As a Professor of Applied Sport Psychology, Professor Lafferty’s research focuses on three broad areas: team performance including team formation and initiation activity. Applied sport psychology and young performers including safeguarding and the training and development of practitioner psychologists. She is the lead researcher and developer of the CHANGES-Intervention programme (Challenging Hazing and Negative Group Events in Sport) and has recently signed collaborative partnership agreements with both British Universities and Colleges Sport and Scottish Student Sport to further the integration of CHANGES into student sport. In collaboration with Professor Caroline Wakefield from Liverpool Hope University she is examining student sport initiations from both a social and health psychology perspective and with colleagues from across the UK she is exploring trainee sport psychologists’ journey, supervision, and neophyte practitioner development. She has published and presented widely in these areas as well as acting as an expert advisor based on her research and has a successful track record of PhD completion and grant capture.