Dr Paul R Ford has been working in collaboration with Dr Allistair McRobert, senior lecturer in Performance Analysis within the School of Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores Univeristy since 2014.

Dr Ford and Dr McRobert work together on projects examining skill acquisition in football.

Links to journal publications

How experts practice: a novel test of deliberate practice theory

Perceptual-cognitive skills and their interaction as a function of task constraints in soccer

The microstructure of practice activities engaged in by elite and recreational youth cricket players