Professor Louise Mansfield
Theme Leader / Professor - Sport, Health and Social Sciences
Heinz Wolff 210
- Email: louise.mansfield@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267561
- Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences
- Department of Life Sciences
- College of Health and Life Sciences
- Institute of Environment, Health and Societies
- Welfare, Health and Wellbeing
Summary
Career History
Louise Mansfield is Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences and Research Lead for Welfare, Health and Wellbeing in the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies. Her research focuses on the relationship between sport, physical activity and public health and wellbeing. She is interested in partnership and community approaches in sport and physical activity and issues of health, wellbeing, inequality and diversity. She has led research projects for the Department of Health, Youth Sport Trust, sportscotland, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, Macmillan Cancer Support, Public Health England and Sport England. She sits on the editorial boards for Leisure Studies, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and is Manageing Editor of Annals of Leisure Research
Newest selected publications
Hall, J., Kay, T., McConnell, A. and Mansfield, L. (2019) 'Implementation of sit-stand desks as a workplace health initiative: stakeholder views'. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 12 (5). pp. 1 - 29. ISSN: 1753-8351 Open Access Link
Le Boutillier, C., Archer, S., Barry, C., King, A., Mansfield, L. and Urch, C. (2019) 'Conceptual framework for living with and beyond cancer: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.'. Psycho-oncology, 28 (5). pp. 948 - 959. ISSN: 1057-9249 Open Access Link
Mansfield, L., Kay, T., Anokye, N. and Fox-Rushby, J. (2019) 'Community sport and the politics of ageing: co-design and partnership approaches to understanding the embodied experiences of low-income older people.'. Frontiers in Sociology, 4. ISSN: 2297-7775 Open Access Link
Anokye, NK., Mansfield, L., Kay, T., Sanghera, S., Lewin, A. and Fox-Rushby, J. (2018) 'The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex community sport intervention to increase physical activity: An interrupted time series design'. BMJ Open, 8 (12). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2044-6055 Open Access Link
Testoni, S., Mansfield, L. and Dolan, P. (2018) 'Defining and Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Sport Policy'. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10 (4). pp. 815 - 827. ISSN: 1940-6959 Open Access Link