
Dr Deirdre Harrington
Senior Lecturer
Physical Activity for Health
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Prize And Awards
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Publications
- Physical activity levels during school recess in a nationally representative sample of 10-11-year-olds
- Wong Lan Sum, Reilly John J, McCrorie Paul, Harrington Deirdre M
- Pediatric Exercise Science, pp. 1-7 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1123/pes.2022-0144
- Standard Operating Procedure : Recruitment and Data Collection in the Field for 'From Bike Bus to Bike Use' Project
- Harrington Deirdre
- (2023)
- Association between chronotype and physical behaviours in adolescent girls
- Plekhanova Tatiana, Crawley Emily, Davies Melanie J, Gorely Trish, Harrington Deirdre M, Ioannidou Ekaterini, Khunti Kamlesh, Rowlands Alex V, Sherar Lauren B, Yates Tom, Edwardson Charlotte L, Şahin Fatma Neşe
- Children Vol 10 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/children10050819
- "Is everybody comfortable?" Thinking through co-design approaches to better support girls' physical activity in schools
- O'Reilly Michelle, Wiltshire Gareth, Kiyimba Nikki, Harrington Deirdre
- Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health Vol 15, pp. 248-263 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2083663
- Moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity during school hours in a representative sample of 10–11-year-olds in Scotland
- Wong Lan Sum, Reilly John J, McCrorie Paul, Harrington Deirdre M
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol 26, pp. 120-124 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2022.10.014
- A qualitative study of adults who switched to active commuting during the COVID-19 lockdowns
- Mitchell Adam, Mitchell Fiona, Harrington Deirdre
- Journal of Sport Sciences Vol 40, pp. 1-39 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2022.2125766
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Teaching
Currently teaching at undergraduate level on the B.Sc. in Sport and Physical Activity.
I taught at Masters level (M.Sc. in Diabetes Medicine, University of Leicester).
I have also delivered practical professional development sessions to healthcare professionals.
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Research Interests
I have worked on the global research platform for 15 years. My research interests have evolved over this time and can be summarised into three themes:
- Prevention of ill-health in the clinical and public health areas of physical activity, obesity, type 2 diabetes.
- Design, evaluation and implementation of school, family and community-based programmes.
- Uniting stakeholders including public health, local authority and key community groups and organisations (e.g. professional sports clubs, faith centres) with academics in tackling prevalent health challenges.
Current topics I am moving forward with include:
- Physical activity and related health behaviour (sleep, screen time, obesity) interventions in pre-schoolers and their families.
- Transport behaviours - sustainable transport (walk, cycle, public transport) and private car use in COVID times. Changes in behaviours, attitudes, benefits for the individual and cities, the future for walking/cycling as transport.
- The outsourcing of PE, physical activity and health promotion to professional sports clubs in schools and the community.
- The future of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 recovery. How have PhD students and early career researchers been affected by school closures?
Do get in touch if you are interested in collaborating on these topics.
Professional Activities
- External Grant Reviewer - Carnegie Trust
- Examiner
- 12/1/2023
- RSE Saltire award bilateral research workshops
- Organiser
- 11/12/2022
- Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Visiting researcher
- 11/12/2022
- Scottish-Finnish Health Promotion Network
- Participant
- 9/12/2022
- BMJ Open (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/12/2022
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
- Participant
- 16/11/2022
Projects
- From Bike Bus to Bike Use
- Harrington, Deirdre (Principal Investigator)
- 04-Jan-2023 - 06-Jan-2024
- Human Behaviour Change as an Engineering Intervention
- Harrington, Deirdre (Academic) MacKinnon, Calum (Academic)
- A Lunch and Learn presentation to Electrical Engineers at the University of Strathclyde about the human component of making energy saving decisions
- 26-Jan-2023
- Scottish Funding Council - Interface Innovation Voucher - Nutrition Scotland
- Harrington, Deirdre (Principal Investigator) Kirk, Alison (Principal Investigator) Mavroeidi, Alexandra (Co-investigator) Russell, Eilidh (Researcher)
- Knowledge exchange/consultancy with Nutrition Scotland (£4,919) to develop novel prevention products for carers of those at risk of type 2 diabetes
- 31-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Development of a Core Outcome Set for school-based childhood obesity interventions: an international consensus study.
- Harrington, Deirdre (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Links between sport and physical activity with climate change and sustainability
- Harrington, Deirdre (Co-investigator) McMichan, Lauren (Co-investigator)
- A number of activities are taking place within the Physical Activity for Health Group as we reflect on how our research, teaching and knowledge exchange links to climate change and the SDGs.
Initial activities include:
- Development of a news story on how the PAH research supports the achievement of a number of SDGs.
- Creation of an infographic summarising links between sport, physical activity and climate change.
- Planning for the embedding of climate change and sustainability messages into our Sport and Physical Activity B.Sc. - 14-Jan-2021
- NIHR Global Health Research Group on collaborative care for cardiometabolic disease in Africa
- Harrington, Deirdre (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
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Contact
Dr
Deirdre
Harrington
Senior Lecturer
Physical Activity for Health
Email: deirdre.harrington@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted