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If you're looking for an expert who knows the facts about the benefits and challenges of getting people to be more physically active, and how technology can help people to sit less and move more, you're in the right place. Use the search box to find someone who knows about the particular topic you're interested in, or you can select tags to filter results and find people who can help you. They're all experts in their field, media trained, great communicators, and they're ready and willing to share their specialist knowledge and expertise with journalists, media researchers and other professionals in need of an informed opinion from someone who really knows what they're talking about.

Angela Carlin

Angela Carlin

Lecturer in Exercise and Health
I am passionate about how we can improve the health and wellbeing of people through physical activity. My main research interests include interventions to get young people more active, and how we can use technology to help us do this.
Affiliation
Ulster University
Phone
+442871675037
Available for:
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • TV interviews
Tags:
  • physical activity,
  • technology,
  • research,
  • health,
  • behaviour change,
  • nutrition,
  • families
Anjana Wijekoon

Anjana Wijekoon

PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence
Personalising activity recognition with wearable sensor data to improve user experience
Affiliation
Robert Gordon University
Phone
01224 262577
Available for:
  • Consultancy,
  • Special advisor
Tags:
  • AI,
  • deep learning,
  • exercises,
  • physical activity,
  • machine learning,
  • personalisation
Cindy Forbes

Cindy Forbes

Career Development Research Fellow
Improving health for people living with and beyond cancer - wherever and whenever they are.
Affiliation
University of Hull
Phone
01482 463741
Available for:
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Consultancy,
  • Special advisor
Tags:
  • physical activity,
  • wellbeing,
  • cancer,
  • website,
  • wearables
Daniel Harrison

Daniel Harrison

Senior Research Associate
Human-Computer Interaction researcher interested in empowering people through digital health technologies
Affiliation
Northumbria University/ UCL
Available for:
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Special advisor,
  • Consultancy,
  • TV interviews
Tags:
  • HCI,
  • Physical Activity,
  • Activity Tracking,
  • Personal Informatics,
  • Quantified Self,
  • health,
  • Wellbeing,
  • Wellness
Joe Newbold

Joe Newbold

Research Fellow
A Research fellow with the GetaMoveOn network in HCI whose work focuses on use sound and music to support physical activity and well-being.
Affiliation
UCL
Phone
02031987052
Available for:
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Expert witness,
  • Special advisor,
  • Consultancy
Tags:
  • physical activity,
  • exercise,
  • wellbeing,
  • workplace,
  • music,
  • sound,
  • HCI,
  • technology,
  • sitting
Lyndsay Alexander

Lyndsay Alexander

Lecturer
Main research interest is living well throughout the lifespan with an emphasis on physical activity.
Affiliation
Robert Gordon University
Phone
+44 (0)1224 263264
Available for:
  • Consultancy,
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Special advisor
Tags:
  • physical activity,
  • design,
  • research,
  • experience,
  • person centred,
  • exercise,
  • health technology,
  • applied health research,
  • physiotherapy,
  • knee replacement,
  • hip replacement,
  • mixed methods research,
  • evidence synthesis,
  • systematic review,
  • back pain,
  • Apps
Marion Lean

Marion Lean

Design Researcher
Design research and data experience
Affiliation
Royal College of Art
Available for:
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Special advisor,
  • Consultancy
Tags:
  • design,
  • designresearch,
  • research,
  • technology,
  • experience,
  • materials,
  • humancentered,
  • textiles,
  • london,
  • art,
  • data,
  • dataexperience,
  • workshops
Max Western

Max Western

Lecturer in Behavioural Science
Expert in physical activity behaviour for improving health and wellbeing and the role of wearables and other digital technologies in behaviour change.
Affiliation
Univeristy of Bath
Phone
+44 (0) 1225 383732
Available for:
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Consultancy,
  • Special advisor,
  • Provide media quotes
Tags:
  • Physical Activity,
  • health technology,
  • behaviour change,
  • mixed methods research,
  • person centred,
  • wearables,
  • exercise,
  • Apps,
  • research,
  • Ageing,
  • applied health research
Paulina Bondaronek

Paulina Bondaronek

PhD candidate in digital health, Behaviourlal Insights Advisor
Researcher in digital health and behaviour change
Affiliation
University College London
Phone
07742966769
Available for:
  • TV interviews,
  • Radio/podcast interviews,
  • Provide media quotes,
  • Expert witness,
  • Special advisor,
  • Consultancy
Tags:
  • physical activity,
  • research,
  • experience,
  • behaviour change,
  • designresearch,
  • wellbeing,
  • Apps,
  • exercise,
  • health technology