Physical Activity Exchange

Project:

Collaborator:

SOKKA Schools project

SOKKA Ltd

Activity Monitoring Compliance project

Developing Well (5-19 years) Start Well Team, Wigan Council

Healthy Workforce project

Ergotron Ltd
UniHealth Ltd

Breast Cancer projects

Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, UHSM

Multiple projects and strategic partnership

Liverpool City Council and Lifestyles Fitness Centres

Blackburn with Darwen pre-school child weight project

Blackburn with Darwen Council (Public Health)

WLCT Active Living programme uptake project

WLCT Active Living

Active Play (FMS): PhD project

Active Play (FMS) aims to assess the fundamental movement skill proficiency of preschool children; evaluate the effectiveness of Active Play in helping to improve preschool children’s fundamental movement skill proficiency; examine the relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity amongst preschool children.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles, PhD Student: Jonathan Foulkes

Activity Monitoring Compliance: PhD project

The aim of this project is to generate original knowledge on how researchers and practitioners can promote compliance to habitual physical activity monitoring using accelerometers in children and young people.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves, PhD Student: Deborah McCann

Blackburn with Darwen pre-school child weight project: Matched-funded PhD

This mixed-method study aims to develop and evaluate a multi-agency approach to promote healthy weight in pre-school children.
Contact for more information: Dr Paula Watson, PhD Student: Daisy Bradbury

Breast cancer projects

In collaboration with the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre at the University Hospital South Manchester, these projects investigate physical activity in breast cancer patients and evaluate the effect of nutrition and physical activity interventions on behaviour and health outcomes.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

Exercise for Health Evaluation

This project draws on psychological theory (self-determination theory) to compare the effectiveness of two different delivery approaches of a GP exercise referral scheme.
Contact for more information: Dr Paula Watson

Healthy workforce projects

Lab and field-based studies are investigating ways to promote health through reduced sitting and increased movement at work. This includes a health screening project in partnership with UniHealth Ltd and collaborative multi-site interventions in partnership with Ergotron Ltd.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

SOKKA Schools Programme: Matched-funded PhD

This aim of this project is to develop and evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the original SOKKA Schools programme to promote child health through creation of a physical activity permissive culture within primary schools. This PhD is matched funded by SOKKA.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves, PhD Student: Matthew Domville

The Natural Health Service Evaluation: Matched-funded PhD project

This project aims to assess the health and wellbeing benefits of interventions in the natural environment. This will inform the future development and delivery of The Mersey Forest’s Natural Health Service.
Contact for more information: Dr Kaye Richards (EHC Faculty) and Dr Zoe Knowles, PhD Student: Clare Austin

WLCT Active Living uptake project

This mixed-method study draws on a socio-ecological framework to explore the reasons for non-uptake to community health initiatives, with the aim of informing future interventions to improve uptake to community health initiatives. This study is funded by WLCT Active Living Team.
Contact for more information: Dr Paula Watson, MPhil student: Sarah Birtwistle

Investigating Non-School Time Physical Activity in Children: PhD Project

The aim of this study is to investigate the physical activity levels of children and families in non-school time.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy, PhD Student: Rob Noonan

Investigating Physical Activity in Youth with Intellectual Disabilities

The aim of this project is to establish the physical activity levels and play behaviours of children and young people with intellectual disabilities. We are also trying to positively influence physical activity and associated behaviours through theoretically driven interventions.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

SportsLinx-SwanLinx-Uniactive International Fitness Study

The aim of this study is to examine fitness and associated variables using large-scale datasets from the UK and Australia. This research project is a collaboration between LJMU, Swansea University and the University of Western Australia.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

Youth Physical Activity Measurement Study UK

The aim is to calibrate the Youth Activity Profile and examine the physical activity levels of children and young people across the UK. This research is a partnership between LJMU, Iowa State University, Edge Hill University and the Youth Sport Trust.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

A-CLASS project

The A-CLASS (Active City of Liverpool, Active Schools and Sportslinx) Project was a multi-dimensional physical activity intervention conducted in primary school children from deprived areas of Liverpool.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

Active Video Gaming projects

This series of projects assessed acute behavioural and physiological responses to active video gaming, and evaluated whether active video games could be used in home and community settings to promote health through reduced sitting and increased movement.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

AFRESH

AFRESH (Activity and Food for Regional Economies Supporting Health) examined physical activity and nutrition together in order to find solutions for healthy lifestyles. AFRESH was a three-year project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

BUPA Cystic Fibrosis project

This research in conjunction with Alder Hey hospital aimed to explore the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of using cutting edge technologies to monitor and report physical activity and sedentary levels of CF patients in free-living environments.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles

CHANGE!

The Children’s Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! project (CHANGE!) was a school based intervention study to promote physical activity and health eating in 10-11 year old children. Significant intervention effects were observed upon body mass index and light intensity physical activity.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started (GOALS)

This project (2003-2013) developed and evaluated a family-based behaviour change programme for overweight children, in collaboration with the University of Salford, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool City Council and Liverpool PCT.
Contact for more information: Dr Paula Watson

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

This Department of Health funded project brought together LJMU and SHOKK Ltd (later Destination Youth Ltd) to collate and generate cutting-edge science to validate and inform the development of company products and services that encourage behaviour change in young people.
Contact for more information: Dr Lee Graves

Liverpool Sporting Playgrounds project

This project investigated the effectiveness and sustainability of a playground markings and physical structures intervention (Zoneparc model) on boy’s and girls’ physical activity levels and play behaviour.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles

Natural Health Service

This research examined the effectiveness of the Natural Health Service in improving health and wellbeing; and assessed programme delivery to inform future intervention.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles

SportsLinx

This health and fitness screening project was a collaborative partnership between LJMU and Liverpool City Council. Through field-based fitness testing and surveys, SportsLinx built up a substantial data archive, including measures of body size, fitness, diet and health on >60,000 participants. Research into the health, fitness, diet and lifestyles of children is ongoing.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

Active Play (preschool)

The aims of the Active Play research programme were to evaluate the effectiveness of a school based active play intervention at decreasing sedentary time and increasing physical activity in preschool children and to investigate patterns of physical activity in preschool children.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles

Fathers Engagement project

This 12-month intervention and evaluation project explored the impact of a six session physical activity intervention on fathers’/male carers’ engagement with their preschool children and evaluated the programme content/delivery and perceived changes in fathers’/male carers' engagement and associated behaviours with their children.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles

Reach Y6 Study

This study was conducted in partnership with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Ulster, and collaborators from Swansea University. The research investigated the relationships between physical activity, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk in 9-11yr old schoolchildren.
Contact for more information: Dr Lynne Boddy

Sefton Active Play project

The Sefton Active Play Project used quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate three main components: a social marketing campaign, Active Play training for early years practitioners and an active play charter.
Contact for more information: Dr Zoe Knowles