Dr Jack Brimmell

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Psychology

Department of Performance, Health and Wellbeing

Contact Details

Jack obtained his PhD from York St John University and examined attentional control and perceptual-cognition in sportspeople. Jack also holds an MSc in sport psychology and a BSc in sport and exercise science from the University of Gloucestershire.

Jack has previously worked with elite sporting organisations (i.e., the Premier League, the RFU and professional Women’s football teams) to try and use sport psychology to enhance performance. Jack is published in a number of top level sport psychology journals and is also reviewing work for these journals.

He is predominately interested in how feelings of anxiety and stress can disrupt attentional control and perceptual-cognition during pressurised sport performance. More long term, Jack hopes to build evidence-based resources that will allow individuals at all levels of performance maintain or improve performance under pressure. Alongside this Jack is interested in: statistics, training in virtual reality, executive function, visual attention, and research methods and methodology.

Qualifications

PhD
MSc
BSc (Hons)
AFHEA

Teaching Interests

Research Methods (Quantitative)
Cognitive Psychology
Sport and Exercise Psychology

Research Interests

Attentional Control
Perceptual-Cognition
Decision-Making
Data Scraping and Coding
Executive Function
Virtual Reality
Performance Under Pressure

Recent Publications

Wood, G., Shutz, L., Uiga, L., Brimmell, J., & Furley, P. (2023). The BASES expert statement on the relationship between executive functions and sport and exercise. The Sport & Exercise Scientist.

Vaughan, R. S., Brimmell, J., & Krenn, B. (2023). Cognitive functioning – The role of executive functions in elite athletes mental health. In I. Nixdorf, J. Beckmann, T. MacIntyre, S. Martin, & R. Nixdorf (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Mental Health in Elite Sport. Abingdon: Routledge.

Brimmell, J., Edwards, E. J., & Vaughan, R. S. (2022). Executive function and visual attention in sport: A systematic review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2022.2145574.

Brimmell, J., Edwards, E. J., Smith, M. S., & Vaughan, R. S. (2021). Think, see, do: Executive function, visual attention, and soccer penalty performance. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 10(2), 290. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000265.

Vaughan, R. S., Hagyard, J. D., Brimmell, J., Edwards, E. J. (2020). The effect of trait emotional intelligence on working-memory across athletic expertise. Journal of Sport Sciences, 1-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1840039.

Hagyard, J. D., Brimmell, J., Edwards, E. J., & Vaughan, R. S. (2020). Inhibitory control across athletic expertise and its relationship with sport performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 43(1), 14-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2020-0043.

Brimmell, J., Parker, J., Wilson, M. R., Vine, S. J., & Moore, L. J. (2018). Challenge and threat states, performance, and attentional control during a pressurized soccer penalty task. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 8(1), 63-79. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000147.

Brimmell, J., Parker, J., Furley., P., & Moore, L. J. (2018). Nonverbal behavior accompanying challenge and threat states under pressure. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 90-94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.003.

External Roles

Reviewer for multiple Sport and Exercise Psychology/Science Journals
External Reviewer for UCB
Consulting for VAR at Premier League