Active living and sports

Our vehicle of action, Active Living (reduced inactivity), is one of the nine key tenets of the World Health Organisation’s mission to prevent and better manage non-communicable diseases.  
 
At the heart of our work is respecting that it is beholden to changing or improving people’s health behaviours through helping them adapt to the psycho-social and physical environments in which they live.  
 
Being active socially, psychologically and physically is a highly cost-effective antidote to the many ills (socio-economic, psychological and physical) that can result from a modern industrialised, rapidly advancing technological and ageing society.  
 
Our research at all levels aims to augment the value of existing evidence and to promote new evidence that will enhance people’s well-being through a more active lifestyle.  

Research areas 

• The adaptation and application of physical activity monitoring devices for clinic, community and home-based settings
• Pre-rehabilitation and longer-term recovery of people with cancer
• Sedentary behaviour in the workplace
• Community and primary care professionals’ education in physical activity promotion
• Education and advocacy of cardiac rehabilitation globally
• Exercise cardiology of older sports and exercise participants
• Active transport through walking and motorised cycling
• Paediatric health and well-being linked with cystic fibrosis, neuromuscular diseases and metabolic disorders that influence/interact with cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunction and quality of life.