Professor Louise Mansfield
Vice Dean Research / Professor - Sport, Health and Social Sciences

Research area(s)

Community sport, physical activity and public health and wellbeing. Sociology of sport and social inequalities. Participatory and coproduction strategies and methods in developing evidence to inform policy and practice in the culture and sports sectors.

Research Interests

Community approaches to sport, public health and wellbeing

Sociology of sport; gender and feminist theories, social inequalities, public health and wellbeing, coproduction and partnership

Qualitative research methods and process evaluations

Intervention and evaluation strategies in community sport research

Evidence reviews for research, policy and practice including focus on qualitative synthesis

Translation, dissemination and mobilisation of evidence strategies and practices for UK and international sport and culture sector audiences in policy and practice and both academic and non-academic organisations.

Grants

Project details

2024-2026 New Adventures – Coproduction of an Explanatory Framework for Community Dance and Wellbeing £50, 000 PI

2024-2025 Sport England Let’s Go Southall – Community Sport and Social Movements in Southall – Phase 3 (An Embedded Research Approach to Meaningful Measurement) £67, 000 PI

2024 Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. Cancer-related and sociocultural sensitive physical activity for South Asian women with breast cancer; a qualitative insight project £10, 000 Co-I

2023 What Works Centre for Wellbeing – Creativity and Wellbeing Evidence Review and Context-Mechanisms-Outcomes mapping £35, 000 PI

2022-2024 AHRC Networking Grant – Everyday Creativity, £30, 000 Lead for Creativity and Wellbeing Lead for Creativity and Wellbeing

2022-2023 Sport England Let’s Go Southall – Community Sport and Social Movements in Southall – Phase 2 (Explanatory Frameworks and Digital Story Telling) £77, 000 PI

2022 Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) Evaluation of Youth Programme and Theory of Change for Supporting Health and Wellbeing of Young People at Risk of Trafficking £4, 000. PI

2022-2023 Youth Endowment Foundation and Campbell Collaboration. Evidence Review and Theory of Change for Culture and Arts Interventions in Youth Justice £120,000 PI

2021-2022 Sport England/Let’s Go Southall; Community Sport & Social Movements in Southall £35, 000PI

2021-24 MPS Society (Mucopolysaccharide Diseases) Physical Activity nd Sedentary Behaviour in the Enhancement of Mental Health and Quality of Life in Fabry Disease, £84, 007. Co-I

2021 Alzheimer’s Society – Rapid Evidence Reviews Physical Activity and Dementia, £18, 000. Co-I

2019-2022 Sport England. Evaluation of Essex Local Delivery Pilot; communities, inequalities, physical activity. University of Essex Consortium. £736, 885. Co-I

2019 Diabetes. UK Understanding Physical Activity and Diabetes. Patient and Healthcare Practitioner Perspectives, £4, 500, PI

2018-2020 ESRC Culture, Sport, Communities and Wellbeing – conceptualising wellbeing and qualitative evidence synthesises, £195, 000. PI

2015-2017, Medical Research Council PHIND (£150, 000) The acceptability and feasibility of increasing standing and reducing sitting in office worksites. Co-I with Kings College London, and UCL

2015-2018, ESRC Research Grant (£1, 001, 076) Culture, Sport and Wellbeing Evidence Review: Social Diversity and Context Matters. ES/N003721/1. Co-I and P-I for collaborative development phase in collaboration with LSE, University of Brighton, University of Winchester

2015-2018, ESRC Seminar Series (£26, 350) Understanding the potential of informal and lifestyle sports ES/M002705/1 Partner Institution with Bournemouth University, and led by Brighton University. Co-I

2015-2016, Macmillan Cancer Support (£67, 418) A systematic review of the evidence for the impact of lifestyle behaviours on the lives of people living with or beyond cancer. P-I

2014, Public Health England (£10, 000) An Academic Scoping of Physical Activity Research in the UK, in collaboration with the BHFNC and NCSEM, Loughborough University, Co-I

2014, Public Health England (£5, 000), Rapid Response Scoping Review, LGBT Communities and Physical Activity. P-I

2013, CSDA (£69,700) The contribution of CSDA Sport for development programmes in the Caribbean to health, education, gender and disability. Project advisory board member

2013-2018, UK Sport (£90, 000) Evaluation of the Zambia GoSisters Sport Development Project. Co-I

2013, Sport England (£354, 000) Get Healthy Get into Sport: The Health and Sport Engagement (HASE) Project. PI

2013, sportscotland (£9, 723) Evidence review of the value of sport and physical activity in the tertiary education sector. PI

2012, Sport England (£10,000). Further Education Sport Pilot Project Evaluation. PI

2011-2013, UK Sport (£60, 000). Evaluation of the Zambia GoSisters Sport Development Project. Co-I

2011, Youth Sport Trust and Department of Health (£61, 000). Evaluation of Change4Life sports clubs (Year 2). PI.

2011, Youth Sport Trust and Lloyds TSB (£25, 000). Evaluation of National Schools Sports Week. Co-I.

2011, Higher Education Academy (£10, 000). Olympic / Paralympic Games HE Resource. Co-I

2010, Youth Sport Trust (£40, 000). Evaluation of Change4Life sports clubs. PI.

2010, Kent County Council, (£16,400). A worldwide systematic review of the evidence for economic, environmental and health & quality of life outcomes from the provision of cycle tourism and leisure cycling opportunities in East Kent. Co-I.

2010, Podium; the FE and HE unit for the 2012 Games (£4,500). Stakeholder survey: design, conduct and evaluation. PI

2009, Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust (£12,900). A focused scoping review of the evidence of achievable outcomes in local communities through initiatives making use of Olympic live sites. Co-I.

2009, Department of Health (£13, 563). Active celebration: using the 2012 Games to get the nation moving. PI.

2009, HEFCE Research Capability Funding. (£3000). Netball in the UK: global sport and gender relations. PI.

2008, Department of Health (£27,000). Systematic review of the evidence base for developing a physical activity and health legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Co-I.

2008, Economic and Social Research Council (£15,000). Leveraging social, cultural and health benefits from London 2012 in the regions. Co-I.

2008,Economic and Social Research Council (£2000). Imagining the Olympics: the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games activity day for young people, exhibition and public lecture. PI.