Rate My Professor Brett Smith

Smith authored the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines (2019) and led the first UK guidelines for physical activity among disabled adults (2018) and disabled children and young people (2022), co-produced with disabled people and organizations to establish new standards in communication. As Principal Investigator of the award-winning Moving Social Work project—a £1m+ transdisciplinary initiative with Disability Rights UK—he integrates physical activity into social work education and practice. He advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care, ParalympicsGB, Sport England, and the German Federal Ministry of Health. Consistently ranked among the Top 100 Cited Researchers worldwide in Sport Sciences, his key publications include the book Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product (Sparkes & Smith, 2013), the edited Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology (Schinke et al., 2016), and articles such as “Developing Rigor in Qualitative Research” (Smith, 2018) and “Co-production: A Resource to Guide Co-producing Research” (Smith et al., 2023). Smith founded and formerly edited Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, was past President of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, serves on multiple editorial boards, guest-edited special issues, and is a REF2029 Panel Member for Unit 24 (Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism). He delivers regular international keynotes and contributes to handbooks including the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (6th Ed., 2024).