Staff profile

Caroline joined Durham University in August 2014. She was previously Principal Lecturer and Director of Programmes within the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University. Caroline was awarded her PhD. in 2005 by the University of Exeter (supervised by Professor Neil Armstrong and Dr Joanne Welsman at the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre).

Caroline has many years of experience across novel design and evaluation of research linked to community-based physical activity, health and inequalities. Most recently she has been leading cross and interdisciplinary research across two themes:

1. Consideration of the need for universal versus targeted programmes and provision of understanding for local partners across design, evaluation and effectiveness of strategies for underserved communities. We have published extensively around exercise referral, providing policy insight to local partners. Nationally, recent work funded by Sport England and in partnership with Durham Research Methods Centre, has been around modelling of Active Lives datasets to impute missing data and provide local-level intelligence on sport and volunteering inequalities linked to a range of different sociodemographic factors. 

2. Use of novel concepts and methods to enable interdisciplinary study of physical activity and health inequalities in young people at-risk of marginalisation. Whilst most researchers would now agree that physical activity inequalities exist, there is little insight into the complexity of inactivity, or indeed how to work with young people to better understand and mediate this. In our work, we apply different (and often non-traditional) methods to empower change in different ways. For example, we recently conceptualised physical activity insecurity as limiting the ability to be active and reinforced by worries and experiences of feeling uncomfortable or unsafe, for young people already experiencing inequalities.

Caroline's work has been published in numerous different international academic journals and she regularly presents at national and international conferences. She is a member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health, the International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, and HEPA. She is a Topic Editor for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and sits on the Editorial Board for Physical Therapy Reviews. Regionally, Caroline is on the steering group for the Fuse Physical Activity Network (Fuse, the SPHR funded Centre for Translational Research in Public Health) and has been on the organising committee for numerous Fuse workshops. She is also Co-Director of the Physical Activity Special Interest Group, an interdisciplinary network within the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham University.

Caroline is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and has a wealth of internal and external academic quality and standards experience across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has held various departmental and faculty leadership roles throughout her career, and is currently Director of Education for the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences where she has strategic responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.

• Community-based physical activity and inequalities
• Novel methods to explore physical activity and inequalities

• 2000: External Examiner Newcastle University: BSc (Hons) Exercise Biomedicine; BSc Sport and Exercise Sciences
• 2000: Chief External Examiner University of Gloucestershire: Faculty of Business, Computing and Applied Sciences
• 2000: Topic Board Editor: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2000: Editorial Board Member: Physical Therapy Reviews
• 2000: Working Groups:
  • Fuse’ Physical Activity Working Group

