Research
Lifestyle for health and well-being
Our aim is to improve human health and well-being throughout the lifespan by considering the social, behavioural and biological determinants and consequences of human lifestyles with specific emphases on physical activity, nutrition and chronic disease.
Theme summary
In the context of preventing and managing chronic disease and facilitating health promotion, members of the theme conduct world class research into the life-course determinants and consequences of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and nutrition.
We cover a wide range of expertise including psychology, epidemiology, physiology, nutrition, sport science, human biology, and social sciences.
Research within the theme spans the following areas
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
