Verity Allen

As a lecturer practitioner, Verity has a significant amount of industry experience. She has spent 15 years working in the Sports Development sector, working with a number of key partners, as well delivering community and school coaching. She is a level 2 hockey coach, is also qualified to coach cricket and basketball, and is experienced in delivering leadership courses.

verity.allen@aru.ac.uk

Twitter: @ARU_Sport

Background

Verity first joined ARU in 2014, working for Team ARU and also Corporate Marketing. Before this she worked for a local authority within a Sports Development and Leisure team.

Her specialisms and interests lie in the development of sport across the UK, especially grassroots sports, sport development initiatives within the community, as well as applied sports coaching.

Teaching

• BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Physical Education
• BSc (Hons) Coaching for Performance in Football

Qualifications

• PG CERT - Anglia Ruskin University
• BSc (Hons) Sports Development and Coaching- Sheffield Hallam University
• Level 2 Hockey coach
• Level 1 Basketball Coach
• Level 1 Cricket coach
• First aid certificate
• Mental Health First Aid certificate
• Safeguarding and Protecting children certificate
• Sports Leaders UK Tutor award