Ian Pickup

Biography

Ian Pickup is Director of Sport & Wellbeing at Roehampton University, having previously worked as Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader for Physical Education, also at Roehampton.

As Director of Sport & Wellbeing, Ian is leading developments across the University, with specific objectives in the areas of sports performance, community engagement, physical activity and sports facility development. He is also the University contact for projects related to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.

Before joining Roehampton, Ian played and coached professional rugby union at Harlequins Rugby Club, taught in secondary and primary schools, within Further Education, and worked as a development officer for the Rugby Football Union in Surrey and South London.

Ian is a passionate advocate for high quality and inclusive sport and physical education experiences and is committed to working with coaches, teachers and young people.

In 2006 Ian founded 'Move,' an innovative sports-based social inclusion project which transfers life skills from the sports context to empower young people to engage with educational and vocational opportunities. The university now employs a full time Community Sports Development Officer to lead this work and deploys existng students as ambassadors in the local community.

Ian's work is not limited to the UK - he has supported practitioners working in post-disaster contexts and has delivered workshops and keynote lectures at international conferences and seminars. Ian has also been the UK partner in an EU funded Early Years physical education project which has brought together teachers and academics from Greece, Finland, Cyprus, Italy and England. He is committed to developing teaching and coaching methods that can effectively deliver a wide range of programme goals.

Ian has published 'Teaching Physical Education in the Primary School: A Developmental Approach' (2007, Continuum; with Lawry Price) and co-authored a prestigious British Education Research Association Academic Review entitled ‘The Educational Benefits Claimed for Physical Education and School Sport’. He has also contributed chapters to a number of other publications.

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 September 2008 and currently chairs the PASL workforce development group. Ian Chaired the South London Lifelong Learning Network's Sport Leisure and Tourism sector group from 2007 to 2009 and has recently been co-opted to the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Advisory Group.

Recent Publications

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.