Elaine Cox

Dr Elaine Cox is a senior lecturer within the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University. She holds a PhD in Educational Research and supervises students on the Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring programme at Oxford Brookes. Elaine is an experienced researcher, author and editor. In addition to writing a number of books and articles, she is also the founding editor of the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.

Recent Publications

Fontannaz, S. & Cox, E. (2020). Team leadership development through coaching: 
A case study of skippers in a round-the-world sailing race, International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring, Vol 18, No. 2.

Jackson, P. & Cox, E. (2020). Doing Coaching Research, London: Sage.

Cox, E., Bachkirova, T. & Clutterbuck, D. (Eds) (2018) The Complete Handbook of Coaching, 3rd Edition, London: Sage.

Shoukry, H. & Cox, E. (2018) Coaching as a Social Process, Management Learning, https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618762600

Cox, E. (2017). Working with emotion in coaching, in T. Bachkirova, D. Drake & G. Spence (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Coaching, London: Sage.

Thompson, S. & Cox, E. (2017).  How project managers understand and use coaching. Project Management Journal, 48(5), 64-77.

Washington, R. & Cox, E. (2016). How an evolution view of workplace mentoring relationships helps avoid negative experiences: the developmental mentoring model in action, Mentoring & Tutoring, 24(3). 

Cox, E.  (2015).  Coaching and Adult Learning: Theory and Practice, in J. Pappas & J. Jerman (Eds). Transforming adults through coaching, ACE 148. Jossey Bass. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119215080.html

McLaughlin, M. & Cox, E. (2015). Leadership Coaching: Developing Braver Leaders, New York, Routledge.

Ives, Y. & Cox, E. (2014). Relationship coaching, Hove: Routledge.

Cox, E., Bachkirova, T.  & Clutterbuck, D. (2014). Theoretical Traditions and Coaching Genres: Mapping the Territory, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 16(2)

Cox, E.  & Jackson, P. (2014). Developmental coaching, in E. Cox, T. Bachkirova and D. Clutterbuck (Eds) The Complete Handbook of Coaching (2 Ed.), pp. 215-227. London: Sage.

Fillery Travis, A. & Cox, E. (2014).  Researching coaching, in E. Cox, T. Bachkirova and D. Clutterbuck (Eds) The Complete Handbook of Coaching (2 Ed.), pp. 443-459, London: Sage.

Cox, E., Bachkirova, T. & Clutterbuck, D. (Eds) (2014) The Complete Handbook of Coaching, 2nd Edition, London: Sage.

Cox, E. (2013). Coaching Understood: A pragmatic inquiry into the coaching process, London: Sage. ISBN 978-0857028259.