Professor Louise Mansfield
Vice Dean Research / Professor - Sport, Health and Social Sciences
Heinz Wolff 210
- Email: louise.mansfield@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267561
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 Managing Editor of Annals of Leisure Research. Louise is known for is known for developing evidence to inform policy and practice.
Qualifications
PhD, PGCE, BSc
Responsibility
Louise is Vice Dean for Research (CHMLS), Director of the Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Lifecourse (CHWL) and Associate Director of the ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Programme (a collaboration between Brunel, Oxford and the Open University).
Newest selected publications
Mansfield, L., Christoforou, A., Blair, R. and Rhind, D. (2024) 'Conceptualizing Family Wellbeing in Elite Swimming'. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 1012-6902
De Vos, E., Mansfield, L. and Stephenson, N. (2024) 'Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers'. Qualitative Research, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 1468-7941 Open Access Link
Pettican, A., Southall-Edwards, R., Reinhardt, GY., Gladwell, V., Freeman, P., Low, W., et al. (2024) 'Tackling physical inactivity and inequalities: implementing a whole systems approach to transform community provision for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions'. BMC Public Health, 24 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1471-2458 Open Access Link
Mansfield, L., Daykin, N., OConnell, NE., Bailey, D., Forde, L., Smith, R., et al. (2024) 'A mixed methods systematic review on the effects of arts interventions for children and young people at-risk of offending, or who have offended on behavioural, psychosocial, cognitive and offending outcomes: A systematic review'. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 20 (1). pp. 1 - 35. ISSN: 1891-1803 Open Access Link
Wittels, P., Kay, T. and Mansfield, L. (2023) 'Enabling mothers of young children in a low SES area to co-design the support they are seeking for the adoption of healthy behaviours'. Perspectives in Public Health, 0 (online first). pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 1757-9139 Open Access Link