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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