Sue Kesterton BSc (Hons), MSc
Exercise Science Officer
Summary
Sue is an Exercise, Health and Wellbeing Officer at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and has over 13 years' experience within public health. Sue specialises in Workplace Wellness programmes and Exercise for clinical populations across a broad portfolio of health research, consultancy and teaching. Sue is committed to interventions that have a positive impact on health and wellbeing and has significant experience delivering, managing and evaluating public health programmes.
About
Sue is an Exercise, Health and Wellbeing Officer and Honorary Public Health Hub Associate at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. Sue successfully completed her Masters degree at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Exercise Science and Wellness in 2005 with a distinction for her thesis on healthy lifestyle support in type 2 diabetes. Prior to this she studied Biology, Exercise and Health at Oxford Brookes University.
She has developed over 13 years' experience in applied research, teaching and consultancy. Sue specialises in Workplace Wellness programmes and Exercise for clinical populations across a broad portfolio of health research, consultancy and teaching. She is an Advanced Exercise Instructor with the Register of Exercise Professionals specialising in Exercise Referral, Cancer and Cardiac rehabilitation. Sue is a highly skilled health promotion practitioner and is trained in Advanced Motivational Interviewing to facilitate lifestyle related behaviour change, evidenced though the successful impact of several interventions. She is a qualified Associate Lecturer and is a guest tutor on undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Physical Activity for Health.
Sue is committed to interventions that have a positive impact on health and wellbeing and has significant experience delivering, managing and evaluating public health programmes. This includes providing over 2,000 health, fitness and lifestyle assessments and has led a range of health promotion workshops for employees from a range of organisations including Higher Education, NHS, Local Authority and SMEs. She has trained over 200 managers on the topic of health and wellbeing and trained 100 nurses and health professionals on healthy lifestyle advice.
Sue has published and presented research at both national and international conferences and was recently nominated for an international young researcher award at the European Public Health Conference.
Sue's specialist area of interest is in Public Health, Behaviour Change and Clinical Exercise Interventions.
Publications
Key Publications
Kesterton, S., Crank, H., Tew, G., Michaels, J., Gumber, A., McIntosh, E., ... Klonizakis, M. (2019). . International Wound Journal.
Tew, G.A., Gumber, A., Mcintosh, E., Kesterton, S., King, B., Michaels, J.A., & Klonizakis, M. (2017). . European Journal of Applied Physiology, 118 (2), 321-329.
Flint, S., Scaife, R., Kesterton, S., Humphreys, L., Copeland, R., Crank, H., ... Carter, A. (2016). . Perspectives in Public Health, 136 (5), 295-301.
Journal articles
Such, E., Burton, H., Copeland, R., Davies, R., Goyder, E., Jeanes, R., ... Magee, J. (2019). . Journal of mental health.
Goyder, E., Hind, D., Dimairo, M., Minton, J., Everson-Hock, E., Reade, S., ... Cooper, C. (2014). . Health technology assessment, 18 (13), 1-210.
Carter, A.M., Daley, A.J., Kesterton, S.W., Woodroofe, N., Saxton, J.M., & Sharrack, B. (2013). . Contemporary Clinical Trials, 35 (2), 40-47.
Presentations
Kesterton, S. (2016). Poster: Exploring the patient experience in a supervised exercise intervention for participants with venous ulcers. Presented at: Public Health England Annual Conference
Other activities
Career mentor at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (2014 - current date) https://careerscentral.shu.ac.uk/getting-experience/career-mentoring
Journal reviewer - Health Education Journal
Member of Sheffield City Council's workplace wellbeing steering committee.
Dissertation Supervisor:
Sport & Exercise Science MSc
Physical Activity & Health, BSc (Hons)
Media
Sue's expertise is in exercise, healthy eating, smoking cessation and cardiac rehabilitation. She is a health promotion practitioner who uses motivational interviewing to enable individuals to achieve their personal lifestyle and health-related goals.