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Karen Howells

Karen Howells

Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies

Professional biography
Karen is a Lecturer in Sport and Fitness as part of the Faculty of Education and Languages at the Open University. She is a Chartered Sport Psychologist and has provided sport and performance psychology support to athletes from a wide range of individual and team sports. Karen isaLecturer in Sport and Fitness.Previously shehas workedas a lecturer in psychology and sport psychology in various face-to-face universities and higher education colleges. Karen’s specialist area is sport and performance psychology. She is a Chartered Sport Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is registered with theHealth and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She has provided sport and performance psychology support to athletes from a wide range of individual and team sports. She has also delivered non-technical skills to teams within the Oil and Gas Industryand is an ex-Royal Air Force Officer.She is also a UKCC Level 2 swimming coach. Karen's research interests are in the area of elite sport performance particularly in relation to adversity and psychological growth and applied sport psychology consultancy.

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