Our new study: School day physical activity profiles and transitions across the school year: a latent analysis in 8-9-year-old children link.springer.com/article/10.1... @isbnpa.bsky.social

Recently, I’ve been looking at some of our child accelerometer data & thought it was timely to highlight the utility of this often under-used resource that can tell us so much about kids’ physical activity. Key messages are in the infographic.

#physicalactivity #childhealth #accelerometer #data

Be part of our fantastic iKids team by visiting ikidsstudy.com and helping us answer crucial questions about young children's mobile device use.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK368/r...

🤝 Wearables don’t always agree, but what if one metric could harmonize data across research and consumer devices?

📰 Details here: doi.org/10.1123/jmpb...

@physactivityed.bsky.social
#WearableTech #PhysicalActivityResearch #DataHarmonization #SensorData #PediatricHealth #DataScience #DigitalHealth

www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-s...

New open access paper

Absolute and relative intensity physical activity of children with healthy and low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness
lnkd.in/dm7Y_J-a

Quantifying both the
absolute & relative intensity of accelerometer-assessed PA outcomes can provide greater insights than either alone!

Authors of a new commentary argue that while digital technologies create opportunities for data-driven learning and interventions, they also raise important challenges around equity, privacy, and health data literacy -- especially for children.

doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2025-0142

New open access publication:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I contributed to two preprints published last week which consider issues around assessing the relative intensity of physical activity in research studies. Links: osf.io/preprints/ps... and doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I've posted a Euraxess advert for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project under Horizon Europe, focused on accelerometer methods for assessing children's physical activity.

I’d be grateful for shares and reposts! 🙏

Link is below 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/354331

New paper from our group expertly led by Dr Richard Tyler & Dr Mhairi MacDonald: Validity and reliability of the physical literacy in children questionnaire (PL-C Quest) for primary school children aged 8 to 11 years. Journal pre-proof:
doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity volume & intensity metrics in England children and adolescents ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Some highlights of my week ahead...2 meetings about NIHR child #physicalactivity grant applications, giving a webinar on accelerometers in PA research, free-living PA validation of machine learning models project meeting, knowledge exchange staff development session... (1/2)

This systematic review concluded that 'healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ clusters remained highly stable over time:

Tracking and changes in the clustering of physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet, and sleep across childhood and adolescence: A systematic review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in school based research in physical activity? Then this exciting opportunity for a part time research assistant role might be for you! 2 days a week for 7 months, starting in March - come and work with us!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I'm doing a thing today in memory of my mum and dad (and for myself) but most importantly raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Link if interested in my story and to contribute: www.justgiving.com/page/stuart-...
🙏
#hyrox

Hey educators, tidyplots.org is great for teaching students data visualization because it is

🕊️ Free and open-source
🚀 Easy, intuitive and fast
💾 Loaded with demo datasets
🏆 Embracing best practices
🌈 Beautiful

#rstats #phd #dataviz #education

Sport England's annual Active Lives Survey for children published today: www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins.... Headlines are that self-reported PA has remained stable overall & across groups. IMO the most interesting stuff is in the linked data tables showing local/regional data.