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  1. “Each Athlete Is Very Different, and This Is Why I’m Still Learning Every Day”: Experiences of Coaching Elite Athletes With Intellectual Disability and/or Autism

    Article • International Sport Coaching Journal, January 2026, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  2. Coaching Individuals With Intellectual Disability and/or Autism: Perspectives of Coaches and Physical Education Teachers in Belgium

    Article • Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, January 2025, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  3. Performance and Pacing Profiles of Competitive Track Events for Elite Athletes With Intellectual Impairment With and Without Additional Significant Impairments

    Article • Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, January 2025, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  4. Sports Classification and Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities: Measuring Health Status Using a Questionnaire Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

    Article • Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, January 2024, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  5. Structure and Organization of Sport for People With Intellectual Disabilities Across Europe

    Article • Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, January 2024, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  6. Engaging and sustaining people with intellectual disabilities in physical activity: a narrative review of existing evidence

    Article • International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  7. The impact of intellectual disability and sport expertise on cognitive and executive functions

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  8. The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity

    Article • International Review for the Sociology of Sport, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  9. Anti-doping and intellectually impaired athletes: a call for research

    Article • Performance Enhancement & Health, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  10. “It’s all about knowing the young person”: Best practice in coaching autistic athletes

    Article • Sports Coaching Review, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  11. Developing additional competition classes for athletes with intellectual impairments: Conceptual approach and efficacy of an ICF derived measure

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  12. Conceptual model of sport-specific classification for para-athletes with intellectual impairment

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  13. The impact of cognitive functions and intellectual impairment on pacing and performance in sports

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  14. Young People, Sexuality and the Age of Pornography

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Burns

  15. The implications of sexual and reproductive health for women with intellectual impairments

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  16. The impact of exposure to media coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on mixed physical ability interactions

    Article • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  17. Classification and Intellectual Disabilities: An Investigation of the Factors That Predict the Performance of Athletes With Intellectual Disability

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, August 2018, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  18. Intellectual Disability, Special Olympics and Parasport

    Article • January 2018, Nature

    Professor Jan Burns

  19. Using personal construct methodology to explore relationships with adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  20. Disorders of sex development: Mothers’ experiences of support

    Article • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  21. An Investigation of Athletes’ and Coaches’ Perceptions of Mental Ill-Health in Elite Athletes

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, June 2017, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  22. Behind the Mask

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  23. Looking behind the mask: Social coping strategies of girls on the autistic spectrum

    Article • Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  24. Psychosocial impact of involvement in the Special Olympics

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  25. The Development and Properties of the Support Needs Questionnaire

    Article • Social Inclusion, July 2015, Cogitatio

    Professor Jan Burns

  26. The impact of intellectual disabilities on elite sports performance

    Article • International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  27. Clinical Psychology

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Jan Burns

  28. Public Attitudes Toward People with Intellectual Disabilities after Viewing Olympic or Paralympic Performance

    Article • Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, January 2015, Human Kinetics

    Professor Jan Burns

  29. A response: A political-representational crisis

    Article • Clinical Psychology Forum, April 2014, British Psychological Society

    Professor Jan Burns

  30. Trans men and friendships: A Foucauldian discourse analysis

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, March 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  31. The impact of cognitive assessment on the identity of people with learning disabilities

    Article • British Journal of Learning Disabilities, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  32. Professor Mark Rapley

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  33. Lesbian co-mothers' experiences of maternity healthcare services

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr Fiona Tasker, Professor Jan Burns

  34. A Disquisition on Pluralism in Qualitative Methods: The Troublesome Case of a Critical Narrative Analysis

    Article • Qualitative Research in Psychology, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  35. Same-Sex Relationships and Women with Intellectual Disabilities

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  36. What is narrative therapy and what is it not? The usefulness of Q methodology to explore accounts of White and Epston's (1990) approach to narrative therapy

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  37. STAFF BURNOUT AND ABSENTEEISM THROUGH SERVICE TRANSITION: FROM HOSPITAL TO HOSTEL

    Article • Mental Handicap Research, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  38. Creative Approaches to Training Budding Clinical Psychologists: a commentary

    Article • Psychology Learning & Teaching, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  39. Q Methodology and a Delphi Poll: A Useful Approach to Researching a Narrative Approach to Therapy

    Article • Qualitative Research in Psychology, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  40. Social support and intellectual disabilities: a comparison between social networks of adults with intellectual disability and those with physical disability

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  41. Correspondence

    Article • Clinical Psychology Forum, January 2009, British Psychological Society

    Professor Jan Burns

  42. Mothers with Learning Disabilities: Experiences and Meanings of Losing Custody of their Children

    Article • Tizard Learning Disability Review, July 2007, Emerald

    Professor Jan Burns

  43. The dilemmas of residential care staff working with the challenging behaviour of people with learning disabilities

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2005, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  44. Understanding our Bodies, Understanding Ourselves: The Menstrual Cycle, Mental Health and Women with Learning Disabilities

    Article • Tizard Learning Disability Review, October 2004, Emerald

    Professor Jan Burns

  45. Children with HIV in the UK: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptive and Cognitive Functioning

    Article • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, January 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jan Burns

  46. Investigating the psychosocial impact of anti-HIV combination therapies

    Article • AIDS Care, December 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  47. Cognitive distortions and blame attribution in sex offenders against adults and children

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, February 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Burns

  48. Personal, professional and practice development: clinical supervision

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, November 1998, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Jan Burns

  49. Book Review. Qualitative Methods in Psychology: A research guide

    Article • Changes, August 1996, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  50. Goal Attainment Scaling as a Method of Monitoring the Progress of People with Severe Learning Disabilities

    Article • British Journal of Learning Disabilities, December 1994, Wiley

    Professor Jan Burns

  51. The Psychology of Lesbian Health Care

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Burns

  52. The translation of knowledge between client and therapist concerning lesbian sexuality: All you wanted to know about lesbian sex and were scared to ask

    Article • Counselling Psychology Quarterly, October 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Burns

  53. Clinical Psychology

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Burns