Professor Eunice Lumsden
Professor of Child Advocacy and Head of Childhood, Youth and Families at the University of Northampton
Back to the future: Nurturing the child in the moment, nurturing the child in the young person and nurturing the adult they will become.
Professor Lumsden will be sharing her research on Wednesday 16th July as part of our Early Years Education, Families, and Communities theme.
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We remember so little of our earliest experiences, yet they shape and orchestrate so much of our life journey. This presentation draws on the lessons that so many adults teach us about the importance of high-quality provision and support in early childhood for parents and carers. It will specifically focus on the role of Early Childhood Education and Care in creating opportunities that draw on theory, statistics and lived experience to ensure that Early Childhood is a catalyst of change.
Professor Miranda Thurston
Professor of Public Health, University of Inland Norway
From physical activity interventions to physically active learning: schools as ‘ideal settings’ for promoting physical activity
Professor Thurston will be presenting on Thursday 17th July as part of our Inequalities, Health and Wellbeing theme.
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Schools have long been seen as ‘ideal settings’ for promoting health-related physical activity. In recent years, however, the ostensible benefits of physical activity have been linked to an expanding range of outcomes – cognition and mental wellbeing, for example – that relate to learning and academic achievement. Physically active learning (PAL) is one of the more recent approaches that has gained traction in schools, which has the aim of integrating physical activity into teaching. This presentation explores the emergence, development and implementation of PAL in selected countries such as Norway and England. More specifically, it explores how PAL is perceived by teachers and young people as well as some of its impacts. In so doing, it considers a number of important questions relating to this increasingly popular justification for physical activity in schools and the implications for policy and practice.
