Category: Health and wellbeing

There is an urgent need for ways to support people in managing their wellbeing that are easy to implement, low in cost and evidence-based.

A number of theories are used to underpin behaviour change interventions aiming to improve health outcomes, but evidence is yet to identify that these are fully successful.

Many workplaces have implemented health and wellbeing initiatives to improve mental wellbeing, yet few know the impact of these initiatives.

Evaluating the impact of changing from a traditional office to a new workspace built using agile design principles.

Children born preterm or smaller at birth are at greater risk of multiple health conditions in adulthood. Most studies have only explored these outcomes in singleton pregnancies despite low birthweight being more common in multiple births.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a talking therapy used to effect behaviour change. Therapists get little feedback, but software is being developed to automatically assess MI.

COVID-19 caused a rapid change in the working environment, resulting many workplaces having to close and vast numbers of workers now working from home. Initial evidence suggests that levels of physical activity in the population have fallen over the course of the pandemic.