Rate My Professor Casey Mainsbridge

Mainsbridge's research specializations encompass health, health and behavior change, physical activity, habits, HPE pedagogy, and student engagement. His projects include Active Travel: A climate change mitigation strategy to benefit the health of all Tasmanians (2020), Managing training load in talented high school age athletes (2018-2021), Measuring the impact of Work-Integrated Learning in the Bachelor of Health and Physical Education program (2017), and Promoting health literacy in Tasmanian Primary Schools through the HealthLit4Kids pilot study (2017). He has received awards such as Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Group Teaching Award, University of Tasmania, 2020), Research Merit Certificate for Outstanding Contribution to Research (University of Tasmania, 2016), Certificate of Excellence in Educational Leadership (Australian Council for Educational Leaders, 2016), Staff Award for Exceptional Service to a Society (Tasmanian University Union Societies Council, 2016), and Teaching Merit Certificates (University of Tasmania, 2009, 2010, 2020). Key publications include 'An e-health intervention designed to increase workday energy expenditure by reducing prolonged occupational sitting habits' (Pedersen, Cooley, Mainsbridge, 2014), 'Using interactive online pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement' (Muir et al., 2022), 'Primary school Physical Education (PE) specialist teachers' experiences of teaching Health Education and Physical Education' (Cruickshank et al., 2023), and 'Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities' (Hookway et al., 2023).