Journal Article

• Dodd-Reynolds, C., Hall, S., Crowder, M., Goodyear, V., Griffin, N., Fairbrother, H., Pope, S., & Scott, S. (2024). 204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles. European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2), ckae114.097. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.097
• Fairbrother, H., Woodrow, N., Holding, E., Crowder, M., Griffin, N., Er, V., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Egan, M., Scott, S., Summerbell, C., Rigby, E., Kyle, P., Knights, N., Quirk, H., & Goyder, E. (2024). ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19537-z
• Dodd-Reynolds, C., Griffin, N., Kyle, P., Scott, S., Fairbrother, H., Holding, E., Crowder, M., Woodrow, N., & Summerbell, C. (2024). Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 813. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18078-9
• Griffin, N., Crowder, M., Kyle, P., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Summerbell, C., & Scott, S. (2023). ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3, Article 100263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100263
• Bruce, M., Gangoli, G., Mates, L., Millican, A. S., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2023). Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19. Student engagement in higher education journal, 5(1), 61-82
• Fairbrother, H., Woodrow, N., Crowder, M., Holding, E., Griffin, N., Er, V., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Egan, M., Lock, K., Scott, S., Summerbell, C., McKeown, R., Rigby, E., Kyle, P., & Goyder, E. (2022). ‘It All Kind of Links Really’: Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), Article 3679. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063679
• Rigby, B., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Oliver, E. (2022). The understanding, application and influence of complexity in national physical activity policy-making. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20, Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-022-00864-9
• Jones, W., Pearson, A., Glassbrook, D., Slater, G., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Hind, K. (2022). Precision of the GE Lunar total body-less head scan for the measurement of three-compartment body composition in athletes. Journal of Clinical Densitometry, 25, 692-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocd.2022.08.008
• Oliver, E., Buckley, B., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Downey, J., Hanson, C., Henderson, H., Hawkins, J., Steele, J., Wade, M., & Watson, P. (2021). Where next for the design, delivery and evaluation of community-based physical activity prescription? Emerging lessons from the United Kingdom. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 46(11), https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2021-0101
• Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Kasim, A., & Vallis, D. (2021). Inequalities and inclusion in exercise referral schemes: a mixed-method multi-scheme analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), Article 3033. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063033
• Dodd-Reynolds, C., Vallis, D., Kasim, A., Akhter, N., & Hanson, C. (2020). The Northumberland Exercise Referral Scheme as a universal community weight management programme: a mixed methods exploration of outcomes, expectations and experiences across a social gradient. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), Article 5297. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155297
• Hanson, C., Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Kelly, P. (2020). We are failing to improve the evidence base for “Exercise Referral”: How a Physical Activity Referral Scheme Taxonomy can help. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54(12), 696-697. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101485
• Chapman, P., Lindsey, I., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Oliver, E., & Summerbell, C. (2020). Targeting childhood obesity through primary schools: reviewing alignment amongst English policies for physical activity and healthy eating. Child and Adolescent Obesity, 3(1), 20-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/2574254x.2020.1740548
• Rigby, B., van der Graaf, P., Azevedo, L., Hayes, L., Gardner, B., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2020). Challenges, opportunities and solutions for local physical activity stakeholders: an implementation case study from a cross-sectoral physical activity network in Northeast England. BMC Public Health, 20, Article 1760. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09847-3
• Hanson, C. L., Oliver, E. J., Dodd-Reynolds, C. J., Pearsons, A., & Kelly, P. (2020). A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 17(1), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01050-2
• Rigby, B., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Oliver, E. (2020). Inequities and inequalities in outdoor walking groups: a scoping review. Public Health Reviews, 41, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-020-00119-4
• Dodd-Reynolds, C., Nevens, L., Oliver, E., Finch, T., Lake, A., & Hanson, C. (2019). Prototyping for public health in a local context: a streamlined evaluation of a community-based weight management programme (Momenta), Northumberland, UK. BMJ Open, 9(10), Article e029718. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029718
• Hanson, C., Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Allin, L. (2019). How do participant experiences and characteristics influence engagement in exercise referral? A qualitative longitudinal study of a scheme in Northumberland, United Kingdom. BMJ Open, 9(2), Article e024370. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024370
• Morris, A., Cramb, R., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2018). Food intake and appetite following school-based high-intensity interval training in 9–11-year-old children. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36(3), 286-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2017.1302599
• Dodd-Reynolds, C., Asenlof, P., & Hellstrom, K. (2017). Special issue – physical activity and health. Physical Therapy Reviews, 22(3-4), 101-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10833196.2017.1335823
• Kelly, M., Rae, G., Walker, D., Partington, S., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Caplin, N. (2016). Retrospective cohort study of the South Tyneside Exercise Referral Scheme 2009–14: Predictors of dropout and barriers to adherence. Journal of Public Health, 39(4), e257-e264. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw122
• Oliver, E., Hanson, C., Lindsey, I., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2016). Exercise on referral: Evidence and complexity at the nexus of public health and sport policy. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8(4), 731-736. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2016.1182048
• Allsop, S., Green, B., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Barry, G., & Rumbold, P. (2016). Comparison of short-term energy intake and appetite responses to active and seated video gaming, in 8 to 11 year-old boys. British Journal of Nutrition, 115(06), 1117-1125. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114515005437
• Allsop, S., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Green, B., Debuse, D., & Rumbold, P. (2015). Acute effects of active gaming on ad libitum energy intake and appetite sensations of 8–11-year-old boys. British Journal of Nutrition, 114(12), 2148-2155. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114515003724
• Allsop, S., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Debuse, D., & Rumbold, P. (2013). Real Life Active Gaming Practices of 7-to-11 Year-Old Children. Games for Health Journal, 2(6), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2013.0050
• Rumbold, P., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Stevenson, E. (2013). Agreement between paper and pen visual analogue scales and a wristwatch-based electronic appetite rating system (PRO-Diary), for continuous monitoring of free-living subjective appetite sensations in 7–10 year old children. Appetite, 69(1), 180-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2013.06.005
• Hanson, C., Ellis, J., Allin, L., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2013). An evaluation of the efficacy of the exercise on referral scheme in Northumberland, UK: association with physical activity and predictors of engagement. A naturalistic observation study. BMJ Open, 3(8), Article e002849. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002849
• Rumbold, P., Dodd-Reynolds, C., & Stevenson, E. (2013). Informing Primary School Nutritional Policy: Effects of Mid-Morning Snacks on Appetite and Energy Control. Food and Nutrition Sciences, 4(5), 529-537. https://doi.org/10.4236/fns.2013.45068
• Rumbold, P., St Clair Gibson, A., Stevenson, E., King, J., Stensel, D., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2013). Influence of netball-based exercise on energy intake, subjective appetite and plasma acylated ghrelin in adolescent girls. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 38(8), 854-861. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2012-0466
• Rumbold, P., St Clair Gibson, A., Stevenson, E., King, J., Stensel, D., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2013). Reply to Discussion of "Influence of netball-based exercise on energy intake, subjective appetite and plasma acylated ghrelin in adolescent girls". Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 38(11), 1171-1172. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2013-0266
• Rumbold, P. L. S., St Clair Gibson, A., Stevenson, E., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2011). Agreement between two methods of dietary data collection in female, adolescent netball players. Appetite, 56(2), 443-447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2011.06.013
• Rumbold, P., St Clair Gibson, A., Allsop, S., Stevenson, E., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2011). Energy intake and appetite following netball exercise over 5 days in trained 13–15 year old girls. Appetite, 56, 621-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2011.02.014
• Dodd, C., Welsman, J., & Armstrong, N. (2008). Energy intake and appetite following exercise in lean and overweight girls. Appetite, 51(3), 428-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2008.03.009
• Dodd, C. J. (2007). Invited Review article: Energy Regulation in Young People. Journal of sports science and medicine, 6(3), 327-336
• Moore, M. S., Dodd, C. J., Welsman, J. R., & Artmstrong, N. (2004). Short-term appetite and energy intake following imposed exercise in 9- to 10-year-old girls. Appetite, 43(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2004.02.008