Dr Emma Lawlor

Research Associate (Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health)
Associate (School of Social & Political Sciences)

email: Emma.Lawlor@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Biography

Emma’s research focuses on developing and evaluating active travel interventions, using qualitative methods to understand how communities experience the environment, and exploring stakeholders’ experiences of implementing population health interventions.

Emma currently is a Research Associate on the GALLANT project (Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation) (September 2022 to current) leading the active travel work package. Examples of roles includes working with stakeholders and communities to co-develop locally appropriate active travel interventions, developing and validating new assessment tools and undertaking a randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of active travel interventions within communities.

Before joining the University of Glasgow, Emma worked as a Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge from 2017 to 2022. Her research mainly focused on evaluating population-level environment and policy interventions related to active travel and health promoting environments. Examples include an ethnographic study of how families experience their school journeys in new towns, interviews and a systematic review on policy processes involved in planning and implementing environmental active travel interventions, analysis of parliamentary debates regarding the soft drinks industry levy, and an evaluation of school streets scheme. She was also involved in conducting numerous systematic reviews, including a Public Health England rapid evidence review on integration of physical activity promotion in healthcare services. She also worked as a Research Associate in the Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups research programme developing and evaluating weight management interventions.

In addition to her Glasgow role, Emma works as a Research Associate at the University of Westminster (March 2022 to current) evaluating the low traffic neighbourhood schemes in London. This involves walk along interviews with residents regarding their experiences of the living within and near these schemes. She is also involved in a process evaluation of the Department for Transport Active Travel Fund.

Emma is activity involved in the early career committee of the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, being a co-chair of the webinar and workshop sub-committee. She is a co-investigator on the study “Challenges, needs and opportunities for emerging behavioural nutrition and physical activity researchers: in (post-)pandemic times” with other committee members. She is also on the editorial board of the journal ‘Active Travel Studies’.

Emma was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy from the University of Ulster and an MSc in Public Health from Queen’s University Belfast. Emma completed her PhD in 2018 at the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, focusing on physical activity interventions in deprived communities.

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0742-0476

Publications

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Number of items: 24.

2023

Rennie, K. L., Lawlor, E. R., , Yassaee, A., Booth, A., Westgate, K., Sharp, S. J., Tyrrell, C. S.B., Aral, M. and Wareham, N. J. (2023) Engagement with mHealth COVID-19 digital biomarker measurements in a longitudinal cohort study: mixed methods evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e40602. (doi: 10.2196/40602) (PMID:36194866) (PMCID:PMC9842396)

Lawlor, E. R. et al. (2023) Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Transport Reviews, 43(3), pp. 478-501. (doi: 10.1080/01441647.2022.2119298)

2022

Lawlor, E.R. , Fry, R. and Rennie, K. (2022) Participants Experiences of the Fenland COVID-19 Study; Fenland COVID-19 Internal Report. Project Report. University of Cambridge.

Furlong, J. and Lawlor, E. (2022) Emerging Agendas in Research, Policy and Practice; Introductory Remarks. Project Report. Active Travel Studies.

Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R. , Foley, L., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Adams, J., Jago, R. and Pollard, T. M. (2022) Children's experiences of the journey between home and school: A qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography. Health and Place, 76, 102819. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102819) (PMID:35667224)

Ahern, A. L. et al. (2022) Acceptability and feasibility of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based guided self-help intervention for weight loss maintenance in adults who have previously completed a behavioural weight loss programme: the SWiM feasibility study protocol. BMJ Open, 12(4), e058103. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058103) (PMID:35440459) (PMCID:PMC9020279)

Lawlor, E.R. , Ellis, K., Panter, J. and Ogilvie, D. (2022) Evidence Submission to Parliamentary Inquiry on Public Transport in Towns and Cities. Documentation. UK Parliament Built Environment Committee.

Strelitz, J., Lawlor, E. R. , Wu, Y., Estlin, A., Nandakumar, G., Ahern, A. L. and Griffin, S. J. (2022) Association between weight change and incidence of cardiovascular disease events and mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of observational studies and behavioural intervention trials. Diabetologia, 65(3), pp. 424-439. (doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05605-1) (PMID:34859263) (PMCID:PMC8803822)

Panter, J., Ikeda, E., Faria, A., Lawlor, E.R. and van Sluijs, E. (2022) Report to the Cambridgeshire Strategy & Resources Committee on No Car Zones Outside Schools Trial. Documentation. Cambridge City Council.

