Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
The role of physical activity in preventing and managing disease and illness, and improving health and wellbeing.
My research and practice has focused on:-
- cardiac rehabilitation and exercise training for individuals with cardiovascular disease, particularly chronic heart failure.
- exercise programmes for individuals being treated for and/recovering from can
- exercise during pregnancy.
- exercise interventions to prevent falls in the elderly.
I have worked with NHS trusts, hospitals, condition-specific charities and leisure providers to research and implement positive outcomes for patients.
Supervisory Interests
I have supervised/am supervising PhDs in the following areas:-
- Exercise cardiology
- Detraining and muscle function
- Heat sensitivity in breast cancer survivors
- High intensity interval training
- Women’s decisions to exercise in pregnancy
Approach to teaching
Course Leader for BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science.
I encourage students to take an interest in what is going on around them - in the local or wider community - and to think about how this links to sport, exercise and health science. Relating a theoretical concept to something that is personally relevant in their lives often helps them to extend their learning beyond the degree course content.
I assist students into voluntary work on exercise referral and falls prevention interventions, and cardiac, stroke and cancer rehabilitation programmes as this enhances their learning, motivates their interest and can improve their employability.
I particularly enjoy this aspect of working with students individually or in small groups on exercise, nutrition and health-related projects in the community.
Education/Academic qualification
Higher Education Academy, UK
… → 2010
PhD, University of Brighton
… → 2010
University of Brighton
… → 2006
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
2011 → …
British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
2006 → …
External positions
External Examiner, MSc Applied Exercise and Health Science, Canterbury Christ Church University
2018 → …Adviser, CU Fitter initiative and Course Tutor for the CU Fitter Award in Applied Cancer Exercise (CIMSPA endorsed), Cancer United
2015 → …External Examiner, University of Chester, MSc Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation, University of Chester
2013 → 2017External Examiner, Foundation Degree and Progression to Honours in Health Promotion and Personal Training, University of Chichester
2008 → 2012Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Louisa Beale is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Research Output 2008 2019
The importance of contractile reserve in predicting exercise tolerance in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis
van Zalen, J., Badiani, S., Hart, L. M., Marshall, A. J., Beale, L., Brickley, G., Bhattacharyya, S., Patel, N. R. & Lloyd, G., 1 Sep 2019, In : Echo Research and Practice. 6, 3, p. 43-52 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Exercise Tolerance
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Exercise
Echocardiography
Hospitalization
Reliability of a wearable sweat rate monitor and routine sweat analysis techniques under heat stress in females
Relf, R., Willmott, A., Flint, M., Beale, L. & Maxwell, N., 18 Dec 2018, In : Journal of Thermal Biology. 79, p. 209-217Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Sweat
Hot Temperature
Sweat Glands
Walking
Steam Bath
Short-Term Psychological and Physiological Effects of Varying the Volume of High-Intensity Interval Training in Healthy Men
da Silva Machado, D. G., Costa, E. C., Ray, H., Beale, L., Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., de Farias-Junior, L. F. & Hardcastle, S., 21 Nov 2018, In : Perceptual and Motor Skills. 126, 1, p. 119-142 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Psychology
Physical Fitness
High-Intensity Interval Training
Emotions
Exercise
Prognostic importance of tissue velocity imaging during exercise echocardiography in patients with systolic heart failure
van Zalen, J., Patel, N. R., Podd, S., Raju, P., McIntosh, R., Brickley, G., Beale, L., Sturridge, L. P. & Lloyd, G., 1 Mar 2015, In : Echo Research and Practice. 2, 1, p. 19-27 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Systolic Heart Failure
Echocardiography
Exercise
Stress Echocardiography
Stroke Volume
Oxygen cost of recreational horse-riding in females
Beale, L., Maxwell, N., Gibson, O., Twomey, R., Taylor, B. & Church, A., 1 Jan 2014, In : Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 12, 6, p. 808-813 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
File
Horses
Oxygen
Costs and Cost Analysis
Oxygen Consumption
Walking
Activities 2016 2016
- 1 Research degree
Heat sensitivity and alleviating strategies for female breast cancer survivors
Neil Maxwell (Supervisor), Melaine Flint (Supervisor), Louisa Beale (Supervisor)2016 → …
Activity: External examination and supervision › Research degree