Dr Andrew Higham joined Heriot-Watt University as an Assistant Professor in Psychology in February 2025 and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA). He holds an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Sheffield Hallam University (2021), where he published his dissertation exploring how football coaches experience morality and navigate moral atmospheres within their professional environments. Following his MSc, Dr Higham was awarded a PhD scholarship at Sheffield Hallam University (2024). His doctoral research employed innovative longitudinal photo-elicitation methods to examine how professional football coaches understand and experience well-being over time, offering fresh insights into the lived realities of coaching in elite sport. His current research interests include exploring well-being and ill-being within sporting contexts and the application of creative research methods to study lived experiences.  

I teach across Psychology and Sport Science Undergraduate programmes, such as Fundamentals of Sport Psychology, Applied Sport Psychology, Academic Skills, Research Methods and Analysis 4, and Forensic Psychology. I also course lead The Psychology of Team Sport and The Psychology of Individual Sport for our MSc in Sport Psychology. Additionally, I supervise UG and PG student dissertation projects. 

Other roles I have been assigned are:

• Voluntary Research Assistant Coordinator
• Personal and Academic Tutor 
• Ethics Reviewer  

My research interests span: 

• Well-being and Ill-being
• Mental Health 
• Morality 
• Welfare and Safeguarding 
• Hegemonic Masculinity 
• Cultural Norms 
• Sporting Contexts 
• Phenomenology
• Creative Qualitative Research Approaches 
• Photo-Elicitation Methods
• Documentary Analysis 
• Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis