Stuart Fairclough

Trajectories of children’s physical activity volume and intensity across the school year: the Ready, Set, Move project - Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors | Prof. Stuart Fairclough 📢 New paper alert! Trajectories of children’s physical activity volume and intensity across the school year: the Ready, Set, Move project https://lnkd.in/eJ2wkEvw We followed 249 children (age 8–9) a...

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New open access paper

Absolute and relative intensity physical activity of children with healthy and low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness
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Quantifying both the
absolute & relative intensity of accelerometer-assessed PA outcomes can provide greater insights than either alone!

Authors of a new commentary argue that while digital technologies create opportunities for data-driven learning and interventions, they also raise important challenges around equity, privacy, and health data literacy -- especially for children.

doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2025-0142

New open access publication:
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I contributed to two preprints published last week which consider issues around assessing the relative intensity of physical activity in research studies. Links: osf.io/preprints/ps... and doi.org/10.1101/2025...

IJBNPA, the official journal of @isbnpa.bsky.social, is looking to increase capacity in a few key areas to maintain high quality, timely handling, and decision-making for all manuscripts. Complement our team with appropriate expertise in physical activity, behavioral nutrition, and related areas.

Improving the utility and interpretation of children’s physical activity assessed by accelerometers Edge Hill University is seeking to host exceptional research fellows funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme to develop accelerometer methods for the assessment of physica...

I've posted a Euraxess advert for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project under Horizon Europe, focused on accelerometer methods for assessing children's physical activity.

I’d be grateful for shares and reposts! 🙏

Link is below 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/354331

Nice radar plots👍

@lisabarnettphd.bsky.social

Our study provides evidence for the validity & reliability of the PL-C Quest among boys and girls in UK primary schools. PL-C Quest can be used by practitioners & researchers alike to assess children’s perceived physical literacy to provide measurable impact on practice, programmes, and policy.

We used the original PL-C Quest with over 600 children in England. The PL-C Quest items loaded on overall physical literacy as well as each of the physical, social, psychological, & cognitive physical literacy domains.

New paper from our group expertly led by Dr Richard Tyler & Dr Mhairi MacDonald: Validity and reliability of the physical literacy in children questionnaire (PL-C Quest) for primary school children aged 8 to 11 years. Journal pre-proof:
doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

Great read and so true.

Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity metrics in England children and adolescents - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Background Over the last decade use of raw acceleration metrics to assess physical activity has increased. Metrics such as Euclidean Norm Minus One (ENMO), and Mean Amplitude Deviation (MAD) can be us...

Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity volume & intensity metrics in England children and adolescents ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

(2/2)... hosting invited webinar speaker on PA & mental health, meeting with deliverers & Public Health on PA strategy in my local area. Give me a Follow if any of these topics are interests of yours too!

Some highlights of my week ahead...2 meetings about NIHR child #physicalactivity grant applications, giving a webinar on accelerometers in PA research, free-living PA validation of machine learning models project meeting, knowledge exchange staff development session... (1/2)

This systematic review concluded that 'healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ clusters remained highly stable over time:

Tracking and changes in the clustering of physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet, and sleep across childhood and adolescence: A systematic review
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Interested in school based research in physical activity? Then this exciting opportunity for a part time research assistant role might be for you! 2 days a week for 7 months, starting in March - come and work with us!
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I'm doing a thing today in memory of my mum and dad (and for myself) but most importantly raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Link if interested in my story and to contribute: www.justgiving.com/page/stuart-...
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#hyrox

Awesome to be alongside you Loz!

Hey educators, tidyplots.org is great for teaching students data visualization because it is

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Children’s activity levels remain stable but significant and sustained action required | Sport England Sport England release their latest Active Lives Children and Young People survey results for Academic Year 2023-24.

Sport England's annual Active Lives Survey for children published today: www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins.... Headlines are that self-reported PA has remained stable overall & across groups. IMO the most interesting stuff is in the linked data tables showing local/regional data.

Thanks Ben, looking forward to some overdue positive and constructive social media interactions!

Thanks Ben, please do add me too!