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Dr. Andrew Daly-Smith

Senior Manager - Professorial/academic

Area
Faculty of Health Studies
Faculty of Health Studies
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Biography

Andy Daly-Smith is a Professor of physical activity and child health. He leads the Wolfson Centre for Applied Research Healthly Childhood theme. His research focuses on the design, development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions for physical activity and health in children. He is heavily involved in the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research and Born in Bradford as a Research Director on the Sport England-funded Join Us: Move Play programme. Recently, Andy led the co-development of the first UK-based whole-school physical activity framework with 50 regional, national and international stakeholders. The model has been widely adopted across the UK to drive systems change for health and physical activity within schools. In May 2018 he co-delivered a TEDxEducation talk on physically active learning.

Research

Physical Activity 
Schools
Systems change 
Executive Function 
Academic Performance 
Child Heath 

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