Professor Lauren Sherar

Pronouns: She/her
  • Acting Dean of School
  • Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health
Publications
Lauren Sherar

Professor Lauren Sherar graduated from Nottingham Trent University combined honours programme in Sport Science and Biology in 2001. She then went on to obtain a master’s (2004) and doctoral (2008) degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada in the area of physical activity and health with a focus on child and adolescent growth and development. Since 2008 Professor Sherar worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Bath (2008-10) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan (2010-12). Professor Sherar was appointed as a lecturer in Physical Activity and Public Health at Loughborough University in 2012. She is currently the Acting Dean in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.

Research areas

  • Device assessed physical activity and sedentary behaviour
  • Growth and Development of children
  • Obesity
  • Pragmatic public health interventions and evaluations
  • Implementation Science

Selected research grants

  • Agyemang C, Sherar LB, Griffiths PL; Asiki, G; Bosmans, J; Broulikova H., de Wit, A; Laar, A., Van de Vijvere, S; Holdsworth, M., Multi-component interventions to reducing unhealthy diets and physical inactivity among adolescents and youth in sub-Saharan Africa: Generation H. European Union, Horizon & UKRI. €3,000,000.00 2023-2028
  • Chin A Paw M, Esliger DW, Sherar, LB, Schipperijn J, Bach K, Kraaij W, Sabia S, Lykkegaard K, Chastin S, Rowlands A.  Learning Network for Advanced Behavioural Data Analysis, European Commission, Horizon: MSCA Doctoral Network & UKRI. € 3,804,394.00 2023-2028
  • Orton (PI), Sherar LB (Institutional PI), Gussy M (Institutional PI), Barnes J, Rees P, Bayley, J., Kendrick, D., Gordon A., Logan P., Morling, L., East Midlands: Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST), National Institute for Health Research, £2,500,000.00 2022-2027
  • Daley, A (PI), Sherar LB, Esliger DW, Yates, T, Edwardson C, Burt C, Frew E, Parretti H, Skrybant M, Ives N, Tearne S, Greaves C, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Greenfield S.  Snacktivity’ to promote physical activity and reduce future risk of disease in the population. NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research, £2,212,005.00 2019-2024. Contribute to the management, direction and leadership of this multi-site, international programme grant; lending expertise in developing and evaluating sedentary behaviour interventions.

Featured publications

  • Krouwel M, Greenfield SM, Chalkley A, Sanders JP, Parretti HM, Gokal K, Jolly K, Skrybant M, Biddle SJH, Greaves C, Maddison R, Mutrie N, Ives N, Esliger DW, Sherar L, Edwardson CL, Yates T, Frew E, Tearne S, Daley AJ. Promoting participation in physical activity through Snacktivity: A qualitative mixed methods study. PLoS One. 2023 Sep 11;18(9)
  • Alosaimi N, Sherar LB, Griffiths P, Pearson N. Clustering of diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour and related physical and mental health outcomes: a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2023 Aug 18;23(1):1572.
  • Stamatakis E, Ahmadi MN, Friedenreich CM, Blodgett JM, Koster A, Holtermann A, Atkin A, Rangul V, Sherar LB, Teixeira-Pinto A, Ekelund U, Lee IM, Hamer M. Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence Among Nonexercising Adults: The UK Biobank Accelerometry Study. JAMA Oncol. 2023e231830.
  • Daley AJ, Griffin RA, Moakes CA, Sanders JP, Skrybant M, Ives N, Maylor B, Greenfield SM, Gokal K, Parretti HM, Biddle SJH, Greaves C, Maddison R, Mutrie N, Esliger DW, Sherar L, Edwardson CL, Yates T, Frew E, Tearne S, Jolly K. Snacktivity™ to promote physical activity and reduce future risk of disease in the population: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial and nested qualitative study. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2023 Mar 17;9(1):45.
  • Chalkley AE, Routen AC, Harris JP, Cale LA, Gorely T, Sherar LB. An Evaluation of the Implementation of a UK School-Based Running Program. Children. 2020 Sep 25;7(10):E151.
  • Moore SA, Cumming SP, Balletta G, Ramage K, Eisenmann J, Baxter-Jones ADG, Jackowski S, Sherar LB. Exploring the relationship between adolescent biological maturation, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour: A systematic review and narrative synthesis, Annals of Human Biology, Special supplement, 2020, 47(4): 365-383.
  • Ekelund U, Luan J, Sherar LB, Esliger DW, Griew P, Cooper A; International Children's Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators. Moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents. JAMA. 2012, 15;307(7):704-12.
  • Sherar LB, Griew P, Esliger DW, Cooper AR, Ekelund U, Judge K, Riddoch C. International children's accelerometry database (ICAD): design and methods. BMC Public Health. 2011, 21;11:485.