Physical activity, exercise and energy expenditure
Challenging conceptions, tackling public health problems
The physical activity, exercise and energy expenditure research theme brings together researchers from across disciplines to address societal problems of physical inactivity and obesity.
Our research theme brings together researchers from across disciplines to collaborate in project nodes. These project nodes conduct research examining workplace health, human-animal interactions, sleep, and sedentary behaviour, as well as physical activity and exercise interventions in clinical and community settings.
We work across disciplines with researchers specialising in health, clinical medicine, computer science, physiology, psychology, architecture, science, physiotherapy, nursing, and many external agencies.
Current projects within this theme
- Active Ageing
- Baby1000 study
- Bias in research
- Biology of ageing
- Brain and body
- Cardiovascular clinical project node
- Cell-based therapies for type 1 diabetes
- Chronic disease management clinical project node
- Climate adaptation and health
- ClinPASS
- Digital solutions in cardiovascular disease prevention
- Dog ownership and human health
- Economics of human development
- Early prevention of obesity in childhood
- eHealth in gaming and avatars
- Endocrinology and diabetes clinical project node
- Evidence synthesis
- Fibrosis and wound healing
- Health literacy chronic disease network
- Implementation science
- Incidental physical activity and sedentary behaviour
- Kidney health
- Lifestyle management clinical project node
- Living healthier lives under the Australian sun
- Oral and systemic health
- Positive computing in health systems
- Preventative cardiology
- Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium (ProPASS)
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Wireless wellbeing and personalised health