Active Soles, Active Minds: Transforming Learning Through Movement - Featuring Craig Hobbs, Senior Lecturer, Sport, Physical Activity and Health, University of Greater Manchester.

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Active Soles, Active Minds: Transforming Learning Through Movement - Featuring Craig Hobbs, Senior Lecturer, Sport, Physical Activity and Health, University of Greater Manchester.

TIRIgogy ConnectED Podcasts

27 minutes 39 seconds

2 months ago

Active Soles, Active Minds: Transforming Learning Through Movement - Featuring Craig Hobbs, Senior Lecturer, Sport, Physical Activity and Health, University of Greater Manchester.

In this episode, we critically discuss with Craig, learnings from the ASLW pilot, co-created with diverse cohorts of the University of Greater Manchester health and society students, using Education Design Research (EDR) methodology (McKenney and Reeves, 2021) and five phases: (1) Analysis & Exploration, (2) Design & Construction, (3) Evaluation & Reflection, (4) Theory & Practice, and (5) Implementation & Spread.

Adopting a critical realist ontology (Bhaskar, 1975), Craig explores how the holistic experiential learning principles of belonging, sensing, feeling, thinking, being (Beard, 2022) - influence the function of ASLW case study, by critically appraising the core phases of educational design research. In February 2025, Craig delivered a lightening seminar of his Active Soles, Active Minds research to the Sport Critical Pedagogies and Global Education Network, which is available on You Tube at; Active soles, active minds: education design research approach to understanding and implementing experiential learning walks beyond campus realms.

Craig Hobbs is currently Senior Lecturer – Sport, Physical Activity and Health at the University of Greater Manchester, with over 30 years ‘pracademic’ sport, education, business and public health ecosystem leadership and management experience. He is a PhD candidate, pursuing an appreciative research inquiry into; ‘Connecting & Mobilising the Gown & Town: Exploration of the Associational Life of Active Campus Communities.’ Craig is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA) and Chartered Management Fellow of The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).