DrShaun Galloway

I am originally from Western Canada (Penticton, B.C.). Growing up I played many sports at the provincial level - however, I played Junior A (tier 1) ice hockey. I guess that would be akin to playing for a Premiership academy U18 club. Since 10 I had been doing karate and once I finished ice hockey I switched to karate and was on the Canadian national team for kimute (60-65kg in the same organisation that will be introduced to the Japanese Olympics - WKF).

I have lived, worked and studied in 6 different countries prior to coming to the UK (Japan, Australia, Greece, Hungary, Czech Rep, and Kuwait). My educational studies consisted of the following degrees: BSc Kinesiology, BEd physical education, MSc Social Psychology, MPE physical education, and a PhD in psychophysiology with 3 years of taught applied clinical psychology studies - it total 5 years of study).

After teaching in Kuwait I came back to Hungary to finish my PhD. Then I went to Canada and started a sport psychology practice (averaging 6 hours of support 6 days a week for a year). After a year in Canada, I interviewed at the University of Wolverhampton in the summer of 2003. I was hired and started as the course leader of the BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching degree.