Professor Andrew Hill

Teaching

My teaching experience is primarily in the areas of research methods and sport and exercise psychology. I now deliver training sessions to staff and postgraduate students as part of our continual professional development programmes. I have been an external examiner on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and examined PhD students in the UK and abroad.

Research

My research focuses on the consequences of perfectionism – a common personality trait - for athletes, dancers and exercisers, as well as other achievement contexts (e.g., education and the workplace).

It has been funded by a number of organisations, including the Wellcome Trust, The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research, National Association of Able Children in Education, The Higher Education Academy, National Health Service, and The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, and involves a network of collaborators and former postdoctoral students from across the world.

I was recently included in a list of the top 150 eminent sport and exercise psychology researchers in the world based on citation of research, placing in the top 20 in the UK (Kinesiology Review, 2024).

I direct a Motivation, Performance, and Wellbeing (MPaW) research group that includes fellow academic staff and postgraduate research students.

Publications

• Etherson, M., Smith, M. M., Hill, A. P., Sherry, S., Curran, T., Flett, G. L., & Hewitt, P. L. (2024). Perfectionism, feelings of not mattering, and suicide ideation: An integrated test of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model and the Existential Model of Perfectionism. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 42(6), 725-742.
• Hill, A. P., Madigan, D. J., Curran, T., Jowett, G. E., & Rumbold, J. (2024). Exploring and evaluating the Two-Factor Model of Perfectionism in sport. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 42(6), 612-634.
• Nordin-Bates, S. M., Madigan, D. J., Hill, A. P., & Olsson, L. (2024). Perfectionism and performance in sport: Exploring non-linear relationships with track and field athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 70, 102552.
• Watson, D. R., Hill, A. P., Madigan, D. J., & Donachie, T. (2023). Effectiveness of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy programme for perfectionism in soccer players. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 13(1), 5-22.
• Waleriańczyk, W., Hill, A. P., & Stolarski, M. (2023). A conditional process model of perfectionism, goal-realization, and post-competition mood. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 69, 102511.
• Olsson, L., Hill, A. P., Madigan, D. J., Woodley, G. (2020). Development of perfectionism in junior athletes: Examination of actual and perceived parental perfectionism. Journal of Sport Sciences, 38, 669-675.
• Donachie, T. Hill, A. P. & Madigan, D. J. (2019). Perfectionism and pre-competition emotions in youth footballers: A three-wave longitudinal test of the mediating role of perfectionistic cognitions. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 41, 309-319.
• Hill, A. P., Mallinson-Howard, S. H., & Jowett, G. E. (2018). Multidimensional perfectionism in sport: A meta-analytical review. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 7, 235-270.
• Curran, T., & Hill, A. P. (2018). Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time: A Meta-Analysis of Birth Cohort Differences From 1989 to 2016. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 410–429.

Professional activities

I am currently an associate editor of the APA journal Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology and Canadian Psychology.

I was previously the associate editor of International Journal of Sport Psychology and senior section editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport, and have served on the Research Board of the British Psychological Society.

I regularly review grants applications, journal articles, and conference abstracts for a range of international organisations.