Susie Benson 
Regional Manager, CIMSPA. Susie is responsible for leading the direction and provision of the local skills work CIMSPA deliver across the Scottish sport and physical activity workforce system. She brings more than twelve years of experience in sport and physical activity workforce development to her current role as Regional Manager at CIMSPA. Her partnership work with stakeholders across the sector physical activity workforce system has enabled CIMSPA to support employers and education providers upskill their workforce to help meet the needs of their communities.
Kirsty Cumming, CEO
Kirsty Cumming has been with Community Leisure UK for 11 years, primarily leading on the engagement and policy work in Scotland until she was appointed as Chief Executive in November 2020.
She has extensive experience in working with leisure trusts, local authorities, local and national governments, and the NHS to advocate the role of public leisure services. She is passionate about the role of public leisure and culture for communities and believes that the charitable trust model delivers effective community focused services based on local needs.
Aidan Gallacher 
Aidan is the CEO of Actify, a social enterprise based in Glasgow that helps organisations working in the physical activity sector to learn, share and connect through the Actify platform and associated training programmes.
Prior to establishing Actify in 2016, Aidan worked in a number of roles in the private, public and third sector on projects including: Nokia Street Football, Castrol Race Academy, Boris Becker Open, Inter Milan winter training camp, Twilight Basketball, Active East and Bowling Out Aids.
Actify plays a unique role in the sport and physical activity sector in Scotland, working closely with organisations across policy, research and practice. Partners include the Scottish Government, a number of leading universities alongside a wide range of public and third sector organisations that deliver play, sport and physical activity provision.
Flora Jackson
Flora is the Health Improvement Manager for Physical Activity at Public Health Scotland. She has extensive experience in physical activity and public health and has worked nationally on this agenda for the past 19 years, initially with NHS Health Scotland prior to the formation of Public Health Scotland in 2020. Prior to her national role, Flora worked for a number of local authorities. Initially as a teacher of physical education before changing career direction and becoming more involved in the development of physical activity for health. In her national role, Flora endeavours to influence the integration of the public health dimensions of physical activity into and across policy and practice. She has led a number of national physical activity developments including the development and feasibility study of the , the creation of the and more recently the development and implementation of .
Eileen Jennow
Eileen Jennow is a Health Improvement Manager working with Public Health Scotland. Eileen has over 15 years’ experience in health improvement, both at local and national level. Eileen’s role in the physical activity team focuses on physical activity and health and seeks to reduce inequalities and improve equity of services for those experiencing the poorest outcomes in Scotland.
Jessica John
Jessica is a University of Glasgow student, studying MSc Sports, Exercise Science and Medicine with an interest in Physical activity, Public Health, and Mental health.
Dr Paul Kelly
Paul is a Reader in Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh. He is based in the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC). Paul’s research interests are spread across three main areas: Evaluating physical activity programmes and policies, Promotion of walking and cycling for communities and populations and Communication of health guidelines and public health messages.
Dr Coral Hanson
Dr Coral Hanson is a senior research fellow at Â鶹ÉçÇø. Prior to working at Napier, she spent 20 years working in the public leisure sector environment and undertook a physical activity referral related PhD. Her research focuses on factors influencing participation in physical activity interventions for those with non-communicable diseases and resultant changes in physical activity behaviour. She is principal investigator for the Chief Scientist Office funded study Assessing the implementation of the Public Health Scotland Physical Activity Referral Standards: A process evaluation.
Colin Huffen
Associate Director for Policy and Professional Services, CIMSPA. Colin is responsible for ensuring workforce policy across the UK supports people to be the best they can be and thrive in their career aspirations. He has worked for CIMSPA for 7 years having spent the whole of his career in workforce development for the sport and physical activity sector in organisations such as, The Association of Colleges, UK Coaching, Skills Active, British Swimming & Loughborough College.
Dr Sheona McHale 
Sheona is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cardiovascular Health, Â鶹ÉçÇø. Her work focuses on physical activity behaviour interventions, with contributions to several studies on physical activity referral pathways. Sheona has demonstrated history of working in the health and fitness industry, including delivering exercise based cardiac rehabilitation.
Eriselda Mino
Eriselda is a research assistant at the Department of Sport Science and Sport at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Her background is in physiotherapy as well as physical activity and health. Her research interests focus on Physical Activity Referral Schemes, with the aim of understanding their effectiveness and optimising outcomes through intervention design and other strategies. She has recently developed a strong interest in systems thinking and its application to PARS.
Kirstie Morrice 
Kirstie is a 2nd Year MSc Physiotherapy student, who took the opportunity to work with the collaborative group to broaden her understanding of Physical Activity Referral Schemes in Scotland to enhance her practice as a Physiotherapist, as well as gaining an insight into public health research.
Professor Emily Oliver 
Emily is a Professor of Behavioural Sciences at Newcastle University, and Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's Policy Research Unit in Behavioural and Social Sciences. Her research explores how social environments shape motivation, with a focus on how we can use this understanding to design and deliver more equitable health interventions. She is particularly interested in the intersection between physical and mental health.
Dan Steward
Dan is an early career researcher who explores how we can design and deliver health support to those living with a range of health and social needs. He is currently working as a research assistant at Newcastle University on the WHOLE-SMI project, promoting physical health for individuals living with severe mental ill-health. He is in the final stages of a PhD at Aberystwyth University exploring the perspectives and experiences of people living with prediabetes and their motivation to engage in and sustain health behaviours.
Niall Taylor 
Niall Taylor is the Strategy Manager for Active Scotland in the Scottish Government. He leads on physical activity policy for recreational walking, older people and data and evidence. He has worked in the Scottish Government for 35 years including roles in cancer policy and Marine Scotland.
Dr Simone Tomaz
Simone Tomaz completed her PhD in Exercise Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and currently works as a Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of Stirling. Simone’s research area focusses on physical activity at opposite ends of the age spectrum, but more recently has focussed on children and adolescents on a project with Paths for All. Additionally, Simone is on the editorial board for the Journal of Physical Activity and Health (JPAH) and is a member of the team that reviews evidence for the Scotland Healthy Active Kids Report Card.
Chris Topping
Chris is a Health and Wellbeing Specialist within the Health and Social Care Partnership in Dumfries and Galloway. He has over 20 years' experience working in physical activity and public health policy and practice.
Chris works with local and national organisations and community partners on the design, delivery and evaluation of physical activity plans and programmes that aim to enable people to be more physically active. He has contributed to a broad range of research papers, sharing collaborative work undertaken in Dumfries and Galloway, including systems based approaches and physical literacy.
In his local role, Chris is working on embedding the National Physical Activity Pathway across Health and Social Care practice using system-based approaches.
Mark Tweedie
With 13 years at the Chief Executive level in public leisure organisations, Mark has a history of leading organisational improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Mark has led the creation of high performing teams and supported them to innovate and redesign services to increase impact across the domains of physical activity, sport, health/ wellbeing, education, employability and social support.
Marks leadership has led to national awards, including the ukactive Outstanding Leadership Award and Organisation of the Year Award.