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An Evaluation of a Commercialized mHealth Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the Workplace (2022)
Journal Article
Di Sebastiano, K. M., Lau, E. Y., Yun, L., & Faulkner, G. (2022). An Evaluation of a Commercialized mHealth Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the Workplace. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, Article 740350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.740350

Background: UPnGO with ParticipACTION (UPnGO) was a commercialized 12-month workplace physical activity intervention, aimed at encouraging employees to sit less and move more at work. Its design took advantage of the ubiquitous nature of mobile fitne... Read More about An Evaluation of a Commercialized mHealth Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the Workplace.

Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health (2022)
Journal Article
McGuire, L., Morris, S., & Pollard, T. (2022). Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health. Health & Place, 75, Article 102773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102773

Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the N... Read More about Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health.

Fast reconstruction of centre of mass and foot kinematics during a single-legged horizontal jump: A point-cloud processing approach (2022)
Journal Article
McLaren, S., Evans, W., Galna, B., Portas, M., Weston, M., & Spears, I. (2022). Fast reconstruction of centre of mass and foot kinematics during a single-legged horizontal jump: A point-cloud processing approach. Journal of Biomechanics, 135, Article 111015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111015

Horizontal jumps are discrete, fast, over-ground movements requiring coordination of the centre of mass (CoM) and base of support and are routinely assessed in sports settings. There is currently no biomechanics-based system to aid in their quick and... Read More about Fast reconstruction of centre of mass and foot kinematics during a single-legged horizontal jump: A point-cloud processing approach.

Parental Views on the Acceptability and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Movement Behaviour of Pre-School Children: A Qualitative Study (2022)
Journal Article
Phillips, S. M., Summerbell, C., Hesketh, K. R., Saxena, S., & Hillier-Brown, F. C. (2022). Parental Views on the Acceptability and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Movement Behaviour of Pre-School Children: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), Article 3733. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063733

Movement behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) are important for the health and development of pre-school children (aged 3–4 years). There is limited qualitative research examining the acceptability and feasibility of tools u... Read More about Parental Views on the Acceptability and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Movement Behaviour of Pre-School Children: A Qualitative Study.

‘It All Kind of Links Really’: Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health (2022)
Journal Article
Fairbrother, H., Woodrow, N., Crowder, M., Holding, E., Griffin, N., Er, V., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Egan, M., Lock, K., Scott, S., Summerbell, C., McKeown, R., Rigby, E., Kyle, P., & Goyder, E. (2022). ‘It All Kind of Links Really’: Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), Article 3679. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063679

Meaningful inclusion of young people’s perceptions and experiences of inequalities is argued to be critical in the development of pro-equity policies. Our study explored young people’s perceptions of what influences their opportunities to be healthy... Read More about ‘It All Kind of Links Really’: Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health.

Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Alter Exercise Efficiency at High Altitude – Further Results From the Xtreme Alps Study (2022)
Journal Article
Hennis, P. J., Cumpstey, A. F., O’Doherty, A. F., Fernandez, B. O., Gilbert-Kawai, E. T., Mitchell, K., Moyses, H., Cobb, A., Meale, P., Pöhnl, H., Mythen, M. G., Grocott, M. P., Levett, D. Z., Martin, D. S., & Feelisch, M. (2022). Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Alter Exercise Efficiency at High Altitude – Further Results From the Xtreme Alps Study. Frontiers in Physiology, 13, Article 827235. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.827235

Introduction: Nitrate supplementation in the form of beetroot juice (BRJ) ingestion has been shown to improve exercise tolerance during acute hypoxia, but its effect on exercise physiology remains unstudied during sustained terrestrial high altitude... Read More about Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Alter Exercise Efficiency at High Altitude – Further Results From the Xtreme Alps Study.

Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Morris, S. L., Gibson, K., Wildman, J. M., Griffith, B., Moffatt, S., & Pollard, T. M. (2022). Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), Article 258. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07616-z

Background COVID-19 public health restrictions, such as social distancing and self-isolation, have been particularly challenging for vulnerable people with health conditions and/or complex social needs. Link worker social prescribing is widespread in... Read More about Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences.

The role of sex hormones on bone mineral density, marrow adiposity, and muscle adiposity in middle-aged and older men (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, L., Zhao, Q., Li, K., Zhang, Y., Wang, C., Hind, K., Wang, L., Liu, Y., & Cheng, X. (2022). The role of sex hormones on bone mineral density, marrow adiposity, and muscle adiposity in middle-aged and older men. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13, Article 817418. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.817418

Purpose: The etiology of age-related bone loss is less clear in men. This study is aimed to observe the variations of endogenous sex hormone concentrations with increasing of age in men, and investigate their relations to bone mass, marrow adiposity,... Read More about The role of sex hormones on bone mineral density, marrow adiposity, and muscle adiposity in middle-aged and older men.

The incidence, cost, and burden of concussion in women’s rugby league and rugby union: A systematic review and pooled analysis (2022)
Journal Article
King, D., Hume, P., Hind, K., Clark, N., & Hardaker, N. (2022). The incidence, cost, and burden of concussion in women’s rugby league and rugby union: A systematic review and pooled analysis. Sports Medicine, 52, 1751–1764. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-022-01645-8

Background: The extent of concussion injury in the rugby codes for women is unclear. Objective: Our aim was to review all published studies reporting concussion injuries from match and training participation in rugby codes and report the pooled data... Read More about The incidence, cost, and burden of concussion in women’s rugby league and rugby union: A systematic review and pooled analysis.

