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29 May 2024

Stephanie Beecroft: A qualitative exploration of local authority approaches to address obesity in Yorkshire and Humber

Stephanie's doctoral research is focused on how local authorities in South Yorkshire apply different approaches to obesity. She is especially interested in how weight-neutral and whole system approaches can to used to measure alternative measures of success such as quality of life and the reduction of health inequalities.

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Meet our Colocated PhD Students
22 December 2023

Delivering exercise referral training to increase physical activity levels in Mauritius

Our Training and Education co-lead, Emily Newton, recently visited the University of Technology in Mauritius to deliver a bespoke training course which helped students to develop the skills needed to increase physical activity levels to help prevent and manage non-communicable disease in inactive patients

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Training and Education
21 December 2023

Olusogo Popoola: Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Ethics pertaining to Smart Home Wellbeing Monitoring

Olusogo’s doctoral research is focused on the development of an authorisation framework based on the concept of privacy by design (default). It has a specific focus on secure/authorised data acquisition, storage, monitoring, and the benefits of data transparency to the data owner, publisher, and consumer in a smart home setting.

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Meet our Colocated PhD Students
16 November 2023

How accelerator programmes can help angel investors to identify opportunities

Angel investors are a key source of funding in the health and wellbeing sector, but in this crowded and noisy landscape it can be difficult for angel investors to differentiate between high potential businesses and ‘just another idea’ as they lack the research resources of large venture capital firms.

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