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
De Vos, E., Mansfield, L. and Stephenson, N. (2024) 'Elicitation using Kit Bag Methods: Exploring Embodied Practice with Female Boxers'. Qualitative Research, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 1468-7941
Mansfield, L., Daykin, N., OConnell, NE., Bailey, D., Forde, L., Smith, R., (2024) ''. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 20 (1). pp. 1 - 35. ISSN: 1891-1803
et al.Wittels, P., Kay, T. and Mansfield, L. (2023) ''. Perspectives in Public Health, 0 (online first). pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 1757-9139
Hall, J. and Mansfield, L. (2023) ''. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 1558-6898
Smith, R., Mansfield, L. and Wainwright, E. (2023) ''. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (7). pp. 1135 - 1153. ISSN: 1012-6902