The Sport, Physical Activity, Health, and Wellbeing (SPAHW) Research Group’s work seeks to understand relationships between lifestyle behaviours like physical activity and sleep, exercise, and sport with the health and wellbeing of children, young people, families, and adults in education, community, sport, and clinical settings.
The group’s research and knowledge exchange activities include a focus on wearable devices and digital apps to assess movement behaviours and functional movement quality, methods development and validation, realist evaluation, policy development, and designing and evaluating theory-led programmes and interventions to enhance health and wellbeing in different communities. We work in partnership with sport, education, community, health (such as NHS Trusts), charity, and industry organisations to generate applied and clinical research evidence that has real-world impact.
