Our Research
We're helping to advance health and wellbeing knowledge through the findings of our work. Our current research is free for anyone to download and view.
Tackling the growing challenge of long-term health conditions
We’ve partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) to develop an innovative community rehabilitation model that uses movement as a tool to improve health and wellbeing. By championing the role fitness professionals play in delivering clinically designed models of care, we aim to transform the lives of people living with long-term health conditions. This partnership combines our expertise in fitness and healthcare with MMU’s leading research capabilities, to support the Government’s focus of shifting care from hospitals to community settings.This white paper aims to drive meaningful policy change and help to build a healthier nation.
More than words
Our report explores how the illness-led language used around mental health can be a barrier to people thinking about the lifestyle factors that play a role in their mental health and to them taking active steps to enhance their mental wellbeing. Summarising discussions held by a panel of mental health experts around the way society thinks about and discusses mental health, the report provides opportunities to help to drive the de-medicalisation of everyday mental health and accelerate the much needed change in language, so that during these challenging times, more people of all ages can be encouraged to seek help sooner.
The effects of remote working on stress, wellbeing and productivity
Our white paper discusses the necessary conditions for productive remote working and creating strong colleague relationships in this dynamic, as well as the potential for disabled people to gain access to employment through flexible working. It makes recommendations as to how employers should communicate their remote working provision, support their employees and extend their duty of care to their remote working employees
Improving wellbeing in schools
Our report, from a two-year pilot in Wood Green Secondary School, looks at the value of a Head of Wellbeing role in schools and how it can make a very real difference to the wellbeing of staff and young people. With growing concern for the mental health and wellbeing of staff and students, the Head of Wellbeing assessed, designed and implemented a wide-ranging, flexible programme of initiatives and activities to address wellbeing priorities.
A healthier workplace
Our white paper, commissioned by Sport England, collates and assesses the latest evidence on the impact of interventions in the workplace to get employees more active. It provides an evaluation of the interventions that UK employers might wish to consider when looking to support their employees in leading healthier, more active working lives.
Head of wellbeing: An essential role?
We joined forces with health think tank 2020health to call for the introduction of a Head of Wellbeing role across secondary schools to help combat poor physical and mental health and wellbeing - both in children and their teachers.
In-depth research, published on 7 January 2015 highlighted areas of concern and unmet need - including low levels of exercise, high levels of obesity and poor emotional wellbeing – and how these could be vastly improved with dedicated, coordinated support in the school setting.
Peer-reviewed journals and articles
- Patient-rated satisfaction and improvement following hip and knee replacements: Development of prediction models.
- A scalable 12-week exercise and education programme reduces symptoms and improves function and wellbeing in people with hip and knee osteoarthritis.
- Improved clinical outcomes in response to a 12-week blended digital and community-based long-COVID-19 rehabilitation programme.
2021
- Embedding supervised exercise training for men on androgen deprivation therapy into standard prostate cancer care: a feasibility and acceptability study (the STAMINA trial).
- Towards implementing exercise into the prostate cancer care pathway: development of a theory and evidence-based intervention to train community-based exercise professionals to support change in patient exercise behaviour (The STAMINA trial).
- SIRVD-DL: A COVID-19 deep learning prediction model based on time-dependent SIRVD.
- Scalable modEls of Community rehAbilitation for Individuals Recovering From COVID:19 reLated illnEss: A Longitudinal Service Evaluation Protocol—“SeaCole Cohort Evaluation”.
2019