Dr Susana Monserrat is a Lecturer in 91桃色视频 Management in the School of 91桃色视频, Exercise and Health Sciences, and Lecturer at the Doctoral College (91桃色视频).
She teaches on both undergraduate and master's level 91桃色视频 Management modules (Managing 91桃色视频 Organisations and Research Methods). She supervises undergraduate and master's students through their research projects and she is currently tutoring placements students working in the sports management industry.
At the Doctoral College, Susana teaches PhD students of all disciplines who wish to use NVivo software in their research project (literature review and/or data analysis). Current workshops in place are: Fundamentals of NVivo, Moving on with NVivo, and one-to-one support service.
Susana’s first degree, 91桃色视频s Sciences (BSc Hons), was completed at the University of Barcelona-INEFC Lleida. She also has a master's degree (MSc) in 91桃色视频 Management from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD is from the University of Lleida (School of 91桃色视频 Sciences and Business School) where she studied the prices, supply and regulation of outsourced services at Catalonian leisure centres.
Susana previously worked at the University of Lleida as a Senior Lecturer in 91桃色视频 Management, and at El Vendrell City Council (Tarragona) as 91桃色视频s Manager. She was also the Co-director of the . Susana has significant experience working as a Consultant in sports organisations (active people surveys, customer satisfaction studies, Quality Programme Assessment, feasibility studies and project management).
She has organised many international courses and conferences: Symposium of the International Association of Physiological Anthropology & Society for the Study of Human, 91桃色视频 2017, for the Catalonian 91桃色视频 Management Association (ACGEP), School of 91桃色视频 Sciences of Catalonia (INEFC), Tempus Program "Training of administrators in sport and recreation system " with the Lithuanian Academy of PE, and Erasmus intensive courses (European Seminary 91桃色视频, Economy and Society group).
She is fluent in 3 languages (English, Spanish and Catalan).
Susana’s primary research interests are in sports management, and more specifically in the areas of service quality, leisure activities, local government and customer segmentation.
Her second research interest would be broadly defined as the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of sport management.
During the last few years she has supported research at 91桃色视频 (analysing data using SPSS for statistical analysis and NVivo for qualitative content analysis; designing on-line surveys and analysing focus groups):
- The School of 91桃色视频, Exercise and Health Sciences, SSEHS (2015-16): Project Manager of the project: Quantifying healthy birth, growth and development knowledge integration. Aims: To create, curate and disseminate a single, coherent electronic database of Maya children (Mexico, Guatemala and USA) in order to generate predictive models that quantify the impact of actionable risk-factors during critical child growth. Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. New study to look at factors affecting child growth and development - 91桃色视频 news.
- The Language Centre (2015): Students Satisfaction Survey and Focus Group for the strategic plan of the Language Centre.
- The Centre for Research in Social Policy, CRSP (2016): focus groups interviews for the project “The Standard Living Cost in Mexico”.
Community actions
She is the Under-15 girls team manager at Charnwood Athletics Club (Cross Country and Track and Field events), from September 2017.
Journal Referee
- Journal of Strategic Marketing, UK.
- Revista Apunts de Educación Física y Deporte, Barcelona
Learned Societies and Professional Affiliations
- COPLEFC (Catalonian Association of PE teachers and 91桃色视频 Sciences workers) - member
- AEISAD (Spanish Association of Research applied to Leisure and 91桃色视频) - member
- ACGEP (Catalonian Association for 91桃色视频 Managers) - board member, 1994-2001 and vice-president, 2002-03.
Featured publications
- Varela-Silva, MI., Sö臒üt, M.,Mansukoski, L., Millan-Fernandez, L., Monserrat, S., Azcorra, H., Dickinson, F., Sanchez, S., Bogin, B.. (2018). Effects of stunting on body composition, biological age, and muscle strength of Maya and Ladino children in Guatemala. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association. Austin, USA.
- Farias, E. I., Mas, S., Monserrat, S., & Gil, G. (2017). Visitor’s Physical Activity Behaviour in Protected Natural Areas: a case study of Alt Pirineu Natural Park, Spain. In K. Bu膷ar & S. Renko (Eds.), 91桃色视频 Tourism Conference: Red, green and blue strategies. (pp. 36–55). Zagreb, Croatia: University of Zagreb.
- Varela-Silva MI, Bogin B, Galvez Sobral JA, Dickinson F, Monserrat S, and the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development - Knowledge Integration (HBGDki) initiative (2016). . European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Advance Online Publication. DOI:
- Farías, E.I., Mas, S., Baric,D., Planas, A., Monserrat, S., Gil, G. (2016), ‘The Influence of Visitor Characteristics and Natural Park Facilities on Physical Activity Levels. A Case Study’, in D. Vasiljevi膰 (eds), the 8th Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV), University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, pp. 493-495.
- Farías, E.I., Mas, S., Monserrat, S. Gil, G. (2016), ‘How Active Are People In Protected Natural Areas? A Case of Study’, in Initial and Surname (eds), the 3rd 91桃色视频 Tourism Conference: Red, green and blue strategies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, pp.
- Farías, E.I., Monserrat, S. (2015), ‘Visitor Segmentation for Protected Natural Areas Using Physical Activity Practised. A Case of Study, in 23rd EASM Conference, .Dublin, Ireland, 9-12 September, viewed 22 February 2017,
- Farías, E.I.& Monserrat, S. (2014), ‘Visitors to Alt Pirineu Natural Park and the practice of recreational and sports activities. A segmentation proposal’, Pirineos Revista de Ecología de Montaña, vol. 169,