Higher Education Institution Lead
Cardiff Metropolitan University
University Profile:
https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/schoolofsport/staff/Pages/Professor-Diane-Crone.aspx
Research Links:
ORCiD
ResearchGate
About
Diane is a Professor in Exercise and Health at the Cardiff Metropolitan University, Director of the Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research (CAWR), and the lead for the University’s Health and Human Performance Global Academy. Her expertise lies in the design, delivery and evaluation of health promoting interventions in primary and secondary health care, and in the community. She has interests in a number of areas, including the role of the outdoors for physical activity and mental wellbeing, arts and health, and systems-based approaches to physical activity promotion. She has published internationally on physical activity and mental health, exercise interventions, social prescribing including arts on prescription, and nature-based wellbeing programmes. She has worked and led extensively on numerous EU and UK wide projects over the past 25 years. She is a Steering Group member of the Wales School of Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR) and a Non-Executive Director (University) for Public Health Wales.
