Ageing, Physical Activity, Recreation and Wellbeing

Barbara Humberstone, PhD, is Professor of Sociology of Sport and Outdoor Education at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Her research interests include physical activity and ageing healthily, nature-based sport and the senses, wellbeing, and outdoor pedagogies. Her long-term, grounding concern is the interconnections in embodiment and social and environmental action/justice. Her most recent publications, as editor and co-editor, include International Handbook of Outdoor Studies (2016), Shaped by the sea: Embodied Narratives and Fluid Geographies (2015), Urban nature: inclusive learning through youth work and school work’ (2014), and Third Age and Leisure Research: Principles and Practice (2010). Together with Professor Cutler-Riddick, she published “Older women, embodiment and yoga practice” in the Ageing and Society Journal (2014). She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.Maria Konstantaki, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition in the Department of Advanced Health Sciences at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Maria is a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has worked with a range of individuals and groups including athletes, recreational exercisers and physically active older people, offering physiological testing support and nutritional advice. Her primary research interests include physical activity and ageing, physiology of swimming, and nutritional supplements. Her publications include “Effectiveness of commercial versus homemade sports drinks on exercise capacity and hydration status during intermittent, high intensity exercise” (2015; American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine), Effect of physical activity on emotions and mood states of 50–65 year old male and female participants (2012; ATINER) and Dry-land ergometry in physiological assessment of swimmers: practical applications and training recommendations (2010; Lambert Academic Publishing). She is also section editor of the Athens Journal of Sport.