Rachel Wray

Rachel Wray serves as a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at Canterbury Christ Church University within the School of Sciences, Psychology, Arts and Humanities, Computing, Engineering and Sports. She holds Significant Responsibility for Independent Research (SRIR) status and serves as the Temporary Learning Agreement (TLA) Lead for Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Science.

Dr. Wray completed her PhD at the University of Lincoln in 2017 and joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 2019. Prior to this, she worked as a Learning and Evaluation Officer at Community Lincs, directing programme evaluation for Talk, Eat and Drink (TED) Ageing Better in East Lindsey, and served as a Qualitative Research Fellow at the Centre for Ageing and Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research (University of Leeds).

Her research employs qualitative methodologies to explore health and wellbeing, societal dynamics, ageing processes, identity formation, gender dimensions, physical activity participation, and embodied experiences. This work critically examines how social, cultural, and environmental contexts shape health behaviors and lived experiences across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on ageing populations.

Based in the Fleming building (room FG34) in Canterbury, Dr. Wray is contactable via email at rachel.wray@canterbury.ac.uk or telephone at 01227922165.