Duncan MascarenhasEdinburgh Napier University · School of Applied Sciences
Duncan Mascarenhas
PhD University of Edinburgh
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February 2018 - present
August 2006 - January 2016
August 2006 - March 2017
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Publications (24)
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 neglect more dynamic, dialogic interactions with players. This study explored sport officials’ identit...
Executive summary
We've always known communication is an essential skill set to officiating, but sports have struggled to help officials improve their interaction and game management skills. This project explored what some call the 'hidden curriculum'-improving communication through game experience and informal advice from peers, mentors, and coach...
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 significantly enhanced our knowledge of DM in sport. However, such studies although contributing knowledge, have explored elements of D...
Communication and player management are central to officiating, but player-official interaction is difficult to train and unresearched. This study interviewed team captains from different sports and used video elicitation and Goffman's (The presentation of self in everyday life, 1959, Interaction ritual: Essays in face-to-face behaviour, 1967) dram...
Communication and player management are integral to effective sport officiating but most research has focused on physical performance and decision-making. The few previous studies of officiating communication tend to use ‘transmission’ conceptualisations of communication (e.g., decision communication, impression management). Eleven officiating deve...
Although researchers have independently investigated the physical and decision-making (DM) demands experienced by sports officials, the combined impact of locomotion and physiological factors upon DM has received little attention. Using an innovative combination of video and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology this study explored the movemen...
The application of law, combined with contextual judgment and communication have been shown to be essential skills of the elite sports official (Mascarenhas, Collins & Mortimer, 2005). Further, the behaviours that officials demonstrate to communicate decisions to sport participants have important implications for match outcomes and perceptions of f...
This paper explores the complexity of developing decision-making skills in elite netball. Using the attacking centre pass as a theme, we present a framework designed to develop decision-making capabilities of the coach, performers and the players collectively as a team. The paper exemplifies the integration of reflective practice principles into co...
The purpose of this paper is to exemplify the integration of reflective practice principles into coaching strategies as a means to facilitate performers engaging with their own development. Accordingly, the paper describes a two‐part reflective practice intervention used with elite hockey players. Engagement and empowerment were promoted through a...
Although researchers have independently investigated the physical and decision-making (DM) demands expe- rienced by sports officials, the combined impact of locomotion and physiological factors upon DM has received little at- tention. Using an innovative combination of video and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology this study explored the mov...
Traditionally, sports officials have only received a modicum of attention in sport science research literature. Perhaps more surprisingly, only recently have researchers begun to investigate key aspects of refereeing performance such as making judgments, communication behaviors and decision-making training interventions. With this in mind, we have...
The purpose of this investigation was to pilot the use of a video-based training program designed to develop referees’ shared mental models. A group of English Rugby Football Union (RFU) national referees, divided into a control group (n = 15) and experimental group (n = 41) made their immediate decisions on pre and posttests of 10 video recordings...
Plessner and Betsch’s (2001) investigation into officiating behavior may be representative of a shift from stress-orientated research (Anshel & Weinberg, 1995; Rainey & Winterich, 1995; Stewart & Ellery, 1996) to consideration of decisionmaking (Craven, 1998; Ford, Gallagher, Lacy, Bridwell & Goodwin, 1999; Oudejans, Verheijen, Bakker, Gerrits, Ste...
The purpose of this preliminary investigation was to use a Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) paradigm to assess the decision-making accuracy, agreement and coherence of 132 of England’s best Rugby Football Union (RFU) officials. Following presentation of video recordings of actual game scenarios, 45 referees, 47 touch-judges, 27 assessors and 13 r...
To identify a framework for referee training and selection, based on the key areas of effective performance, we conducted content analyses on Rugby Football Union referee assessor reports, referee training materials, performance profiles from a group of English premier league referees, and a review of published research on sports officiating. The C...
Projects
Project (1)
Newer suggestions from within the officiating field propose game activities (and, in turn, officiating performance) is a 'co-constructed' process with the players (Cunningham et al., 2018; Rix-Lievre et al., 2015; Russell et al., 2019). Captains occupy a specialised leadership role in rugby union sport teams. They interact more frequently with the match official than other players. Their formal and informal communication with the official represents a ‘hub-like’ role as a point for sharing information about decisions and match interpretations with teammates and coaches.
The aim of this multi-study, project was to understand salient elements and preoccupations in sport team captains' and referees' activity during match interactions with one another.
We studied high-level European rugby union matches and conducted auto-confrontation interviews with captains and referees following matches.
Findings currently in process and pending.