Richards, R. et al. (2022) Development of a web-based, guided self-help, acceptance and commitment therapy–based intervention for weight loss maintenance: evidence-, theory-, and person-based approach. JMIR Formative Research, 6(1), e31801. (doi: 10.2196/31801) (PMID:34994698) (PMCID:PMC8783282)

2021

Rennie, K., Ahern, A., Spillman, L., Lawlor, E. , King, B., Usher-Smith, J., van Sluijs, E. and Wareham, N. (2021) Integration of Physical Activity Promotion within Primary and Secondary Care Settings: Rapid Evidence Review and Lessons from Practice Case Studies, Executive Summary. Documentation. Public Health England.

Jones, R. A., Lawlor, E. R. , Birch, J. M., Patel, M. I., Werneck, A. O., Hoare, E., Griffin, S. J., Sluijs, E. M.F., Sharp, S. J. and Ahern, A. L. (2021) The impact of adult behavioural weight management interventions on mental health: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 22(4), e13150. (doi: 10.1111/obr.13150) (PMID:33103340) (PMCID:PMC7116866)

2020

Rennie, K., Ahern, A., King, B., Spillman, L., Hartley, P., Lawlor, E. and Wareham, N. J. (2020) Integration of Physical Activity Promotion within Primary and Secondary Care Settings: Rapid Evidence Review and Lessons from Practice Case Studies. Documentation. Public Health England. (doi: 10.17863/CAM.64187).

Lawlor, E. R. , Cupples, M. E., Donnelly, M. and Tully, M. A. (2020) Implementing community-based health promotion in socio-economically disadvantaged areas: a qualitative study. Journal of Public Health, 42(4), pp. 839-847. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz167) (PMID:31822896) (PMCID:PMC7685857)

Jong, S. T. et al. (2020) Reach, recruitment, dose, and intervention fidelity of the GoActive school-based physical activity intervention in the UK: a mixed-methods process evaluation. Children, 7(11), 231. (doi: 10.3390/children7110231) (PMID:33212854) (PMCID:PMC7698468)

Lawlor, E. R. , Hughes, C. A., Duschinsky, R., Pountain, G. D., Hill, A. J., Griffin, S. J. and Ahern, A. L. (2020) Cognitive and behavioural strategies employed to overcome “lapses” and prevent “relapse” among weight‐loss maintainers and regainers: a qualitative study. Clinical Obesity, 10(5), e12395. (doi: 10.1111/cob.12395) (PMID:32767708) (PMCID:PMC7116423)

Lawlor, E. R. , Islam, N., Bates, S., Griffin, S. J., Hill, A. J., Hughes, C. A., Sharp, S. J. and Ahern, A. L. (2020) Third‐wave cognitive behaviour therapies for weight management: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 21(7), e13013. (doi: 10.1111/obr.13013) (PMID:32181957) (PMCID:PMC7379202)

Ahern, A. L. et al. (2020) Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a diabetes education and behavioural weight management programme versus a diabetes education programme in adults with a recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: study protocol for the Glucose Lowering through Weight management (GLoW) randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10(4), e035020. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035020) (PMID:32350016) (PMCID:PMC7213851)

Jones, R. A., Lawlor, E. R. , Griffin, S. J., van Sluijs, E. M.F. and Ahern, A. L. (2020) Impact of adult weight management interventions on mental health: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 10(1), e031857. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031857) (PMID:31964665) (PMCID:PMC7045146)

Jong, S. T. et al. (2020) Adolescents’ perspectives on a school-based physical activity intervention: a mixed method study. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 9(1), pp. 28-40. (doi: 10.1016/j.jshs.2019.06.007) (PMID:31921478) (PMCID:PMC6943775)

2019

Lawlor, E. R. , Cupples, M. E., Donnelly, M. and Tully, M. A. (2019) Promoting physical activity among community groups of older women in socio-economically disadvantaged areas: randomised feasibility study. Trials, 20(1), 234. (doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3312-9) (PMID:31023329) (PMCID:PMC6482492)

2018

Lawlor, E. R. , Bradley, D. T., Cupples, M. E. and Tully, M. A. (2018) The effect of community-based interventions for cardiovascular disease secondary prevention on behavioural risk factors. Preventive Medicine, 114, pp. 24-38. (doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.05.019) (PMID:29802876)

Lawlor, E. R. , Islam, N., Griffin, S. J., Hill, A. J., Hughes, C. A. and Ahern, A. L. (2018) Third-wave cognitive behaviour therapies for weight management: systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 8(7), e023425. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023425) (PMID:30068625) (PMCID:PMC6074635)

2015

Lawlor, E. R. and Donnelly, M. (2015) Use of an employment advisory service by cancer survivors. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 33(3), pp. 219-231. (doi: 10.1080/07347332.2015.1019658) (PMID:25761149)

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