Alexandru Radu

Teaching & Research

Alex contributes to the following University-wide committees:

• Member of the International Advisory Group (jointly responsible for facilitating international exchanges for both staff and students and helping with international recruitment)
• Member of the Recruitment Action Group
• Link Tutor for the partnership between University of Worcester and Lithuanian Sports University (from Kaunas, Lithuania).

Teaching Interests:      

• Sports Coaching
• Sport Management

Alex currently teaches the following modules:            

• Foundations of Sports Development and the Sport Experience (Yr. 1 students)
• Principles of Sports Coaching (Yr. 1 students)
• Multi Sports (Yr. 2 students)
• Sport Event Operations (Yr. 2 students)
• Sport Event Marketing (Yr. 3 students)
• International Development and Volunteering (Yr. 3 students)

Research Interests:  

• Sports Event Management
• Olympism and the Olympic movement
• Sport and mass media

Recent Projects  

• Erasmus scholarships in 2012, 2013 and 2014 – teaching Sports Management and coaching basketball at Lithuanian Sports University from Kaunas (Lithuania)
• Coaching basketball at various basketball camps in three different countries (Lithuania, Romania and England)

Professional Bodies

• England Basketball
• Romanian National School of Coaches (Moldova Region - Basketball)
• Basketball Wales

Publications

Radu, A. (2018) The Science of Basketball, Routledge: London, UK.

Radu, A. (2015) Basketball Coaching. Putting Theory into Practice. Bloomsbury: London, UK.

Radu, A. and Abalasei, B. (2012) English-Romanian Dictionary (Sport section). Bucharest Litera Printing Press.

Radu, A. (2010) Basketball. A Guide to Skills, Techniques and Tactics, Crowood Press, Marlborough, UK.

Radu, A. and Stirbu, C. (2001) Streetball Simple, Efficient and Funny, Venus Publishing House, Iasi.

Papers, conference and other presentations:

Stanway, B., Peters, D., Radu, A., Beeching, K. and Belsey, J. (2014) Winning Big United States of America in the 2012 London Olympics. Presented at the World Congress of Performance Analysis in Sport X, Croatia. 25-28th July.

Teaching Year 3 Sport Management students from Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education (LAPE) lecture entitled Structure. Strategy/Creating a direction for the sport organisation as part of an ERASMUS Teaching exchange. April 2012.

Radu, A. (2009) An Evaluation of Olympism Activities of the Romanian Olympic Academy. Published in the volume titled XIII Olympic Congress Copenhagen 2009 Contributions, International Olympic Committee Lausanne, Switzerland.

Masterman, G., Radu, A. and Graney, N. (2009) Is There Sponsorship Fit? An Investigation of 2008 Shanghai Tennis Masters. Paper presented at ATINER 9th International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing and Social Aspects, 8th - 11th May 2009, Athens, Greece.

Teaching at the Role of Sport in European Union Summer School (for Master students) at Jyvaskyla University in Jyvaskyla (Finland) as part of an ERASMUS Teaching Exchange. 26th-31st May 2009.

Radu, A. and Radu, L. (2008) An Evaluation of Olympism Activities of Romanian Olympic Academy Iasi Branch. Poster presented at EASM (European Association of Sport Management) Conference in Heidelberg (Germany), 10-14th September 2008.

Partington, S., Allin, L. and Radu, A. (2008) Assessment Bottle Necks A Reality or a State of Mind? Probing the Perception Gap Between Students and Staff. Paper presented at Northumbria University Conference 2008, Newcastle. APT Award winning project.

Radu, A. and Radu, L. (2008) Info Guide Olympic Sports Contact Details. Booklet published at Demiurg Publishing House, Iasi, Romania.

Blakey, P.A., Bruce, C., Cook, P., Futre, D., Macfadyen, G., Porteous, J. and Radu, A. (2008) The Management of Sport SMEs: Whats the position? ATINER Conference, Athens, 11-14th August 2008.

Emery, P. and Radu, A. (2007) Conceptual Paper: An exploration of time and its management for sport event managers. Managing Leisure (Special Issue: Events and Festivals Current Trends and Issues), 12 (2/3), 204-222.

Radu, A. and Fishwick, L. (2007) Enquiring Minds: Integrating Study Skills into Directed Learning Tasks. Paper presented at Northumbria University Conference, Marriott Hotel, Newcastle. APT Award winning project.

Radu, A. and Emery, P. (2005) It's Now Time to Manage Time. Paper presented (and published in the Book of Abstracts) at the 13th Congress of the European Association for Sport Management, Gateshead, UK.

Radu, A. (2004) Enthusiasm for Belgium Children 2004 How to Increase Sport Participation Amongst Youngsters in Belgium. Runner-up presentation in the International Students Presentation Competition during the 12th European Student Seminar for Sport Management (Students Awards), EASM Conference Brussels, Belgium.

External Responsibilities

Current:

Assistant Coach of Romania U20 and U18 Women's National Team (June 2018 to present).

England Basketball Tutor (delivering Level 1 and Level 2 Coach Award).

Past:

Assistant Coach of Worcester Wolves professional basketball team that competes in British Basketball League (September 2010 to 2018).

Head Coach of University of Worcester Men's 2nd team (BUCS) / Assistant Coach of University of Worcester Men's 1st Team (September 2010 to 2018).

Wales Futures (U20 and U18) Men's National Team Head Coach (September 2016 to 2018).

Assistant Coach Romania Senior Women National Team (March 2014 to August 2015).

Assistant Coach Wales Senior Men's National Team (2015-2016 season).

Head Coach of Worcester Wolves Ladies' and Director of Women's Basketball programme at University of Worcester (between 2010-2011 and 2014-2015 seasons).

Translator at International Basketball Coaching Clinic Klaipeda (Lithuania) in July 2011 (clinic organised by the Lithuanian Coaches Association).

Head Coach of Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi/Romania (between 1998-2001).