Professor Kelly Mackintosh

Professor Kelly Mackintosh

Professor, Sport and Exercise Sciences

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 295075
Academic Office - A110
First Floor
Engineering East
Bay Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Dr Mackintosh is primarily interested in children’s physical activity and health, and in particular, school-based interventions. Within this area her work focuses on physical activity measurement and the role of behaviour change in developing physically active young people.

Previous intervention work has involved the Children’s Health, Activity, and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!) Project, which was a formative intervention based in Wigan to improve primary school children’s well-being through enhanced physical activity and eating behaviours. Other recent work includes an after-school club intervention combining active video games and multi-skills among low active and low fit high school children, as well as the development of a high-intensity military-ethos intervention. Working in close partnership with computer scientists and engineers has allowed the development of ubiquitous social goal sharing technology to enhance physical activity levels, in projects such as ‘Mission Possible’. Much work has now focussed on clinical populations, including strong links with the physiotherapists and consultants within Cystic Fibrosis clinics, and Asthma UK.

Kelly has recently been awarded an Early Career Research Star she will be speaking at the HEPA Europe in Belfast, Northern Ireland in September 2016. 

Current Research Projects

PREVIEW European project: International diet and physical activity intervention for pre-diabetics
Commando Joes : Military style physical activity intervention across 150 schools in the UK
Commando Joe’s X4A Trial: High-intensity Interval Training Intervention in Secondary Schools
Mission Possible: Using ubiquitous social goal sharing technology
Cystic Fibrosis: Evaluating physical activity levels and heart rate variability in children with Cystic Fibrosis.
Inspiratory Muscle Training: Investigating the effects of IMT on children with Cystic Fibrosis and match controls
Food Dudes: Development of Dynamic Dudes intervention trial

Inaugural Lecture, 2023

Professor Kelly Mackintosh