Coaches are inherently interested in development, but many of us find research into coaching difficult to access, read and apply. Dr Peter Jackson finds a theme of reflection from recent academic papers

  As a practitioner and an academic, I’m fascinated by how those two domains feed each other, and how the connection between the two can be made stronger. For this issue’s column, I’ve looked back over the last year in two academic journals. Both journals attract good contributions; the contributions are also peer reviewed (each...