The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at will lead a consortium with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and Intelligent Health to run the Sport England-funded Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) Programme.

Active Wait is a collaborative research project developed by the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University and the Musculoskeletal Care Group at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which aims to enable people awaiting hip or knee replacement surgery to remain active and feel prepared.

We are currently working with VentriJect – a Danish medical device manufacturer. The main objective of this project is to test the validity of a device designed to estimate cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) while a person is at rest. VentriJect have previously demonstrated the device’s validity in a healthy population. The current project will focus on people with coronary artery disease.

Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme will provide its next cohort of early-stage businesses with dedicated support to grow their business through input from its current crop of talented global MBA students.

Google has announced investment in ground-breaking research, apprenticeships and digital skills training through the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub to help address health inequalities and drive economic growth across the region.

Sheffield Hallam University researcher, Dr Alice Bullas, been awarded a £1.6m Future Leaders Fellowship from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop new body measurement methods for children living with obesity.

Sheffield Hallam University has been awarded £400,000 to create a friendly robotic service for preventive care amongst older adults at risk of frailty