No images? Click here Your weekly physical activity bulletin30 November 2021 We are working towards improving the health and wellbeing of the nation through sport, exercise and physical activity. For more information on our work visit our website or follow us on Twitter @NCSEM_PAnews New platform to share research ideas with global scientific communityLoughborough University has launched a new platform that enables academics to share research ideas with scientists across the world, allowing greater collaboration and ensuring no idea is wasted. The Research Ideas Catalogue – Knowledge and Impact (RIC-KI) website has been created by the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, and is initially focussed on research ideas related to physical activity and health, weight management and dietary behaviours, health and wellbeing, and sport. The team hope this will be expanded to all research areas moving forward. It features a collection of ‘best’ research questions in these areas that academics wish to share with the global scientific community as potential collaborative research projects. UK Sport publishes pregnancy guidance for athletes and sportsUK Sport believes that starting a family and being an elite athlete should not be mutually exclusive and has published pregnancy guidance for the Olympic and Paralympic high-performance community following a consultation. The organisation advises athletes on how and when to when to share their pregnancy and provides guidance to sports should an athlete share their pregnancy with them. It recommends that a framework to ensure a responsible and reasonable approach is adopted through the pregnancy and after but is not advocating a one-size fits all approach, recognising requirements will vary depending on many factors. New European physically active learning teacher training curriculum launchedA new European physically active learning (PAL) teacher training curriculum has been launched. The curriculum has been developed as part of a six nation partnership project, called ACTivate. The objective of the project is to co-create, with teachers and other school stakeholders, an innovative European-wide open access PAL education programme, web portal and community of practice. The curriculum was launched alongside two webinars and provided an introduction to the project, an overview of the curriculum document and an opportunity to hear from PAL practitioners across Europe. New campaign promotes activity to pregnant women and new mumsA new campaign entitled ‘Active Mums Start With You’ has been launched to help equip healthcare professionals with the resources they need to speak about physical activity with pregnant women and new mums. It encourages GPs, midwives and health visitors to proactively talk to and advise pregnant women and new mothers about activity and provide advice if they’re unsure of what to do. This initiative comes in the wake of a survey which showed that 64% of pregnant women or women with children under one-year experienced nervousness or anxiety related to physical activity. Get Yourself Active launches new Moving Social Work programme websiteGet Yourself Active, Durham University and Sport England have launched the Moving Social Work programme website, which aims to create resources and co-produce strategies for the education of social workers. This initiative is designed to equip social workers with the resources and tools to promote physical education to people with a disability, who are more inactive and suffer poorer health compared to non-disabled people. Several resources, including a detailed academic summary and infographics that detail the aims and timeline for the programme were prepared as part of the launch. Activity Alliance Annual Survey update for 2022The national Activity Alliance’s Annual Disability and Activity Survey for 2021-22, which tracks disabled people’s perceptions and experiences of sport and physical activity has revealed the stark impact of COVID-19 on activity levels. Key findings include almost 25% disabled people stated that they had not received enough information about how to be active during the pandemic compared with 13% of non-disabled. 29% of respondents also felt they didn’t have the opportunity to be as active as they wanted to, compared with 44% of able-bodied people. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive it either via the SSEHS Active website or the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (East Midlands) website. Read our privacy policy. |