Our research is designed to make a positive impact on people’s lives. All our research is led in a way to address inequalities, promote social justice, and ensure better health and wellbeing through sport, exercise and physical activity.

We challenge health inequalities in childhood obesity and increase physical activity through policy and practice. We fight to establish the Sustainable Development Goals as a new focus for global and national sport policies and work to shape UK Government policy on women football fans, addressing  inequalities. We were also part of creating the first UK Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines for disabled adults; designing and promoting more effective and inclusive physical activity referral systems, and targeting health inequalities. We challenge sedentary behaviour messages for being ableist, and create new messages that are inclusive and are now adopted by National Public Health agencies. We provide an evidence-base for strategies to advance athlete health for sports performance and wellbeing, contributing to the UK Parliamentary inquiry into concussion in sport and engaging with professional and community sport, industry and global networks.