Department staff

Academic staff and their research interests

Sue Baic Senior Lecturer & MSc Programme Director
Nutrition and dietetics; behaviour change; sports nutrition.
Dr Ashley Cooper Reader in Exercise and Health Science
Exercise for prevention and management of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and obesity; measurement of physical activity; children's health and fitness; active travel.
Mark Davis Lecturer
Measurement of physical activity, exercise and hypertension.
Professor Ken Fox Professor of Exercise and Health Science & Director of Research
Exercise and mental health; self-esteem psychology; exercise and the elderly; exercise, body composition and obesity; physical education and health.
Dr Anne Haase Senior Lecturer
Physical activity and mental health. Body image, self-presentation, physical activity and eating behaviours.
Dr Russ Jago Senior Lecturer & NIHR Career Development Fellow
Lifestyle interventions in children, measurement of physical activity and the built environment, determinants of physical activity and eating behaviour.
Dr Angie Page Senior Lecturer
Childhood obesity; exercise and self-esteem; measurement of physical activity; clustering of health behaviours, developmental aspects of eating and exercise behaviour.
Professor Janice Thompson Professor of Public Health Nutrition & Head of Department
Nutrition, physical activity and public health. Lifestyle behaviour and diabetes. Health in socially disadvantaged groups.

Pippa Griew
Research Assistant (PEACH project)
Kyle Macdonald-Wallis
Research Assistant: Data Analyst (Peach Project and the Bristol 3 P's Project)
Jade McNeill
Fieldworker (Bristol Girls Dance Project)
Simon Sebire
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Helen Thorp
Physical Activity Facilitator (Project TREAD)