Andy Borrie is currently Senior Lecturer in Coaching and Professional Practice at the University of Derby, UK and has more than 30 years of experience in high performance sport and applied sport science.

Charlotte Chandler is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Derby, UK and acts as Postgraduate Coordinator for sport and exercise programmes.

Andy Hooton is Head of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Derby, UK and an HCPC-Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist.

Andy Miles is a Principal Lecturer at Cardiff Met, UK and was the School of Sport's Director of Enterprise for 10 years.

Paula Watson is an HCPC-Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist in independent practice (Made Up To Move Ltd). She has extensive experience in the field of health behaviour change, both within and outside higher education.

PART I

Context and environment

2 The development and purpose of standards in sport and exercise

NATHAN REEVES AND ANDY MILES

3 Working contexts: The reality of being in the field

LAURA CAREY

4 Professional ethics: Navigating the challenging moments

EMILY RYALL, ANDY BORRIE AND PAULA WATSON

PART II

Being a professional practitioner

5 Getting to know you: Understanding identity and role

CHARLOTTE CHANDLER, ANDY HOOTON AND MARTIN TURNER

6 Getting to know your team: Inter-disciplinary working with others

EMMA COWLEY, JENNIFER JAMES AND JONTY NORRIS

7 Getting to know your client: The importance of 'really listening'

PAULA WATSON, REBECCA LEVETT AND CHRIS MARSHALL

8 Organisational culture in sports: Perspectives, traps, and entry points for cultural practitioners

NIELS FEDDERSEN, MICHAEL MCDOUGALL AND JOHN DOWNEY

9 Reflective practice: The core of professional and personal learning

EMMA HUNTLEY, LAURA JOHNSON AND SAM NAPIER

PART III

Tales from the field

10 'Relentless, emotional and amazing': Working in high-performance sport

ANDY BORRIE AND LAURA BORRIE

11 'A challenging but rewarding path': Working with disability populations

LOUISE FERRANDINO, SIMON BRILEY AND TOM O'BRIEN

12 'We are all scousers now': Integrating ethnically diverse communities through sport and physical activity (The Toxteth FireFit Hub)

MARTIN COOPER, SHARIF YUSUF, ANTHONY WILLIAMS AND DAVE SCOTT

13 'Balancing the psychosocial and the physiological': The day-to-day realities of cardiac rehabilitation

ANTHONY CROZIER AND JOHN BUCKLEY

14 'It isn't all child's play': Working with children and young people

ZOE KNOWLES, HANNAH GOSS, CARA SHEARER AND FREDDIE TURNER

PART IV

Reflections

15 Effectiveness in practice: Principles of evaluation

CHARLOTTE CHANDLER AND TIM DONOVAN

16 Looking across the lines: Common views and shared challenges

ANDY HOOTON, PAULA WATSON, ANDY MILES, CHARLOTTE CHANDLER AND ANDY BORRIE