Dr Tom Doncom
FHEA, MSc, BA (Hons)

Tom has taught at Solent University for a couple of years after initially being employed as an associate lecturer in qualitative approaches within psychology.

As well as teaching a range of qualitative methods, Tom also began to teach on some of our sport psychology modules including Mind-Body Connections which then allowed him to progress into the full-time role in August 2023 within the Department of Sport and Health.

Tom has also provided guest lectures at several different UK institutes on his PhD research.

Doncom, T., Morris, R., Hartley, C., & Coffee, P. (2022). Attributions are never made in vacuum. Social Identity and a novel attributional retraining in sport intervention [Conference presentation]. 3rd International Conference on Social Identity in Sport, Liverpool.

Doncom, T., Morris, R., Hartley, C., Coffee, P., & Maiden, J. (2022). Co-production of a novel intervention in sport [Conference presentation]. Department of Sport and Exercise Psychology Annual Conference, Swansea.

Tom’s research interests stem from social psychology in sport and in particular the translation of academic research into applied practice. Currently Tom’s focus is the development of his Attribution Retraining in Sport (ARiS) intervention as a product of his PhD, however Tom also has ongoing projects relating to student mental wellbeing, social identity in sport, and qualitative explorations of injury rehabilitation experiences for ACL injuries in women’s soccer.