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Interdisciplinary PhD studentship!

I’m delighted to announce that I have a PhD studentship that I’m seeking a student for! It’s an interdisciplinary PhD at the intersection of health psychology, conservation biology, and museum studies with a focus on…

parkrun paper is out!

Our long awaited paper on action research and increasing access to volunteer-led physical activity that is parkrun is out! This great collaboration with stakeholders and academic and non-academics was very important.…

Summer intern, Grace Ong, presented her project!

I had the privilege of supervising my summer intern’s project last summer. Grace Ong is such a talented medical student and worked on a project collecting data and also a review. She was interested in medical student…

Dr Rachel Nutt graduated!!!

I couldn’t be happier for Rachel! And well done for choosing a title that got laughters! Super proud to receive my doctorate (and a few laughs at the title!) today from @univofstandrews @StAndMedicine – I know…

Niall Anderson’s second paper is out!

So pleased to share this paper with you! I had the pleasure of supervising Niall’s stage 2 research project and here’s the publication! It’s open access. Anderson, N., Ozakinci, G. “It All Needs To Be A Full Jigsaw,…

Briefing on Physical Activity Participation by Adults

So, I wrote this briefing paper for Scottish School of Primary Care on physical activity participation by adults. I hope that GP clusters will find it useful to see how behavioural health consultants can assist and how…

New DISPLAY study paper is out!

Delighted that this latest paper from the DISPLAY study is out. Led by Prof Jamie Pearce of University of Edinburgh, we looked at how the introduction of point-of-sale legislation affected the presence and visibility…