Dr Fiona Muirhead
Senior Lecturer
Physical Activity and Health
Personal statement
Dr Fiona Muirhead is a Senior Lecturer, Principal and Co- Investigator on multiple interdisciplinary research projects spanning disability health, digital wellbeing, and inclusive heritage. She is co-applicant on the STRIDE initiative, submitted to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2025, which explores how Scottish libraries can foster community support, trusted information, inclusive spaces, heritage discovery, and wellbeing.
She is also leading a funded project on 24-hour movement behaviours in youth with Learning Disabilities, which is the first UK-based study to examine adherence to integrated physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep guidelines in this population. This work contributes vital data to an under-researched area.
Fiona also supervises PhD projects in the areas of disability health, digital wellbeing and chronic pain and PA and health in vulnerable populations.
Prize And Awards
- screenomics: a new approach for observing and studying individuals' digital lives
- Recipient
- 2019
- Chancellor's Fellowship
- Recipient
- 30/9/2015
Publications
- Physical Activity and Health Annual Report 2025
- Harrington Deirdre, Janssen Xanne, Kirk Alison, Reilly John, Hughes Adrienne, Hewitt Allan, McMichan Lauren, Muirhead Fiona, Weston Kathryn, Bardid Farid
- (2026)
- Dual-facing digital health systems to support self-management of chronic pain : protocol for a scoping review
- Pursley Martin, Muirhead Fiona, Mavroeidi Alexandra, Maguire Roma
- JMIR Research Protocols Vol 15 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/84152
- Perspectives on group-based physical activity interventions for fibromyalgia : a qualitative study
- Pursley Martin, Muirhead Fiona, Donnachie Craig, Mavroeidi Alexandra
- Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia & Falls Vol 11, pp. 41-53 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.22540/JFSF-11-041
- Group-based physical activity interventions for fibromyalgia : a systematic scoping review
- Pursley Martin, Muirhead Fiona, Donnachie Craig, Kennedy David, Mavroeidi Alexandra
- Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia & Falls Vol 10, pp. 279-294 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.22540/JFSF-10-279
- Physical Activity and Health Annual Report 2024
- Reilly John, Harrington Deirdre, Hewitt Allan, Hughes Adrienne, Janssen Xanne, Johnston Evelyn, Kirk Alison, McMichan Lauren, Muirhead Fiona, Weston Kathryn
- (2025)
- Life postdiagnosis : female adult breast cancer survivors' experience with physical activity - a qualitative systematic review
- Brown Neeve, Muirhead Fiona
- The Breast Journal Vol 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1155/tbj/6926093
Professional Activities
- Stories from Strathclyde: Celebrating our work with children and young people
- Participant
- 15/5/2025
Projects
- Supporting Communities, TRusted Information, Inclusive spaces, heritage Discovery, and wEllbeing in Scottish Libraries
- Innocenti, Perla (Principal Investigator) Muirhead, Fiona (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2025 - 02-Jan-2027
- £15k Diamond Jubilee Research Scholarship Award. Investigating the Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sport experiences and engagement of women with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Kirk, Alison (Co-investigator) Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Investigating 24-hour movement behaviours in young people with Intellectual Disabilities in Scotland
- Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Bardid, Farid (Co-investigator) Crawford, Megan (Co-investigator) Donnachie, Craig (Co-investigator) Reilly, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
- Evaluation and adaptation of a digital self-management tool for people with chronic pain
- Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Maguire, Roma (Co-investigator) Mavroeidi, Alexandra (Co-investigator)
- £70,000 David Stirling PhD studentship
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028
- University of Strathclyde student experiences of an online physical activity programme
- Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Hughes, Adrienne (Co-investigator)
- Strathclye sport studentship; £4,000
- 08-Jan-2023 - 24-Jan-2025
- We-Belong: Wearables for Better Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
- Muirhead, Fiona (Co-investigator) Kodal, Arne (Principal Investigator) Elgen, Irene Bircow (Co-investigator) Bjørgaas, Hanne-Marit (Co-investigator) Reinhardt, Georg (Co-investigator) Kristiansen, Hege (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Fiona
Muirhead
Senior Lecturer
Physical Activity and Health
Email: fiona.muirhead@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4082