Research
Lifestyle for health and well-being
The Lifestyle for Health and Wellbeing theme encompasses research across several disciplines with the common goal of facilitating healthy living and ageing across the lifespan. Our aim is to provide evidence-based knowledge to improve human health and well-being throughout an individual’s whole life by considering the social, behavioural, nutritional and biological determinants and consequences of human lifestyles.
Theme summary
Theme members conduct world-leading research with the common aim of providing evidence-based knowledge that facilitates improved physical and mental health and wellbeing, lowers the risk of communicable and non-communicable disease, and aids the effective management of pre-existing conditions.
Our work spans from global population research to molecular biology. As such we cover a wide range of expertise including: epidemiology, psychology, physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, human and molecular biology, rehabilitation science and social sciences.
Research within the theme spans the following areas
03/05/2021
Hearing loss, noncommunicable diseases and physical activity
Maria Goodwin, Professor Eef Hogervorst and Dr David Maidment
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University
Presented at the Fifth International Meeting on Internet & Audiology
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16/03/2021
The impact of sedentary behaviour on how we psychologically respond to short-term psychological stress
NIHR, Leicester Biomedical Research Centre
Aiden Chauntry, Dr Nicolette Bishop, Mark Hamer, Nicola Paine
Listen to this presentation here
21/01/2020
Principal Investigator Essentials Training - WORKSHOP
East Midlands Clinical Research Network
06/12/2019
Health and physical activity profile of transport workers in Denmark’ from Dphacto and one other study sample
Dr Mette Korshøj Larsen, National Research Center for the Work Environment (Denmark)
04/12/2019
Tabata training-One of the most energetically effective high-intensity intermittent training methods
Professor Izumi Tabata, Ritsumeikan University
21/11/2019
Exercise after cancer: Evidence-based strategies to help more survivors move more (and sit less)
Professor Catherine Sabiston, University of Toronto
05/11/2019
Developing and evaluating physical activity interventions to improve mental health & well-being
Professor Adrian Taylor, University of Plymouth
26/06/2019
Importance of physician referral to optimize adherence to physical activity in adults with MS
Dr Audrey Hicks, McMaster University
10/06/2019
Research Seminar: Truck-Fit: A scalable high-intensity interval training program to improve heart health, sleep quality and fatigue in high-risk truck drivers
Associate Professor Nicholas Gilson, University of Queensland
22/05/2019
Presentation: Infographics boost research impact and dissemination
12/04/2019
The global physical activity movement – where have we come from and where are we going
Dr Karen Milton
20/03/2019
Culture and Mental Health in the UK High-Performance System
Dr James Bell, Head of Mental Health at EIS, Head of Culture Development at UK Sport
20/03/2019
Presentation by Jacqueline Donachie
14/02/2019
Motor competence and the isotemporal substitution of physical activity, sedentary time and sleep among early years children
Dr Clark Cain
15/01/2019
NIHR Clinical Research Network East Midlands; ‘Who we are and how we can help you develop funding bids’
10/01/2019
Stress and cardiovascular reactivity: consequences of extreme stress reactions
Professor Anne Whittaker, University of Birmingham
04/12/2018
New Dimensions in Biological Psychiatry Research - Opportunities for Intervention vs. Optimization
Dr Erik Wong
25/10/2018
Beyond audibility - The role of supra-threshold auditory and cognitive processing in speech perception across the adult lifespan
Christian Fullgrabe, Loughborough University
24/10/2018
Perceptual-cognitive skills and expertise in sport
Professor Mark Williams
10/10/2018
Community-based interventions to improve the nutrition of infants and young children
30/07/2018
Increasing the implementation of physical activity policies and programs in Australian primary and secondary schools: learnings from Hunter New England Population Health Research Group
Dr Nathan
Dr Sutherland
19/07/2018
Seminar on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Health
Professor Wendy Brown
03/07/2018
Pump Up Your Blood Vessels and Heart: Myths and Realities of Resistance Training and Cardiovascular Function
Professor Maureen MacDonald, McMaster University
23/03/2018
Methods in life-course health and wellbeing research
14/02/2018
Medical Research Council workshop
04/12/2017
Stress and chronic disease: how important is the magnitude of our acute stress response?
Dr Anne Tuner, Deakin University
28/11/2017
Research seminar
Professor Martin Hagger, Curtin University
06/06/2017
Exercise guideline development for adults with a spinal cord injury
Dr Jan van der Scheer, Loughborough University
31/05/2017
NIHR Grant Writing Workshop
15/02/2017
Resilience-building for children who experience trauma: the importance of sports
Professor Panos Vostanis, University of Leicester
29/06/2016
Sleep, Sport and Psychology
Dr Kenneth Lichstein, University of Alabama
