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We’re stronger when we work together. That’s why we value our work with many organisations – including government, non-government organisations, peak and professional bodies, health service providers, sport organisations, research organisations and community groups – to make a positive impact on health and society. Interested in collaborating with us? Get in touch.
Our expertise and capabilities include:
Advocacy agendas
- Provide latest evidence to inform policy and other agendas
- Provide expert spokespeople for meetings or media activities
- Provide letters of support
- Develop evidence-based submissions
Review the evidence relevant to our research areas
- Conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Literature reviews (including scoping reviews and rapid reviews)
- Preparation of research summaries
- Development of evidence briefings
Health/diet/physical activity program design and evaluation
- Program design, including community-based, clinical and translational interventions
- Develop and evaluate digital health interventions for physical activity and diet across age groups
- Advise on, or development of, evaluation plan or tools
- Undertake monitoring and evaluation (both quantitative and qualitative)
Research-practice translation, implementation and scale-up of population interventions
- Trial design, including hybrid implementation-effectiveness trials
- Advice on and development of pragmatic, real-world evaluations
- Assessment of intervention implementation and scalability
Survey design and implementation
- Assessment of dietary intake, physical activity and sedentary behaviours across age groups
- Statistical analysis of nutrition data including nutrients, foods and dietary patterns
- Assessment of environmental influences on active living, sport, food and nutrition (mapping and audits)
- Assessment of relationships between psychosocial constructs – providing insights into attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours
Clinical trials and measures
- Design and implement clinical randomised controlled trials (nutrition, exercise, or lifestyle behaviours), community and translational trials
- Assess body composition with a range of devices (DXA, pQCT, bioelectrical impedance)
- Assess bone density, bone structure and strength
- Assess energy expenditure
- Assess cardiac function and vascular health
- Assess cellular and molecular structure and function using muscle biopsies
- Assess peak and functional muscle strength, power, mobility and aerobic capacity
- Objective measures of nutritional status to assess chronic disease-related malnutrition
- Assess cognitive function
- Quantitative metabolic profiling
- Biochemical flux analysis using stable isotope tracers
- Assessment of sleep quality and quantity using wearable technology and questionnaires
Industry specific work
- Recipe and meal plan assessments and development of nutritional food supplements
- Testing the impact of foods on health and wellbeing
- Evaluation of wearable and digital physical activity and health devices
- Job task analyses
Other
- Participate in working groups or advisory committees
- Conduct training workshops
- Present at key forums, seminars and conferences
- Undertake research consultancy projects
- Partner in research projects
- Develop white papers and thought leadership pieces to guide decision-making and provide recommendations to the sport sector
- Work with organisations to develop research questions and methods for answering them