CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Dr Andy Daly-Smith is a reader in physical activity and healthy childhood. His research focuses on the design, development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions for physical activity and health in children. He is involved in the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research and Born in Bradford as a Research Director on the Sport England funded JUMP programme. Andy led the co-development of Creating Active Schools, the first UK-based whole-school physical activity framework with 50 regional, national and international stakeholders. CAS is now being delivered in >200 schools within the UK.
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Anna’s research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of school-based physical activity interventions. Anna strongly believes in working at the interface of research, policy and practice in physical activity promotion to ensure that the work she does is impactful and is applicable to the real world. She is particularly interested in the translation of research and how it is used to inform policy and practice.
Anna has acted as an advisor to a range of national and international health promotion agencies (e.g. Public Health England and the World Health Organization) and has served on the board of directors for the International Society for Physical Activity and Health. She is currently Chair of the World Health Organization’s Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) Europe Network.
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Zoe is a PhD Student in the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research focuses on the evaluation of the Creating Active Schools Programme across Bradford and employs a range of mixed method research designs. Through her PhD she has led on the development of a complex implementation research logic model to detail the national CAS programme and guide future evaluation. Zoe has also worked as a research fellow, managing the Bradford Local Delivery Pilot (JU:MP) Control Trial to assess changes in childhood physical activity levels across Bradford.
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Dr Jade Morris is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Children’s Physical Activity and Well-being within the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford. Jade’s research interest include implementation and evaluation of school-based physical activity interventions, and understanding the feasibility needs of assessing physical literacy in school and club contexts.
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Shania is PhD Student in the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford, funded through White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. Shania's research focuses on physical inactivity and health in children and the development of behaviour change interventions. She is supporting the data collection of Bradford's local delivery pilot (Join Us: Move Play) control trial.
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Dr Victoria Archbold is an Associate Professor within the school of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at Bradford University (UK). Victoria has school wide responsibilities for the Student Experience. Victoria’s research focuses on behavioural science, specifically, understanding the design, implementation and evaluation of school and community based physical activity and we E-Learning PA resourcesll-being interventions for children and young people. Victoria was involved (in partnership with AfPE) in developing content for the online CPD modules for schools engaged in Creating Active Schools (CAS). She has engaged in similar E-Learning PA resources for schools and teachers across Europe.
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Mozalfa is a Business Support Administrator for the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford. She currently supports the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies. She also supports the organisation and delivery of events & projects within the faculty. She has worked on the Deans Dinner Event, the Faculty Awaydays, Alzheimer’s Disease International accreditation, and the delivery of bespoke teaching & training to both national and international organisations.
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Andrea is the Creating Active Schools Project Manage in Bradford, and currently works with the JU:MP programme to lead on the active schools workstream. She has had a thirty year career in education, from classroom teacher, education consultant to head teacher before joining the JU:MP Team. This move has enabled her to combine her passion for supporting schools & staff in furthering the education of pupils with her belief in the benefits of being physically active, in her words, “this role has enabled me to really focus on supporting a professional development programme for schools, helping them to create happy and healthy environments for pupils through physical activity”.
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Alex Ogden has worked in the education sector now for over 15 years. He spent 12 years teaching in primary schools across Yorkshire, leading PE, Sport and Physical Activity provision in those settings, before becoming an education consultant. As the founder of Burn2Learn, specialising in physically active learning, he has supported senior leaders nationwide to adopt a whole school approach to getting children moving across the wider curriculum. He now leads the education team at the Yorkshire Sport Foundation where he supports local authorities, academy trusts and senior leaders in schools across West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire to embed physical activity at a strategic level in schools. Alex is also the National Partnerships Manager for the pioneering Creating Active Schools Programme.
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Ellen Silva has a degree (2017) and MSc (2020) in physical education. Currently she is a PhD student in Health Sciences at the State University of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, and a visiting PhD student at the University of Bradford. She is interested in strategies for health promotion in the school setting and research in active behaviours.
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Nusha graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Kinesiology and Health Education. She is part of the Exercise and Sport Psychology Lab lead by Dr. John Bartholomew at UT Austin. As part of her undergraduate thesis, Nusha studied the relationship between motivation and effort in cycling. Working with the Creating Active Schools Research team, Nusha hopes to gain experience in the field of implementation science and community-based practice.