This creates a critical mismatch - players are prepared using decontextualised training for highly contextualised match demands. Understanding and addressing this gap is therefore essential for improving training specificity, load prescription, injury risk management and performance transfer from training to competition.

This PhD will develop and evaluate an integrated contextually driven framework combining GPS-derived physical data with technical and tactical (TT) performance data to enhance performance decision-making in elite football. It will identify relationships between physical load metrics and TT behaviours at individual and team levels and explore how integrated contextual performance data is interpreted and used by coaches and practitioners within elite football environments. It will further examine the perceived impact of integrated analytics on training design, tactical planning and match-day decision-making whilst co-designing (with practitioners) practical decision-support tools that align with elite football workflows.

This PhD is an applied embedded study at Queen’s Park Rangers FC, utilising the Catapult Pro suite of products. The student will be based in London and base the majority of their time from the QPR training facility.

Interviews to be held in London w/c 10th August.

This creates a critical mismatch - players are prepared using decontextualised training for highly contextualised match demands. Understanding and addressing this gap is therefore essential for improving training specificity, load prescription, injury risk management and performance transfer from training to competition.

This PhD will develop and evaluate an integrated contextually driven framework combining GPS-derived physical data with technical and tactical (TT) performance data to enhance performance decision-making in elite football. It will identify relationships between physical load metrics and TT behaviours at individual and team levels and explore how integrated contextual performance data is interpreted and used by coaches and practitioners within elite football environments. It will further examine the perceived impact of integrated analytics on training design, tactical planning and match-day decision-making whilst co-designing (with practitioners) practical decision-support tools that align with elite football workflows.

This PhD is an applied embedded study at Queen’s Park Rangers FC, utilising the Catapult Pro suite of products. The student will be based in London and base the majority of their time from the QPR training facility.

Interviews to be held in London w/c 10th August.