Dr Grace Tidmarsh BA, MRes, MA, PhD

Dr Grace Tidmarsh

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow

Contact details

Email
g.tidmarsh@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@grace_tidmarsh
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Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Grace Tidmarsh is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow whose expertise lies in process evaluations and translating sport psychology to complex community settings and has played a key role in large public engagement activities at The Exchange and has won prestigious awards for her research including the Young Investigator Award at the European College of Sport Science Congress in 2019.

Qualifications

  • BA History with Sports Studies
  • MRes Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • MA Social Science Research Methods
  • PhD Sport and Exercise Psychology 

Biography

Dr Grace Tidmarsh did graduate work on the positive youth development programme National Citizen Service (NCS) and completed an ESRC funded PhD at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with community partner St Basils. Her PhD was a process evaluation that investigated the delivery style of a strengths-based mental skills training programme delivered to support young people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. She subsequently worked at the University of Birmingham as Teaching Fellow before taking up a dual role as Research and Teaching Fellow.

Teaching

Dr Grace Tidmarsh teaches on the Sport and Mental Health (Level 6) module.

Postgraduate supervision

  • Kirsty Brown MSc by Research
  • Nadia Samsudin, PhD 

Research

Dr Tidmarsh is interested is a social scientist with interests relating to strengths-based sport psychology, implementation, and evaluation of positive youth development interventions in community settings. She is particularly interested in aspects of evaluation pertaining to implementation processes and the development and implementation of accessible data collection methods that meet the needs of those using them to promote inclusive research. Dr Tidmarsh also has broad research interests in mental health, youth homelessness, and girls engagement in sport and physical activity.

Other activities

Dr Grace Tidmarsh is a member of:

  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES)
  • Qualitive Research in Sport and Exercise (QRSE)
  • European College of Sport Science (ECSS)

Publications

  • Tidmarsh, G., Kinnafick, F. E., & Johnston, J. P. (2022). The role of the motivational climate in female engagement in secondary school physical education: a dual study investigation. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14(1), 68-83.
  • Tidmarsh, G., Whiting, R., Thompson, J. L., & Cumming, J. (2022). Assessing the fidelity of delivery style of a mental skills training programme for young people experiencing homelessness. Evaluation and Program Planning, 94, 102150. 
  • Tidmarsh, G., Thompson, J. L., Quinton, M. L., & Cumming, J. (2022). Process evaluations of positive youth development programmes for disadvantaged young people: A systematic review. Journal of Youth Development, 17(2), 106-140. 
  • Tidmarsh, G., Thompson, J. L., Quinton, M. L., Parry, B. J., Cooley, S. J., & Cumming, J. (2022). A platform for youth voice in MST4Life: A vital component of process evaluations. Sport Exerc. Psychol. Rev, 17, 73-86. 
  • Quinton, M. L., Tidmarsh, G., Parry, B. J., & Cumming, J. (2022). A Kirkpatrick model process evaluation of reactions and learning from my strengths training for life™. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(18), 11320.

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