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.
Research staff
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Georgina Bentley
Physical Activity Facilitator (Project TREAD) -
Jo Coulson
Research Associate (Project OPAL) -
Laura Davis
Research Assistant (Bristol Girls Dance Project)
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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)
Honorary staff
- Dr Kitrina Douglas
Visiting Fellow, Exercise, health and sport.
Administrative staff
- Jodie Hooper
Research Secretary - Margaret Thompson
Postgraduate Co-ordinator