An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA (2022)
Journal Article
Clarkson, B. G., Parry, K. D., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2022). An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 12(4), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-01-2021-0004

Purpose: Women’s football faces an existential threat from covid-19. Using case studies, we explore the covid-19 responses of three highly-ranked national football associations (Australia, England, and the USA) and their professional women’s football... Read More about An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA.

Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport (2022)
Journal Article
Pope, S., Williams, J., & Cleland, J. (2022). Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport. Sociology, 56(4), 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211063359

This article offers an original contribution as the first to focus empirically on men football fans’ attitudes towards women’s sport in a ‘new age’ of UK media coverage, in which women’s sport has experienced a significantly increased and more positi... Read More about Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport.

Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Monforte, J., Smith, M., & Smith, B. (2022). Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2805-e2817. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13724

Recently, social workers have been identified as a key messenger group for promoting physical activity (PA) to disabled people. Also identified is the need to train social workers in PA promotion. In response, the purpose of this article is to inform... Read More about Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK.

The reliability, validity and sensitivity of an individualised sub-maximal fitness test in elite rugby league athletes (2022)
Journal Article
Scott, T. J., McLaren, S. J., Lovell, R., Scott, M. T., & Barrett, S. (2022). The reliability, validity and sensitivity of an individualised sub-maximal fitness test in elite rugby league athletes. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40(8), 840-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.2021047

We aimed to examine the reliability, validity and sensitivity of an individualised sub-maximal fitness test (SMFTIFT60). Nineteen elite rugby league players performed a one-week test-retest of SMFTIFT60. Typical Errors and ICCs were: small (<3.5%) an... Read More about The reliability, validity and sensitivity of an individualised sub-maximal fitness test in elite rugby league athletes.

Neighbourhood planning, rural ageing and public health policy in England: a case of policy myopia? (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, C., Parker, G., Buckner, S., Mattocks, C., Barnes, A., Oliver, E. J., Cowan, A., & Lafortune, L. (2022). Neighbourhood planning, rural ageing and public health policy in England: a case of policy myopia?. Town Planning Review, 93(3), 275-300. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.39

This article draws together new research findings with recent evidence, theory and policy developments relating to place-based planning for health and well-being. It considers how neighbourhood planning (NP) can support the advancement of the ageing-... Read More about Neighbourhood planning, rural ageing and public health policy in England: a case of policy myopia?.

‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, J., Pope, S., & Cleland, J. (2023). ‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England. Sport in Society, 26(2), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.2021509

Women’s sport, and perhaps especially women’s football, in England has enjoyed much greater media visibility and support over the past decade. But we still know relatively little about the response of fans of men’s football to the rise of the women’s... Read More about ‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England.

Teachers’ and Parents’ Perspectives on the Feasibility of a Preschool-Based Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Obesity: An Embedded Qualitative Study within ToyBox Study Malaysia (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, J., Cheah, W., Anchang, G., Noor Hafizah, Y., Abim, M., Ruzita, A., Koh, D., Reeves, S., Summerbell, C., Essau, C., Poh, B., & Gibson, E. (2023). Teachers’ and Parents’ Perspectives on the Feasibility of a Preschool-Based Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Obesity: An Embedded Qualitative Study within ToyBox Study Malaysia. Early Childhood Education Journal, 51(1), 149-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-021-01290-2

The aim of this qualitative study, an embedded component of ToyBox Study Malaysia (TSM), was to elicit the perspectives of teachers and parents regarding the implementation of TSM. TSM is a preschool-based behavioral intervention program aimed at imp... Read More about Teachers’ and Parents’ Perspectives on the Feasibility of a Preschool-Based Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Obesity: An Embedded Qualitative Study within ToyBox Study Malaysia.

What we Know and Where we are Going: The Trajectory of Cultural Sport Psychology (2022)
Book Chapter
de Cruz, N., & Smith, B. (2022). What we Know and Where we are Going: The Trajectory of Cultural Sport Psychology. In N. de Cruz (Ed.), Cultural Sport Psychology and Elite Sport in Singapore: An Exploration of Identity and Practice (1-17). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277637-1

This book cuts across a range of conceptual and theoretical landscapes, traversing the fields of performance and sport psychology, culture, and its influence on Singapore’s elite sport ecosystem, and the consequent impact on the application and pract... Read More about What we Know and Where we are Going: The Trajectory of Cultural Sport Psychology.

Ethnography and Its Potential to Understand and Transform the Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury (2022)
Book Chapter
Monforte, J., Pérez-Samaniego, V., & Smith, B. (2022). Ethnography and Its Potential to Understand and Transform the Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury. In Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives (117-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8317-6_9

This chapter accounts the contributions of ethnographic work for thinking affirmatively about the rehabilitation of spinal cord injury (SCI). The first part of the chapter will provide a concise overview of ethnographic research on SCI in the context... Read More about Ethnography and Its Potential to Understand and Transform the Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury.