Our Projects
The projects undertaken by the Physical Activity, Exercise, and Health Group predominantly involve children and young people, though we also work with adult and older adult populations. This work is conducted in schools and other community contexts, and well as in clinical and laboratory settings. We collaborate with local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, NHS Trusts, other academic institutions, and commercial bodies. At any one time various members of the group bring their expertise to various projects, which are disseminated through academic outputs, reports, workshops, and seminars. An overview of current and past projects can be found below and more information on each project can be found by follwing each link.
| Current Research |
Past Research |
|---|
| Name | Sumary |
|---|---|
 |
AFRESH is an EU FP7 funded project which aims to develop innovative solutions for products and services, policy actions and research activities within the fields of physical activity and nutrition. |
 |
The Active Gaming projects investigate whether active video games can promote physical activity, reduce sedentary behavior and improve health outcomes in people of all ages. |
| C-CLEAR | A joint initiative between RISES exercise scientists and renowned cancer specialists from Christie and South Manchester hospitals, C-CLEAR has published systematic reviews and meta-analyses, providing valuable information about lifestyle and cancer risk. |
 |
The Fathers' Engagement project aims to design, implement and evaluate a physically active play based intervention to improve fathers’/male carers’ engagement with their pre- school children. |
 |
GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started!) is a family-based behaviour change intervention for children who are overweight. |
 |
The Premier League Health project uses the powerful brand of Everton Football Club as a vehicle to motivate and inspire hard-to-reach males in Liverpool to make positive, healthy lifestyle choices. |
 |
REACH investigates the relationships between physical activity, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk in nine to eleven year old schoolchildren. |
 |
SmokeFree Sports is a novel intervention which aims to use physical activity and sport to promote smoke free messages in children and young people. |
 |
SportsLinx is one of the largest health and fitness studies in Europe, and annually assesses fitness, food intake and lifestyle behaviours in over 3,000 nine to eleven year old children. |
 |
Start4Life aims to create a ‘movement’ to promote greater physical activity through Active Play in the early years through childcare environments for children aged birth to five years across Sefton. |
| Name | Sumary |
|---|---|
 |
The A-CLASS Project was a multi-dimensional physical activity intervention conducted in primary school children from deprived areas of Liverpool. |
| Active Play | Active Play aimed to introduce physically active play activities to foundation stage children (aged 3-5 years), their school and their parents in order to promote an active lifestyle. |
 |
A multi-dimensional school-based curriculum intervention to promote physical activity and healthy eating. |
| Childhood Obesity in BME Groups | This project explored ethnic differences in parental perceptions surrounding childhood obesity and related behaviours, with a view to improving the cultural relevance of family-based childhood obesity treatment in the UK. |
 |
Liveability offers physical activity programmes to reduce social isolation and improve quality of life in the ageing population of Liverpool. |
 |
The Everton Active Family Centre promotes ‘real’ health and behavioural change to improve the quality of life and the wellbeing of the people of Liverpool within the grounds of a Premier League Football Club. |
 |
The Liverpool Active City initiative was set out in 2005 to bring together sport and physical activity providers in the city to raise awareness of the opportunities for Liverpool people to participate in physical activity. |
| Exergaming for Stroke Rehabilitation | The Exergaming for Stroke Rehabilitation project was a novel intervention that aimed to use exergaming technology to promote an active lifestyle in stroke survivors. |
| Forest Schools Project | An exploration of the activity of children and families in natural environments, facilitated by their child’s experiences in Forest Schools. |
| Liverpool Sporting Playgrounds Project | The aim of this project was to investigate the long-term effects and sustainability of a playground markings and physical structures intervention on children’s school playtime physical activity levels and play behaviour. |
| Nintendo After-School Club Pilot Intervention | An after-schools club intervention combining exergaming and multi-skills activities aimed at Year 7 children at greatest risk of poor health. |
| Wigan PEPASS Physical Activity Project | An observational assessment of physical activity and health outcomes in Year 6 children. |
