Rate My Professor Jessica Calverley

Throughout her academic career, Calverley has been recognized with key awards: the Otago Doctoral Scholarship in 2020, the University of Otago 2019 Research Group Award as a Master's student, and the Otago Summer Studentship in 2017. She has authored or co-authored several impactful publications. Notably, in 2023, she contributed to "Feasibility and pilot outcomes of the Move More @ Work intervention designed to encourage employees to be physically active for 2 minutes after every 30 minutes of sitting," published in the Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine alongside E.A. Hargreaves, S. Shaw, T. Scott, and M.C. Peddie. In 2022, her paper "Active travel in rural New Zealand: A study of rural adolescents’ perceptions of walking and cycling to school" appeared in Active Travel Studies, co-authored with D. Hopkins, E. García Bengoechea, K. Coppell, J.C. Spence, and S. Mandic. That same year, "Nature-based physical activity and hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing: The mediating roles of motivational quality and nature relatedness" was published in Frontiers in Psychology, with M. Jenkins, C. Lee, S. Houge Mackenzie, E.A. Hargreaves, and K. Hodge. Additional contributions include studies on changes in physical activity levels pre-, during and post-lockdown COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand and the explanatory role of daily hassles (2021, Frontiers in Psychology); and physical activity and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown, relationships with motivational quality and nature contexts (2021, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living).