Dr Robert Walker
BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
PASSPORT: A novel Physical Activity School-Specific PORTfolio intervention evaluated via a stepped wedge design to increase children’s physical activity at a population level
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2023 to 29/02/2028
Publications
Recent publications
20/06/2025Designing context-specific physical activity interventions for English primary schools: key learning from a four-month rapid ethnography
BMC Public Health
Designing stepped wedge trials to evaluate physical activity interventions in schools
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
The complexity of promoting physical activity in English state primary schools: An in-depth qualitative analysis of the role of social context
BMC Public Health
“We just have to work with what we’ve got”
BMC Public Health
Biomimetic Silk Fibre Assembly: Mimicking Nature's Pultrusion Process
Related people
Professor Russ Jago
Professor of Physical Activity & Public Health
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Frank De Vocht
Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Ruth Salway
Lecturer in Public Health Improvement
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Lydia Collison
Lecturer in Social and Public Policy
School for Policy Studies
Dr Danielle House
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)