Michelle Swainson

Dr

Former affiliation
  • Furness Building

    LA1 4YG Lancaster

20082025

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SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)

My main research interests are within the field of exercise physiology and preventive health, especially focused on the associations between fitness, fatness and cardio-metabolic risk. This interest spans healthy adults, retired athletes as well as cardiac patients engaging in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. I am interested in the role of health screening to identify risk at a younger age, and promote the use of physical activity/exercise for both prevention and management of lifestyle-related conditions, particularly in middle-aged adults and those in sedentary workplaces. I also have a strong interest in methodologies used to determine and monitor obesity, focusing on DXA-derived visceral adipose tissue and measures of central adiposity, which is an area I am keen to advance in relation to cardio-metabolic diseases.

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Education/Academic qualification

PhD: Physical activity, cardiorespiratory function and global cardiovascular disease risk in healthy young to middle-aged adults, Leeds Metropolitan University

1/04/20088/03/2013

Award Date: 8/03/2013

PG Certificate in Academic Practice, Leeds Beckett University

09/201511/2016

MSc Sport & Exercise Physiology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

09/200510/2006

BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science, Leeds Metropolitan University

09/200107/2004

External positions

External Examiner - MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology/Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, University of Hull

15/10/2021 → …

External Examiner - MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine, University of Leeds

20/09/2020 → …

External Examiner - BSc Physical Activity, Nutrition & Health, University of Derby

09/202008/2024

Keywords

  • Public health
  • Obesity
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physical Activity
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Diabetes
  • Fitness
  • Well-being at work
  • Sedentary time
  • Inactivity

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