Active living, sport and society research group
Our aim is to Advocate, Educate and Evaluate (research) areas of health promotion and disease prevention and management, by helping people, through a more active lifestyle, to have healthier breathing, circulation, metabolism and improved cancer recovery and care.
This is a multidisciplinary research group including colleagues working in areas such as sport and business, medicine, Musculoskeletal health, mental health, public health, geography and humanities.
Our vehicle of action, Active Living (reduced inactivity), is one of the nine key tenets of the World Health Organisation’s mission to prevent and better manage non-communicable diseases.
At the heart of our work is respecting that it is beholden to changing or improving people’s health behaviours through helping them adapt to the psycho-social and physical environments in which they live.
Being active socially, psychologically and physically is a highly cost-effective antidote to the many ills (socio-economic, psychological and physical) that can result from a modern industrialised, rapidly advancing technological and ageing society.
Our research at all levels aims to augment the value of existing evidence and to promote new evidence that will enhance people’s well-being through a more active lifestyle.
The research team
Dr Hady Atef
Lecturer of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiotherapy
- Mackay building
- h.a.balabel@keele.ac.uk
Professor John Buckley
Professor of Exercise Rehabilitation
- The MacKay Building
- j.p.buckley@keele.ac.uk
Emily Hardy
Teaching Fellow, Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
- MAC 1.24
- 01782 734553
- e.hardy@keele.ac.uk
Sam Jones
Lecturer, Programme Director Rehabilitation and Exercise Science
- MAC 1.05
- 01782 734565
- s.jones3@keele.ac.uk
Kim Lund
Lecturer
- MacKay Building
- k.lund@keele.ac.uk
Dr Rasha Okasheh
Lecturer in Physiotherapy
- MacKay 1.22
- 07453495272
- r.o.a.okasheh@keele.ac.uk
Research areas
- The adaptation and application of physical activity monitoring devices for clinic, community and home-based settings
- Pre-rehabilitation and longer-term recovery of people with cancer
- Sedentary behaviour in the workplace
- Community and primary care professionals’ education in physical activity promotion
- Education and advocacy of cardiac rehabilitation globally
- Exercise cardiology of older sports and exercise participants
- Active transport through walking and motorised cycling
- Paediatric health and well-being linked with cystic fibrosis, neuromuscular diseases and metabolic disorders that influence/interact with cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunction and quality of life.