Diabetes UK: Understanding physical activity

Diabetes UK wishes to understand the barriers to and opportunities for physical activity from the point of view of people living with diabetes and healthcare professionals supporting them. The study is part of a larger partnership project between Diabetes UK and Sport England and forms part of The Richmond Group of Charities ‘Movement for All’ programme. The end-project recommendations will help inform future policy and funding to support physical activity for people with diabetes.

Call for Participants

• Are you living with diabetes? Do you try and keep active? Or do you find it a challenge to be active? Would you be interested in helping with a research project?

  We are conducting 20-30 minute telephone interviews throughout May to explore these issues. If you would like to take part please register your interest using this form.

• Do you work with or support people who are living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes? Are you interested about physical activity in this patient group? Would you be interested in helping with a research project?

  We are conducting 20-30 minute telephone interviews throughout May to explore these issues. If you would like to take part please register your interest using this form.
  
  

Meet the Principal Investigator(s) for the project

Professor Louise Mansfield - 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.

Related Research Group(s)

Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse - Inequalities in health and wellbeing in the UK and internationally; welfare, health and wellbeing; ageing studies; health economics.

Project last modified 21/11/2023