Healthy Schools

The Healthy Schools topic seeks to develop interventions and methods to improve mental and physical health in schools through across sector collaboration with health and educational professionals.

Healthy Schools Projects

Large-Scale Acquisition of Electrical Brain Activity from the Born in Bradford Longitudinal Cohort

The Born in Bradford Brain project (BiB Brain) aims to engage an entire district in neuroscience research by utilising commercial-grade systems to image the brain through citizen-science data collection workshops...

The understanding and co-development of a whole-school approach to support the least active children

Physical inactivity is becoming a growing public health concern worldwide. Research shows that there is an average decline of 4.2% in total physical activity for each subsequent year of age....

Evaluation of the implementation and impact of the Creating Active Schools framework

The Creating Active Schools (CAS) framework has been co-designed by 50 experts in health and education, supporting schools to embed physical activity in policies, systems, behaviours and environments, so that...

Meet the Healthy Schools Team

Kuldeep Sohal

Programme Manager- Connected Bradford

Mark Mon Williams

Director - Centre for Applied Education Research