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Public Health and Sport Sciences

Dr Melvyn Hillsdon

Dr Melvyn Hillsdon

Associate Professor
Sport and Health Sciences

RB104A
University of Exeter
Richard's Building
St Luke's Campus
Exeter EX1 2LU

About me:

The focus of Melvyn’s research is physical activity epidemiology and public health. He has published a number of articles on exercise promotion and has been involved in the evaluation of a number of large community exercise interventions in the UK. He has served on a range of government committees as well as charity expert groups and NICE guideline committees. His current research is directed towards the development of digital measures of physical activity with a view to better understand how physical activity relates to health. Melvyn is also the university lead Activity Informatics - a specialist research capability in human physical activity and behaviour measurement. Activity Informatics is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and Activinsights that offers a complete service for public-funded research and clinical trials wanting to use wearable devices. The offering includes all aspects of trial management: deploying/retrieving devices, managing data and processing digital health biomarkers.

 

Melvyn is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and co-authored the book ‘Changing Eating & Exercise Behaviour: A handbook for professionals’.

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