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Professor Stuart Biddle

Professor Stuart Biddle
Name Stuart Biddle
Position Professor (Physical Activity and Health)
Section Centre for Health Research (Operations)
Office B319
Location Springfield Campus
Email
Qualifications BEd(Hons) L'boro,UK , MSc Penn State , PhD Keele

Biography

Stuart Biddle is Professor of Physical Activity and Health and head of the Physically Active Lifestyles (PALs) Research Group in the Centre for Health Research. He is based at the Springfield campus near Brisbane. Prior to his move to Australia in 2014 Stuart was Professor of Physical Activity & Health at Loughborough University in the UK where he was Head of the School of Sport & Exercise Sciences between 2001 and 2007. Stuart has a PhD in social psychology and his current research interests centre on sedentary behaviour and physical activity correlates and behaviour change strategies, as well as mental health outcomes. He is past president of the European Federation for the Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity (FEPSAC) and International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA). He has published extensively in psychology, public health, and behavioural medicine, with a current H-index of 77 (Scopus) and 120 (Google Scholar). He is a Web of Science 'Highly Cited Researcher' 2018-2020, in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about Health Education over the past 10 years ("World Expert") calculated by Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms, and ranked 19th all-time worldwide for career-long citation impact in ‘sport sciences’ up until the end of 2019 (ranked 8th for 2020). His co-authored book, Psychology of Physical Activity (Routledge, 2021) is now in its 4th edition. In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (Norges Idrettshøgskole; NIH).

Research Career


  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified ( 111799 )
  • Public Health not elsewhere classified ( 420699 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise not elsewhere classified ( 420799 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise ( 420700 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Health Psychology ( 520304 )

Physical activity for health: correlates and influences, behaviour change, psychology
Sedentary behaviour: measurement, health outcomes, influences, behaviour change, psychology


British Psychological Society
International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity
International Society of Physical Activity and Health
American College of Sports Medicine
British Association of Sport and Exercise Science


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

Supervision


  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified ( 111799 )
  • Public Health not elsewhere classified ( 420699 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise not elsewhere classified ( 420799 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise ( 420700 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Health Psychology ( 520304 )