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Training Sports Officials' Communication: From a toolbox of skills to adapting appropriately to audience and situation (2024)
Book Chapter
Cunningham, I., Mascarenhas, D., & Simmons, P. (2024). Training Sports Officials' Communication: From a toolbox of skills to adapting appropriately to audience and situation. In P. M. Pedersen (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication. (2nd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430278-41

Effective communication is essential to effective officiating. More than simply learning signals and instructions, officials across sports must adapt appropriately to numerous contextual variables, including the match situations, individual player di... Read More about Training Sports Officials' Communication: From a toolbox of skills to adapting appropriately to audience and situation.

Building Knowledge of the Game to Make Effective Decisions (2024)
Book Chapter
Mascarenhas, D. R. D. (2024). Building Knowledge of the Game to Make Effective Decisions. In T. Webb, D. J. Hancock, P. Phillips, & J. K. Tingle (Eds.), Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence (127-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003370987-15

This chapter provides a synopsis of the research into decision making, highlighting the different types of decisions that sports officials are confronted with. Focusing primarily on more subjective decisions, I discuss the importance of having an off... Read More about Building Knowledge of the Game to Make Effective Decisions.

Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health (2024)
Journal Article
Carter, T. B., Gorczynski, P., Coady, C. J., Cunningham, I. J., Mascarenhas, D. R. D., Grant, M., Sullivan, P., Webb, T., Livingston, L. A., & Hancock, D. J. (2024). Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 6, Article 1436149. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2024.1436149

Introduction: Sport officials are tasked with applying rules, maintaining fairness, and ensuring athlete safety. However, sport officials experience anxiety, burnout, and non-accidental violence, with the incidence of these events increasing worldwid... Read More about Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health.

An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being (2024)
Journal Article
Barrow, C. J., Westbury, T., Cunningham, I., & Mascarenhas, D. (in press). An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2326704

Research aim
The purpose of this research was to explore the views and experiences of international volunteer netball officials about their well-being and its contributing factors.

Research methods
A qualitative methodology, involving semi-struc... Read More about An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being.

Using Mobile 360° Video as a Tool for Enhancing Sport Referee Performance: A Case Study (2023)
Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Roche, L., & Mascarenhas, D. (2023). Using Mobile 360° Video as a Tool for Enhancing Sport Referee Performance: A Case Study. Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1123/cssep.2023-0002

Many new video-based technologies (e.g., eye trackers, point-of-view camera) have been integrated into sport referee performance monitoring and training. Mobile 360° video (an omnidirectional video-capture tool affixed to the referee during their per... Read More about Using Mobile 360° Video as a Tool for Enhancing Sport Referee Performance: A Case Study.

First-person video recordings with eye tracking glasses and cognitive task analysis as a framework for referee decision training (2022)
Journal Article
Mascarenhas, D., Birtwhistle, J., & Martindale, A. (online). First-person video recordings with eye tracking glasses and cognitive task analysis as a framework for referee decision training. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2022.2134186

Rationale
In comparison to players little is known about how sports officials integrate perception and cognition to manage in-game decisions.

Design
Using a naturalistic approach this paper uses first-person eye-tracked video footage to document... Read More about First-person video recordings with eye tracking glasses and cognitive task analysis as a framework for referee decision training.

Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage (2018)
Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., & Mascarenhas, D. (2018). Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.009

Communication is central to managing perceptions of fairness and performance in sport officiating. Most of the few studies that focus on sport official communication have been limited to ‘one-way’ impressions and decision communication and tend to ne... Read More about Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage.

Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes (2016)
Journal Article
Richards, P., Collins, D., & Mascarenhas, D. R. D. (2017). Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes. Sports Coaching Review, 6(1), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2016.1200819

This paper explores the complexity of developing decision- making (DM) skills in team sports. Research from the domains of motor control, perception and pedagogy ( Teaching Games for Understanding and Game Sense) has signi cantly enhanced our knowled... Read More about Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes.

Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials (2015)
Journal Article
Mascarenhas, D., Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., & Redhead, S. (2015). Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials. Movement and Sport Sciences - Science and Motricité, 87(87), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1051/sm/2014021

Abstract. oðciating, but player-oðcial in- teraction is diðcult to train and unresearched. This study interviewed team captains from di erent sports and used video elicitation and Go man’s (The presentation of self in everyday life, 1959, Interaction... Read More about Exploring player communication in interactions with sport officials.

Skilled interaction: Concepts of communication and player management in the development of sports officials (2014)
Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Simmons, P., Mascarenhas, D., & Redhead, S. (2014). Skilled interaction: Concepts of communication and player management in the development of sports officials. International Journal of Sport Communication, 7(2), 166-187. https://doi.org/10.1123/IJSC.2013-0098

Communication and player management are integral to effective sport of ciating, but most research has focused on physical performance and decision making. The few previous studies of of ciating communication tended to use “transmission” conceptualiza... Read More about Skilled interaction: Concepts of communication and player management in the development of sports officials.