When stories about childhood obesity appear in the news, the public response can often be just as revealing as the story itself. In this edition of AWRC Voices, Claire Woodward - Project Manager for ENHANCE discusses research undertaken to map how childhood obesity stigma plays out online.
The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre was proud to sponsor a satellite public session at the UK Congress on Obesity. Hosted at Sheffield Town Hall by the city's Director of Public Health, Greg Fell, alongside Professor Jim McManus, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health Wales, the session focused on a pervasive yet often underacknowledged form of bias in public health: obesity stigma.
Today is the inaugural World Prehabilitation Day. The event aims to raise global awareness of a growing area of practice and research that is helping people to prepare for health events such as treatment and surgery, improving their recovery and long-term health outcomes. Learn about the AWRC's growing portfolio of prehabilitation research and innovation.
AWRC theme lead Dr Cath Homer of the School of Sport and Physical Activity has delivered a webinar for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) PPI in Action series: Integrating the Lived Experience of Children and Young People in Weight Management.
Mahmud Nawaz, Chair of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust visited the AWRC on Wednesday to meet the team delivering Active Together, our flagship cancer prehabilitation programme.
The baton was carried from the city centre to the AWRC by Sheffield boxer star Johnny Nelson MBE and three-time Grammy award winner Aaron Casserly Stewart, who passed it onto representatives of our Active Together programmes for the next leg.
AWRC-based National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) partnership will deliver a £1.7m programme of work to strengthen community-led activity, embed physical activity within health and care pathways, and build the workforce, leadership and infrastructure needed to sustain change.
JT Rehab participated in the first Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme and worked with Sheffield Hallam University researchers based at the AWRC to develop the device, which helps patients build up leg muscles from their bed.
