Success for SPHSU children’s physical activity project

Published: 14 March 2018

On 06 November 2019, the Children Create project team launched their educational toolkit for teachers "Schools on the move" at the Scottish Physical Activity Research Conference, where PI Paul McCrorie was awarded best oral presentation

Children Create is a multidisciplinary project led by the MRC/CS0 Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, in partnership with the Children’s Parliament and Actify.

The project aims to help schools become more active learning environments by translating physical activity-related academic research into practically relevant educational resources co-produced with children and young people.

The project team presented Children Create at ScotPARC (Scottish Physical Activity Research Conference) in Edinburgh on 06 November 2019 where they officially launched their educational toolkit for teachers, 'Schools on the Move'. Dr Paul McCrorie, the Principal Investigator of the project, was awarded best oral presentation at the conference. Paul showed a short film that the team created about children's physical activity.

View video: https://youtu.be/w83S2l6gfEE


First published: 14 March 2018