Rate My Professor Casey Mainsbridge

Dr Casey Mainsbridge serves as Senior Lecturer in Personal Development, Health and Physical Education in the School of Education at the University of New England, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education. He earned a Bachelor of Human Movement from the University of Tasmania in 1999, a Bachelor of Education (In-Service Honours) focused on pre-service teachers’ and supervisors’ perceptions of the quality of supervision in teacher education, and a PhD titled 'The effect of a workplace intervention designed to interrupt prolonged occupational sitting on the health of desk-based employees.' Holding qualifications as a Level III Fitness Australian Exercise Professional, Certificates III and IV in Fitness, Triathlon Australia Development Coach and Coach Educator, Senior First Aid, and Level One Australian Strength and Conditioning Coach, Mainsbridge has a diverse career background. He worked as a primary school Health and Physical Education teacher, a registered fitness professional for twenty-four years in roles such as gym manager, personal trainer, fitness instructor, and industry health presenter, and as a health professional with Adult Education for the over-50s population. Since entering higher education in 2003, he has taught and coordinated units including Health and Physical Activity, Contemporary Health Issues, HPE Pedagogy, Sports Coaching, Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Health and Behaviour Change, and Organisation in Community Sport and Recreation.

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).