Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre

If you would like to know more about any of our research please do not hesitate to contact one of us. We are keen to help and to introduce you to the fascinating areas in which we conduct our research, teaching and professional activity

For publications, research interests and projects of individual staff members, click on their names below.

Director Associate Professor Craig Williams BEd MSc PhD
Co-Director Professor Neil Armstrong BEd, MSc, PhD, DSc
Associate Director Dr Richard Winsley BA(Ed) PhD
Professors Professor Brian Kirby FRCP OBE
Professor Thomas Rowland MD
Lecturers Dr Alan Barker BSc MSc PhD
Visiting Fellows Dr Sebastien Ratel
Dr Kerstin Stoedefalke BS MS PhD
Visiting Academic Thomas Radtke
Dr Andrew Middlebrooke BSc PhD
Placement Students Adam Woodward (from September 2012)
Abbi Irvine (from June 2013)
Technicians David Childs BSc
Research Scholars Bert Bond
Samantha Parnell
Zoe Saynor
Jo Varley
Andrew Williams

The Centre has an active international research links programme especially with the following:

  • University of Hong Kong (Dr Alison McManus)
  • University of Coimbra, Portugal (Drs Amandio Santosl)
  • Nanyang University, Singapore (Dr Michael Chia)

International visiting professors and fellows include:

  • The late and esteemed Prof Oded Bar-Or (McMaster University, Canada)[in-memorium]
  • Prof John Carlson (Victoria University of Technology, Australia)
  • Docent Dr Maarike Haaro (University of Tartu, Estonia)
  • Assoc Prof Jenny Ross (Lincoln University, New Zealand)
  • Professor Bob Wolfe (University of Colorado, USA)

And Professor P.O. Åstrand is an honorary graduate