Active living
Who are we?
The Active Living Hub is a hub of the Ageing Well research group within the Research Centre for Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. The hub is open to all with an interest in active living research and practice. Current membership includes representation from staff and students across the University.
Hub members' current activities centre around exploring activity-related behaviour. This is achieved by examining the lived experience and determinants of behaviour, devising and testing ways to measure and record physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and developing and testing interventions to enhance active living.
What is our purpose?
The aim of the Active Living Hub is to provide a space for collaboration and support but also to gather and showcase the wealth of research and experience in this area. We aim to provide opportunities for researchers to share their work and develop links and collaborations across the University and externally.
Developing links and collaboration is achieved through our online community space and regular meetings. The hub also hosts seminars with internal and external speakers.
If you would like to find out more or get involved, please contact Dr Chris Seenan.
Projects
PrEPAID
Aims to determine the feasibility of electrical stimulation used in a patient-centred education programme to improve walking distances in patients with intermittent claudication. Co-investigator Dr Chris Seenan. (Funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO); £244,085)
OPTIMA
Systematic review and integrated report on the quantitative and qualitative evidence base for behaviOur change interventions to promote Physical acTivity in people with InterMittent clAudication (OPTIMA).
Health CASCADE
Global health challenges confront us all as individuals and communities – from obesity to pandemics, dementia to cancer – magnified by climate change and increasing inequality in health care provision. Co-creation is an exciting new approach for global public health. Health CASCADE is a multidisciplinary expert network with young researchers from around the world, funded to deliver together the rigorous scientific methodology to secure co-creation as an effective tool to fight public health problems.
Hub members
- Dr Chris Seenan
- Dr Ukachukwu Abaraogu
- Dr Philippa Dall
- Professor Sebastien Chastin
- Danny Rafferty
- Professor Dawn Skelton
- Dr Elaine Duncan
- Dr Ben Stansfield
- Dr Joanna McParland
- Professor Frederike van Wijck
- Dr Bryan McCann
- Professor Emmanuelle Tulle
- Dr Shiv Shanmugam
- Sean Paul Carroll
- Ebuka Anieto
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