Dr Natalie Walker
 Post Held
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Contact Details
Office: Mobile 10, room 3
Telephone: 01604 892490
Email: natalie.walker@northampton.ac.uk
Qualifications
BSc, PCLT, PhD
After graduating with a BSc in Sport Science from the University of Teesside, Dr. Walker begun teaching at the University of Teesside whilst continuing as a Research Student. Dr. Walker transferred from MPhil. Study to PhD whilst registered as a Research Student at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She attained her doctorate in the summer of 2006.
Dr Walkers' sporting interests include dog agility and Association Football (both coaching and competing). She is also a 2nd Dan Ju-Jitsu coach.
Research Interests
Dr Walkers' main research interests are the psychology of sport and exercise injuries, the use of psychological skills to enhance athletic performance, group dynamic in sport, re-injury anxiety and exercise dependence and body image concerns.
Professional Memberships
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (Sport & Exercise Psychology)
Recent publications
- Walker, N., Thatcher, J., & Lavallee, D. (2007). Psychological responses to injury in competitive sport: a critical review. The Journal of Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 127, 174-180.
- Walker, N., Thatcher, J., & Lavallee, D. The meaning of sports injury and re-injury anxiety measurement and intervention (PhD Thesis). Aberystwyth (UK). The University of Wales, 2006.
- Walker, N., Thatcher, J., Lavallee, D. & Golby, J. (2005). The emotional response to athletic injury: Re-Injury Anxiety. In Lavallee, D., Thatcher, J., & Jones, M. (Eds.) (2004). Coping and emotion in Sport (pp.91-103). New York. Nova Science.
- Hudson, J. & Walker, N. (2002). Metamotivational State Reversals during match-play golf: An idiographic approach. The Sport Psychologist, 16(2), 200-217.
- Walker, N. Thatcher, J. Lavallee, D. and Golby, J. (2002). A longitudinal study of emotional
responses to sports injury (Abstract). In Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 10(2), 106.
- Walker, N & Thatcher, J. The psychological response to injury: A case study of University Rugby League Players (Abstract). In 12th Commonwealth International Sport Conference 19-23rd July, 2002. Manchester, UK, p.315.
- Walker, N. (2001). You must be choking. Men's Health Magazine, Dec, 71-76.
- Short article written for Match of the Day Magazine following the applied work with the football team on building cohesion within the team.
Invited Presentations
Northampton Sports Symposium. Northampton Saints. Contributor: Oral presentation on the work of a sport psychologist. 2006.
St Mary's Research Forum. Contributor: Oral presentation on the lived in experiences of athletic injury.
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