Manuel Herrador Colmenero

• Department of Didatic in Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expresion
  La Inmaculada Teacher Training Center
  University of Granada , España
  C/ Joaquina Eguaras,114,18013. Granada, Spain

Member of the PROFITH research Group and the Research Unit of Physical Activity and Health Promotion in the Research Institute of Sport and Health (iMUDS)

Manuel Herrador-Colmenero (Manu) graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Jaén (2006-2009) and Faculty of Sport Sciences at the University of Granada, Spain (2009-2011). He did the Reseach and Teaching in Physical Activity and Health Sciences Master in the University of Jaén (2010), the Doctoral Theses in Biomedicine at the University of Granada (2013-2018), thanks to the FPU Grant. He is teacher in La Inmaculada Teacher Training Centre since 2018.

His main research interests are:

– Physical activity and mode of commuting assessment.

– Phyical activity promotion strategies.

– Active methodologies as alternative in Physical Education lessons.

Top-5 publications

1. Chillon P, Herrador-Colmenero M,… Castro-Pinero J (2017). Convergent validation of a questionnaire to assess the mode and frequency of commuting to and from school. Scand J Public Health, 45 (6), 612-620.https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817718905

Contribution: This work analyse the psychometric characteristics of a tool to assess the active commuting to and/or from school. Up to date, there were used different assessment tools, but the diversity of them and its limited quality difficulted the comparisons between studies.

2. Herrador-Colmenero M,… Chillon P (2017). Children who commute to school unaccompanied have greater autonomy and perceptions of safety. Acta Paediatr, 106 (12), 2042-2047.https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14047

Contribution: In this work, autonomy and safety perceptions were studied in children who commuted actively and independently to school. This is the first Spanish study that analyse these variables, highlighting for teachers and policy makers the relevance to propose strategies that encourage active and independent.

3. Herrador-Colmenero M,… Chillon P. (2018). Longitudinal associations between weather, season, and mode of commuting to school among Spanish youths. Scand J Med Sci Sports, 28 (12), 2677-2685.https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13268

Contribution: this study analyse the relationship between de active commuting to and/or from school and weather (data obtained from the National Agency of Meteorology). Findings of this work reveal that middle weather conditions are associated with active commuting to and/or from school.

4. Galvez-Fernandez P,… Herrador-Colmenero M (2023). The patterns of active commuting to school change along the school-life in spanish youth. Int J Sustainable Transport, 17 (9), 982-989.https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2022.2133651

Contribution: This work studies the pattern of modes of commuting to and/or from school along school-life. The commuting to and/or from school behaviour is modified with the school stage change. These stage changes should be considered when strategies to encourage active commuting to and/or from school are designed.

5. Gálvez-Fernández P,… Herrador-Colmenero M (2023). Higher independent mobility to school among adolescents: A secondary analysis using cross-sectional data between 2010 and 2017 in Spanish youth. Acta Paediatr. 112(3):469-476.https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.16612

Contribution: The study analyse the independent mobility to and/or from school in Spanish children and adolescents. Age and gender differences to commute independently have been found, being relevant to focus strategies to promote this behavior in children and female student.