exercise. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181ff56c.

Aherne, C. Lonsdale., C.*, & Moran, A. P. (In press). The effect of mindfulness training on athletes’ flow: An initial investigation. The Sport Psychologist.

Taylor, I.M., & Lonsdale, C. (2010). Cultural differences in the relationships between autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, subjective vitality, and effort in British and Chinese physical education. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32, 655-673.

Hurley, D.A., Eadie, J., O'Donoghue, G., Kelly, C., Lonsdale, C., Guerin, S., Tully, M., van Mechelen, W., McDonough, S.M., Boreham, C.A.B., Heneghan, C., & Daly, L. (2010). Physiotherapy for sleep disturbance in chronic low back pain: A feasibility randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 11, 70.

Chan, D.K., Lonsdale, C., Ho, H.P., Yung, P.S.H., & Chan, K.M. (2009). Patient motivation and adherence to post-surgery rehabilitation exercise recommendations: The influence of physiotherapists’ autonomy supportive behaviors. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 90, 1977-1982.

Lonsdale, C., Sabiston, C.M., Raedeke, T.D., Ha, S.C.A., & Sum, K.W.R. (2009). Self-determined motivation and students' physical activity in physical education classes and free-choice periods. Preventive Medicine, 48, 69-73.

Lonsdale, C., Hodge, K., & Rose, E.A. (2009). Burnout in elite sport: A self-determination perspective. Journal of Sports Sciences, 27, 785-795.

Hodge, K., Lonsdale, C., & Jackson, S.A. (2009). Athlete engagement in elite sport: An exploratory investigation of antecedents and consequences. The Sport Psychologist, 23, 186-202.

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Grants/Current Projects

Lonsdale, C., Lubans, D., & Rosenkranz, R. (awarded November 2010). Increasing Active Learning Time in PhysicalEducation: An Application of Self-Determination Theory. UWS Internal Research Grants Scheme (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine). 

Lonsdale, C., Hurley, D.A., & Williams, G.C. (awarded June 2010). Testing a theory-based intervention designed to increase chronic low back pain patients’ adherence to physiotherapists’ recommendations: A randomised controlled trial. Grant application awarded by the Health Research Board of Ireland. 

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Awards/Honours

Exemplary Teaching Award (2005/6 & 2006/7). The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Teaching Interests

• Sport & Exercise Psychology 
• Research Methods
• Statistics
• Communication
  

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Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member -  International Journal of Sport Psychology

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