In this episode author and academic Dr. Richard Elliott joins Gordon MacLelland to discuss ‘Mental Health and Sport’ and how we can best support elite athletes and young high performers.
During the conversation they discuss amongst other things:
- Enjoying the journey as a family from development centre to young professional
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Richard Elliott is Associate Dean at University Campus of Football Business (UCFB). He has spent more than twenty years researching the lived experiences of elite athletes and the environments in which they work. He is the co-editor of Football and Migration: Perspectives, places, players (Routledge, 2014), editor of The English Premier League: A socio-cultural analysis (Routledge, 2017), and author of Mental Health and Sport: Supporting Elite Athletes (Routledge, 2024). An advocate for mental health literacy, Richard has developed a number of successful education programmes designed to support the mental and emotional wellbeing of elite athletes.
Richards latest book on this topic can be found here.
