{"id":19090,"date":"2019-05-30T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/news\/research-institute-presents-at-major-international-academic-conference\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:00:45","slug":"research-institute-presents-at-major-international-academic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/cy\/news\/research-institute-presents-at-major-international-academic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Institute presents at major international academic conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>ukactive Senior Researcher Matthew Wade writes from the ACSM Annual Meeting in Orlando<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As our sectors prepares for ukactive\u2019s flagship event, Active Uprising, on the 6<sup>y<\/sup> June, the ukactive Research Institute has ventured across the pond to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American College of Sports Medicine<\/a> (ACSM) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsmannualmeeting.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Annual Meeting and World Congress<\/a>. This is the largest academic conference for exercise science with 10,000 academics from around the word expected across the five days.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time I have attended the ACSM Annual Meeting and had the privilege to present and discuss the research we have undertaken at ukactive. One of the great things about our work at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/cy\/research-institute\/\">Yst\u00e2d Ymchwil<\/a> is our position between the academic world and physical activity in practice, with the ability to work with an array of excellent partners from the ukactive membership.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (Friday 31<sup>st<\/sup> May) I will be presenting findings from the PhD research project that I have been undertaking at St Mary\u2019s University over the past two and a half years. This research, using data from ukactive\u2019s delivery of Let\u2019s Get Moving Essex, compares the health improvements achieved through different pathways to this community-based motivational interviewing physical activity programme. Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of this intervention overall and the role of different pathways, advancing our understanding of how we can promote physical activity and mental wellbeing improvements through primary care.<\/p>\n<p>Our presentations started yesterday (29<sup>y<\/sup> May) with the ukactive Research Institute\u2019s Principle Investigator, Dr James Steele, delivering a session entitled \u2018Understanding the Role of Effort, and the Perception of Effort, in Physical Activity and Exercise\u2019. This was followed by Coventry University based ukactive PhD student Nikita Rowley who presented further data from the National Referral Database with a poster presentation entitled \u2018Examining the effects of Exercise Referral Schemes on Changes in Physical Activity Levels\u2019. Our week of will be rounded off tomorrow with another Coventry University based ukactive PhD student, Nadja Willinger, presenting her research entitled \u2018Recommendations for the Implementation of Physical Activity Intervention Evaluations in Leisure Centres\u2019, and James delivering a second presentation, \u2018Training for Strength vs. Training for Sport Performance\u2019. These varied presentations show the breadth of the work we are undertaking, but is only a selection of the great work undertaken across the ukactive Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>This week it has been fantastic to see some excellent global research that supports and provides evidence for ukactive\u2019s core pillars: turning generation inactive into generation active, transforming working lives, and reimagining ageing. We will take the knowledge, learnings, and connections from this week through to advance across all of these pillars and more. The ukactive Research Institute is always seeking to engage with our members through research studies and PhD students to continually advance our knowledge and evidence base for physical activity interventions.<\/p>\n<p>The ukactive Research Institute has presented various projects at the ACSM Annual Meeting over the years \u2013 it is where we first released our landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/cy\/research\/ukactive-and-premier-sport-research-spotlights-summer-holiday-health-inequalities\/\">astudio<\/a> on children\u2019s fitness levels over the summer holidays, which was really the starting point for our children\u2019s activity agenda. This remains a key date in our diary and provides us with a great opportunity to ensure our sector is represented on the academic stage, and offers us the fresh insights that will shape physical activity research for the years to come.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ukactive Senior Researcher Matthew Wade writes from the ACSM Annual Meeting in Orlando As our sectors prepares for ukactive\u2019s flagship event, Active Uprising, on the 6th June, the ukactive Research 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