About
Ian Pickup is currently Director of Student Affairs at Roehampton University, having previously worked as Director of Student Development and Director of Sport and Wellbeing. Before that, Ian was Principal Lecturer and subject leader in Physical Education, also at Roehampton.
The Department of Student Affairs includes five services, all playing an important role in supporting the Roehampton student experience. These services are: Employability & Entrepreneurship; Health & Wellbeing; Disability Services; Student Funding and Sport Roehampton.
Ian was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2007 and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce the same year. Ian joined the Board of Pro Active South London, the sub regional sports partnership, in 2008 and Chaired the South London Lifelong Learning Network's Sport Leisure and Tourism sector group from 2007 to 2009.
Recent Publications
Zachopoulou, E., Liukkonen, J., Pickup, I. & Tsangaridou, N. (Eds) (2010) Early Steps Physical Education Curriculum: Theory and Practice for Children Under 8, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics.
Bailey, R., Armour, K., Kirk, D., Jess, M., Pickup, I. & Sandford, R. (2008) The Educational Benefits Claimed for Physical Education and School Sport: An Academic Review, Research Papers in Education, pp. 1-26.
Pickup, I., Price, L., Shaughnessy, J., Spence, J. & Trace, M. (2008) Learning to Teach Primary Physical Education: achieving QTS, London: Learning Matters.
Pickup, I. with Haydn-Davies, D. & Jess, M. (2007) The importance of primary physical education, Physical Education Matters, 2 (1), pp. 8-11.
Pickup, I. & Price, L. (2007) Teaching Physical Education in the Primary School: a Developmental Approach, London: Continuum.
Bailey, R., Doherty, J. & Pickup, I. (2007) Physical Development and Physical Education, in J.Riley (ed.) Learning in the early years: a guide for teachers of children 3-7 (2nd edition), London: Sage.
Bailey, R. & Pickup, I. (2007) Movement Learning, in: R. Austin (ed.) Letting the outside in: developing teaching and learning beyond the early years classroom, Stoke on Trent: Trentham publishers.