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31 July 2026

ENHANCE team delivers NIHR webinar on integrating the voice of children and young people in weight management research

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.

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Healthy and Active 100 Living Well with a Health Condition Training and Education
20 July 2023

Meet our Doncaster Embedded Researchers: Lorna Dowrick

Lorna Dowrick recently joined the AWRC team as an embedded researcher on the NIHR-funded Doncaster Health Determinants Research collaboration. The project aims to develop research skills, processes and capacity within Doncaster Council to ensure policy decisions relating to health inequalities are informed, fair and evidence-based.

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Healthy and Active 100 Meet the Team
18 July 2023

Participants Wanted: Repeated Sit to Stand Test as a Measure of Fitness

We are recruiting to an AWRC project to examine the repeated sit to stand test as a measure of fitness. We need volunteers aged 55-80 who can walk 100 metres or more. Participation will require one visit to the AWRC which will take approximately 90 mins. We will reimburse travel costs and offer a £10 retail voucher as a thank you.

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3 July 2023

Meet our Doncaster Embedded Researchers: Richard Gettings

July sees the arrival of two new researchers to the AWRC. Richard Gettings and Lorna Dowrick are working as embedded researchers on the NIHR-funded Doncaster Health Determinants of Research collaboration, which aims to develop research skills, processes and capacity within Doncaster Council to ensure policy decisions relating to health inequalities are informed, fair and evidence-based. Today, we will meet Richard and hear a little about his background and what he brings to the collaboration.

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Healthy and Active 100 Meet the Team
30 June 2023

Sally Mastwyk: Improving the Recognition and Management of Metabolic Syndrome in Primary Care Physiotherapy Practice

Sally’s PhD explores a condition called metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors that in combination significantly raise the risk of chronic disease. Physiotherapists are well positioned to identify and manage this condition as it can be reduced or even reversed with lifestyle modification like physical activity.

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Meet our Colocated PhD Students
14 June 2023

Simulated Research Placements: Empowering Students to Embed Physical Activity in Their Practice

Throughout May, the AWRC’s Training and Education team inspired the next generation of nurses by delivering a simulated placement opportunity to final-year students. This allowed the team to work with a large cohort of over 500 students from mental health, adult, and children’s nursing as they near the end of their studies.

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24 May 2023

Seminar: Developing Exercise Interventions to Optimise Neurological Rehabilitation

Hosted by the AWRC’s neurological rehabilitation research theme, this seminar explored technological solutions to the challenges surrounding exercise and physical activity for people living with a neurological impairment, including examples from co-design and clinical implementation studies.

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AWRC Seminar Series Neurological Rehabilitation