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 a particular interest in the role of the outdoors for physical activity and mental wellbeing promotion. She has published internationally on physical activity and mental health, physical activity, and social prescribing interventions 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 20 years. She is a member of the British Association for Sport and Exercise Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health. She represents her University as the institutional lead in the WHO Health Enhancing Physical Activity EU Network (HEPA EU) and the national Wales Institute for Physical Activity, Health and Sport (WIPAHS). 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.