{"id":1209,"date":"2025-03-14T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2025-03-14T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:20:05","slug":"expanding-the-gsspps-professional-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/2025\/03\/14\/expanding-the-gsspps-professional-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the GSSPP\u2019s professional network\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/brownlee-thomas\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/brownlee-thomas\"> Dr Tom Brownlee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/2cb807d3-ead3-4f93-8ffe-e95069163f09-250x188.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It was a pleasure to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/drust-barry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/drust-barry\">Prof Barry Drust <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/anderson-liam\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/anderson-liam\">Dr Liam Anderson<\/a> recently at the Premier League for the day. The day launched a new initiative for the Premier League to support Academy practitioners in achieving their BASES accreditation.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This is the first cohort embarking on a bespoke route of <\/em><em>BASES supported <\/em><em>direct application, which we have been working hard on over the last year with <\/em><em>Dr <\/em><em>Gill Myburgh and Dr Matt Green of the Premier League.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The pathway seeks to help those with sufficient experience for direct application who need an element of advising throughout the process, while also juggling their applied roles. It was a fantastic day getting to know the intake as well as learning of the <\/em><em>Premier League\u2019<\/em><em>s aspirations for the project moving forwards.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>More broadly, the invitation to be involved in the planning and execution of this initiative for GSSPP staff is a real honour and further expands the group\u2019s network through the individuals we will be working alongside during the process<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/Tom-Brownlee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/Tom-Brownlee.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/Tom-Brownlee-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/Tom-Brownlee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/03\/Tom-Brownlee-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>T.Brownlee@bham.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Tom Brownlee It was a pleasure to join Prof Barry Drust and Dr Liam Anderson recently at the Premier League for the day. The day launched a new initiative for the Premier League to support Academy practitioners in achieving their BASES accreditation.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first cohort embarking on a bespoke route of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/2025\/03\/14\/expanding-the-gsspps-professional-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Expanding the GSSPP\u2019s professional network\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[289,46,23,174,12],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-applied-work","tag-communication","tag-development","tag-industry","tag-professional-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}