Professor Sebastien Chastin has played a key role in developing new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour launched today (Thursday, November 26). The esteemed academic…
GCU Professor of Health Behaviour Dynamics Sebastien Chastin has been named in the top one per cent of the world’s most influential researchers in the Clarivate’s Web of Science Highly…
GCU’s Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group has risen to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by finding new and inventive ways to reach out to our communities.…
Read More SHIP team sails across new horizons to reach out to communities during the pandemic
Join GCU staff in a series of events celebrating Glasgow Explorathon 2020. Dr Joanna McParland and Dr Ukachukwu Abaraogu will explore the psychological and physiological aspects of pain in Ma leg…
Professor in Ageing and Health Dawn Skelton is part of an expert panel behind a report calling on the government to look into the physical and psychological effects of lockdown…
Read More Ageing expert calls for a National Covid-19 Resilience Programme for older people
GCU School of Health and Life Sciences’ Professors Sharon Hutchinson and David Goldberg have been at the heart of major research which has provided important epidemiological insights on COVID-19 to…
Read More Leading GCU researchers play key role in COVID-19 public health response
GCU’s Professor in Neurological Rehabilitation Frederike van Wijck is chairing a two-day online conference as president-elect of the Society for Research in Rehabilitation (SRR). The conference is a joint venture with…
Read More Stroke researcher leads UK-wide rehabilitation conference
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) researchers have found that more needs to be done to support the mental health of COVID-19 frontline health and social care professionals. Dr Alex Pollock and…
Read More COVID-19 study on the mental health of frontline health and social care professionals
A rise in negative health behaviours – such as lack of sleep, exercise and an unhealthy diet – is linked to poorer mental health during the tightest restrictions of Scotland’s…
Read More Lockdown lifestyle linked to poor mental health in Scotland