Rate My Professor Khaya Morris-Binelli

Dr. Khaya Morris-Binelli serves as a Lecturer in Exercise & Sport Science in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus. He earned a Bachelor of Psychology with First Class Honours and a PhD in Motor Learning from Murdoch University. His PhD research, undertaken in collaboration with Hockey Australia, examined individual differences in expert visual anticipation among athletes. Morris-Binelli brings practical experience from working with elite and emerging-elite athletes at Hockey Australia, Rugby WA, Western Force, and South Fremantle Football Club, contributing to performance development at international and national levels. He joined the University of Notre Dame Australia as a Lecturer in February 2021.

Morris-Binelli’s research specializations include visual anticipation and decision-making in sport, sport expertise, motor learning, and sport psychology. He explores innovative methods to develop perceptual-cognitive-motor skills for sports and performance domains such as Defence. Key publications feature “Individual differences and transfer of visual anticipation in expert female field hockey goalkeepers” (Optometry and Vision Science, 2022), “Attributes of expert anticipation should inform the design of virtual reality simulators to accelerate learning and transfer of skill” (Sports Medicine, 2022), “Implementing skill acquisition research in high-performance sport: Reflecting on the importance of autonomy-support for successful collaboration” (Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 2021), “Individual differences in performance and learning of visual anticipation in expert field hockey goalkeepers” (Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2021), “Psycho-perceptual-motor skills are deemed critical to save the penalty corner in international field hockey” (Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2020), and “Use of pitcher game footage to measure visual anticipation and its relationship to baseball batting statistics” (Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2018). He has delivered conference papers on visual-perceptual training techniques for defence personnel and expertise in soldier performance. Morris-Binelli teaches Physical Activity and Health (HLTH1001), Motor Control, Development and Learning (HLTH2000), Psychosocial Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity (HLTH2100), and Multidimensional Coaching Practice (HLTH6008). He supervises PhD candidates on decision-making in virtual simulations and mental health literacy, and completed an Honours project on motor expertise in rugby players. Awards include an Australian Government Research Training Program PhD scholarship (2017–2020) and top 10% recognition for teaching satisfaction at Murdoch University (2019). He is a member of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.