Dr Michael Kellmann

DiplPsych(Wuerzburg), PhD(Wuerzburg), Habil(Potsdam)

• Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology
• Joint appointment with the School of Psychology

Contact details

Rm 527
Phone: (+61) 7 3365 6736
Fax: (+61) 7 3365 6877
E-mail: mkellmann@hms.uq.edu.au

Background

Michael Kellmann completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in January 2002 in the area of recovery research and his doctoral dissertation in 1997 at Würzburg University (Germany) in the area of coaches' behaviour during rest periods. From April 2002 until March 2007 he was Head of the Department of Sport Psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science at Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). He is currently a Senior Lecturer holding a joint appointment with the School of Human Movement Studies and the School of Psychology.

Dr Kellmann is a member of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and the German Psychological Association. In addition, he served for six years on the Executive Board of the German Association of Sport Psychology and is on the editorial board of The Sport Psychologist, Sciences and Techniques of Physical Activities and Sports, the Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie (German Journal of Sport Psychology), and the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin (German Journal of Sport Medicine).

Research Interests

Michael Kellmann's current research activities include overtraining prevention and recovery enhancement, sport psychological diagnostics and intervention, coach behaviour during competition and practice, as well as personality and performance competence of coaches in sports.

Michael's work has appeared in several publications. He is co-author of Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User Manual and edited the book Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Underperformance in Athletes both published by Human Kinetics (USA).

Sport psychology consultation

In his applied work, Michael Kellmann has consulted with and conducted research for the National Sport Centre Calgary in Canada, the Olympic Training Centres in Potsdam and Dortmund/Bochum (Germany), and was the Head Sport Psychologist of the German National Rowing Federation. Under his supervision, the team of the Department of Sport Psychology at Ruhr-University of Bochum has established sport psychological consultation for four German sport federations. Michael was the chair of the only education, training, and certification program for German sport psychologist "Sport psychology in high performance sport" of the German Association of Sport Psychology and the German Psychologists Board.

Selected Publications

from 2001

Beckmann, J., & Kellmann, M. (Eds.). (in press). Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Anwendungen der Sportpsychologie [Encyclopedia of psychology: Applications of sport psychology]. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Elbe, A.-M., & Kellmann, M. (2007). Recovery following training and competition. In B. Blumenstein, R. Lidor, & G. Tenenbaum (Eds.), Psychology of sport and training (pp. 162-185). Aachen: Meyer & Meyer.

Kellmann, M., Beckmann, J., & Kopczynski, S. (2006). Sportpsychologische Diagnostik im Leistungssport [ Sportpsychological diagnostics in high performance sport]. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 13, 1-7.

Kellmann, M., Bußmann, G., Anders, D., & Schulte, S. (2005). Psychological aspects of rowing. In J. Dosil (Ed.), The sport psychologist's handbook: A guide for sport-specific performance enhancement (pp. 479-501). London, UK : Wiley.

Beckmann, J., & Kellmann, M. (2004). Self-regulation and recovery: Approaching an understanding of the process of recovery from stress. Psychological Reports, 95, 1135-1153.

Kellmann, M. ( 2004 ). Overtraining and burnout in sports. In Ch. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of applied psychology (Vol. 2,S. 779-784). San Diego: Elsevier.

Martin, S.B., Lavallee, D., Kellmann, M., & Page, S.J. (2004). United States, United Kingdom, and German adult athletes' attitudes toward sport psychology consulting. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 2, 146-160 .

Beckmann, J., & Kellmann, M. (2003). Procedures and principles of sport psychological sssessment. The Sport Psychologist, 17, 338-350.

Kellmann, M., & Beckmann, J. (2003). Research and intervention in sport psychology: New perspectives for an inherent conflict. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1, 13-26.

Kellmann, M., & Golenia, M. (2003). Skalen zur Erfassung der aktuellen Befindlichkeit im Sport [Mood assessments in sports]. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin, 54, 329-330.

Kellmann, M. (Ed.). (2002). Enhancing recovery: Preventing underperformance in athletes. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

Kellmann, M. (2002). Underrecovery and overtraining: Different concepts - similar impact? In M. Kellmann (Ed.), Enhancing recovery: Preventing underperformance in athletes (pp. 3-24) . Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

Kellmann, M. (2002). Psychological assessment of underrecovery. In M. Kellmann (Ed.), Enhancing recovery: Preventing underperformance in athletes (pp. 37-55) . Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

Kellmann, M. (2002). Current status and directions of recovery research. In M. Kellmann (Ed.), Enhancing recovery: Preventing underperformance in athletes (pp. 219-229). Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

Kellmann, M., Patrick, T., Botterill, C., & Wilson, C. (2002). The recovery-cue and its use in applied settings: Practical suggestions regarding assessment and monitoring of recovery. In M. Kellmann (Ed.), Enhancing recovery: Preventing underperformance in athletes (pp. 301-311). Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

Hogg, J., & Kellmann, M. (2002). Debriefing im Leistungssport [Debriefing in elite sports]. Psychologie und Sport, 9, 90-96.

Martin, S.B., Kellmann, M., Lavallee, D., & Page, S.J. (2002). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Sport Psychology Attitudes - Revised Form: A multiple group investigation. The Sport Psychologist, 16, 272-290.

Kellmann, M., & Kallus, K.W. (2001). The Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes; User Manual. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics.

 

Research Students

Doctor of Philosophy (Principal)

• Shaun Stevens

Master of Philosophy (Principal)

• Melina Simjanovic
• Yeon Scherk Tan