Find out more about the Deep Dive series Surface skim The Chief Medical Officers’ new Physical Activity Guidelines (2019) 15 reflect what is necessary to achieve the optimal health benefits, but the targets may seem unachievable to those who are very inactive. The guidelines recognise that although m …

Find out more about the Deep Dive series Surface skim Ofcom data shows that older adults use a wide range of digital technologies and usage rates are much higher than is commonly believed. For example, mobile phone use is above 96% for people aged 55 to 64, 92% for people aged 65 to 74 and 81% for …

Surface skim In August 2019 the Singapore government announced plans to provide their 5.6 million population with wearable fitness trackers in a nationwide public health initiative, but can it really be that simple to get people moving more? Activity trackers are very popular, but most don’t offer m …

Surface skim There is some evidence to support some of the concerns that people have about the potentially negative impacts of digital technology, but it is mixed. Cause and effect may work in the opposite way to that which is often assumed, for example, it may be that already-inactive young people …

Background and context Keeping active as we get older is vitally important for health and wellbeing but older adults are the least active part of the population . It’s important to help older adults to understand their physical activity in terms of what they are already doing, and what they can do t …

Image source: Smart Work What's the problem? Only 66% of men and 58% of women in England say they do the recommended amount of physical activity 1 . Even this may be an overestimate when compared to actual activity levels measured using activity trackers 2 . 27% of adults do less than 30 minutes of …

Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure. Nintendo Sam Peter Kirk , Leeds Beckett University The social distancing measures and self-isolation initiated by the coronavirus pandemic has left people looking for new ways to exercise at home. Could active video games (AVGs) such as Pokemon Go and the recent hit …

Photo credit Gabriel Benois/Unsplash Keep calm and go online GAMO Network fellows Marion Lean, Joe Newbold and Paulina Bondaronek were just about to start a GAMO-funded research project when Covid19 arrived, quickly followed by social distancing and lockdown. They had planned to explore behaviour …

The technological revolution has transformed the world, with almost anything possible at the click of a button. But has this automation come at a cost to our health ? Have you ever considered how much of the day you spend sitting down? For many adults in the UK, this simple daily behaviour accounts …

A year ago we launched the GetAMoveOn Fellows’ Programme – a professional development programme for a cohort of 10 PhD students, post-docs and other early career researchers, who each won a place on the 12 month programme following our call for nominations. Our aim Our aim was provide support to the …