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Stuart Fairclough

@physactivityed.bsky.social
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Professor of Physical Activity, Health, & Wellbeing at Edge Hill University. Head & neck cancer thriver who's usually found in the gym, out running, watching sport, eating nice food, or working. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/…

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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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
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School day physical activity profiles and transitions across the school year: a latent analysis in 8–9 year-old children - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Background School day physical activity (PA) is important for children’s health and development, yet longitudinal evidence on within-year trajectory patterns is limited. Traditional approaches to stud...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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
Infographic comparing seemingly identical accelerometer data between 2 girls to highlight how different metrics can add nuance to interpreting physical activity data.
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Liane Beretta de Azevedo @lianeazevedo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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...
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Research Assistant at Sheffield Hallam University
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour @jmpbjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🤝 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
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Trajectories of children’s physical activity volume and intensity across the school year: the Ready, Set, Move project - Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors | Prof. Stuart Fairclough
📢 New paper alert! Trajectories of children’s physical activity volume and intensity across the school year: the Ready, Set, Move project https://lnkd.in/eJ2wkEvw We followed 249 children (age 8–9) a...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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!
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Journal of Physical Activity & Health @jpahjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New open access publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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
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Improving the utility and interpretation of children’s physical activity assessed by accelerometers
Edge Hill University is seeking to host exceptional research fellows funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme to develop accelerometer methods for the assessment of physica...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity volume & intensity metrics in England children and adolescents ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity metrics in England children and adolescents - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Background Over the last decade use of raw acceleration metrics to assess physical activity has increased. Metrics such as Euclidean Norm Minus One (ENMO), and Mean Amplitude Deviation (MAD) can be us...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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)
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Nikos Ntoumanis @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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/...
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Josie Booth @drjosienbooth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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Research Assistant
We present an exciting opportunity to work as a Research Assistant on a project titled “Whole school approaches for maximising movement and learning: co-development of a teacher toolkit”. This is an i...
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 06/12/2024
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
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Stuart Fairclough @physactivityed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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.
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Children’s activity levels remain stable but significant and sustained action required | Sport England
Sport England release their latest Active Lives Children and Young People survey results for Academic Year 2023-24.
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