Edson Filho
Scholarly Accomplishments April 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Awards Anthony Abraham Jack For Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the PriceProse Book Award for Education Theory and Practice2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Finalist for Education by Foreword Reviews Books Mary Churchill Churchill, M. L. […]
Max Performance
The 2026 Winter Olympics are more than a year away, but thousands of Olympic hopefuls are now making the decisions that will determine gold, silver, and bronze. As speed skaters build endurance, ice hockey goalies sharpen reflexes, and alpine skiers visualize the descent of Italy’s infamous Stelvio slope, they’re also trying to avoid the pitfalls […]
The High Stakes of Performance
When individuals, teams, and systems are operating at their best, they can seem to perform and deliver effortlessly. But when they fail to thrive, we can quickly see the negative impact on issues such as quality of work, individual and team morale, and productivity. The 2024 BU Wheelock Forum explored issues related individual human development, […]
2024 BU Wheelock Forum Photo Gallery
The 2024 BU Wheelock Forum: Thriving Individuals, Teams, and Systems, explored issues related individual human development, high-performing teams, and equitable and thriving systems. Participants discussed how to support performance in individuals, teams, and systems so they can operate at their best. For more about the Forum, check out our blog post, “The High Stakes of […]
How Do Elite Athletes and Performers Keep Their Cool?
From the outside, elite athletes and other top performers appear to achieve their goals effortlessly and with confidence. But underneath their unflappable exteriors, they may actually be faced with many of the same challenges as the rest of us, such as perfectionism, burnout, or exhaustion. To reach the pinnacle of their careers, these high achievers […]
Sport Psychology Team Says “Grazie, Italia!”
BU Wheelock was well represented at the 16th Annual European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, an international conference for sport and exercise psychology research. Organized by the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC, using the organization’s French initials), the conference took place in Padua, Italy—Padova in Italian—from July 11 to 16. Edson Filho, an […]
Book by Edson Filho Added to Olympic World Library
A book coauthored by BU Wheelock associate professor Edson Filho was recently added to the Olympic World Library collection. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Research Directions to Advance the Field presents more than 100 critical research questions in sport psychology and provides a list of must-read papers for researchers of all levels. Created by the […]
The Science of Excellence
More than 15 million people play baseball in America, from tiny T-ballers to rusty weekend warriors. Plenty harbor dreams of hitting a World Series home run, but with only around 1,000 spots on big league rosters, they have a better chance of winning an Academy Award—a one in 11,500 shot, according to Forbes—than swinging a bat […]
Getting Into the Zone
Edson Filho is an associate professor of sport psychology and counseling at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research centers on human excellence and performance optimization at both the individual and group levels of analyses. Filho has worked as a consultant for elite international, college and amateur athletes. He is a […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes Six New Faculty
This fall, BU Wheelock welcomed six new full-time faculty members. Their research interests include teacher quality, the learning needs of students with disabilities, excellence in individuals and teams, labor markets and education policy, and language transition. They are committed to improving systems and unlocking opportunities that will make the world a better place and helping […]