ECSS Glasgow 2024

Dr Brendon Stubbs

Dr Brendon Stubbs research focuses on physical activity and mental health and the mind-body interface.  Brendon has published over 500 International academic papers. He is in the top 1% of highly cited researchers in the world in the field of mental health (Web of Science).  

Brendon was lead author of the recently published European Psychiatric Association guidelines on the use of exercise for mental health and senior author on a recent Lancet commission to improve the physical health of people with mental health conditions.  Brendon’s research has featured in multiple media outlets such as the New York Times, TIME magazine, Forbes, CNN, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, BBC news, ITV news and Sky News (among others). Brendon has also has number 1 podcasts with Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Deliciously Ella. Brendon continues to work clinically helping people with severe and enduring mental illness in South London.

Ulf Ekelund

Ulf Ekelund is currently professor in Physical Activity and Health at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and holds a senior researcher position in physical activity and public health at the Norwegian Public Health Institute (20%). Before moving to the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 2012, I lead a research program in physical activity epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

During the last 20 years, I have co-led or led several large international research projects, including the European Youth Heart Study and the International Children Accelerometer database (ICAD), the world largest pooled database of device measured physical activity in young people. I am currently leading an international consortium examining the dose-response and joint associations between device-based measures of sedentary time and physical activity with mortality.

Stuart Biddle

Stuart Biddle is Professor of Physical Activity & Health and Director of the Centre for Health Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His work specialises in psychological, behavioural and public health aspects of sedentary behaviour and physical activity. He started studying screen time in young people in 2001 and has maintained an interest over the past two decades. His co-authored book ‘Psychology of Physical Activity’ (Routledge) is currently being revised for a 4^th edition. He is a Web of Science highly cited researcher for 2018 & 2019.

Guy Faulkner

Guy Faulkner is a Professor and Chair in Applied Public Health in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Broadly, his research has focused on two inter-related themes: the development and evaluation of physical activity interventions; and physical activity and mental health. A particular focus of recent research has been on how best to get more people with depression, more active, more often. He chairs the ParticipACTION research advisory group is a member of the Research Work Group for the Canadian Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, and Adults.  He has contributed to the development of the Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines for children and youth (2015-2017), the early years (2016-2018), and now adults and older adults (2019-2020).  He is the founding editor of the Elsevier journal 'Mental Health and Physical Activity'.

Professor David Dunstan PhD

David Dunstan is Head of the Physical Activity laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne and is a Professorial Fellow at the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Austrlia. His multi-disciplinary research program has provided substantial contributions to the evidence base on the adverse health consequences of too much sitting and the potential health benefits resulting from frequently breaking up sitting time. He has an extensive track record in the design and management of clinical/laboratory and health behaviour intervention trials involving chronic disease subgroups in real-world settings and large scale epidemiological studies. His team has been a major international contributor to sedentary behaviour research, building on the initial observational-study evidence to provide experimental findings from laboratory studies and real-world intervention and implementation trials. The findings have stimulated serious consideration of novel preventive and therapeutic strategies to support the simplified public health and clinical practice message to ‘sit less and move more’.

Victoria Goodyear

Dr Victoria Goodyear is a Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy in Sport, Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Victoria’s research focuses on understanding and enhancing young people’s health and wellbeing through research on pedagogy and digital technologies. Her work utilises mixed methods, with expertise in qualitative inquiry. Victoria’s research has been supported by research councils, trusts and industry, and she has published in pedagogy, education and qualitative research journals. Victoria has given keynotes and invited talks in numerous countries around the world, as well as communicating her research to policy and the media. Victoria is an associated editor for Research Quarterly in Exercise and Sport and serves on the editorial boards for Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy and Quest. She leads on a REF2021 impact case, and her latest book published with Routledge is titled: Young People, Social Media and Health.  Victoria can be found on Twitter: @VGoodyear and an example of her research can be accessed here: http://opencpd.net/Guidelines.html