Project Title: A PhD study exploring health, wellbeing, and physical activity inequalities across the West Midlands, promoting opportunities to inclusively engage the wider community.
Project Code: SHEPA-40390671
Project Description:
Following the development of a BCU Communities National Centre of Excellence in Sport, Health, Education and Physical Activity (SHEPA). This PhD study will explore the inequalities and opportunities for SHEPA across the West Midlands, with a focus on targeting underrepresented groups to access SHEPA through staged interventions. This study will also form part of an impact case study of the National Centre of Excellence.
Anticipated Findings:
1. To explore Sport, Health, Education and Physical Activity opportunities and inequalities across the West Midlands.
2. To stage and measure the impact of intervention programmes to increase participation levels in underrepresented groups.
3. To measure the impact the new BCU Communities National Centre of Excellence has on community Sport, Health, Education and Physical Activity.
Contact (and Director of Studies for this project):
Irfan Khawaja - Irfan.Khawaja@bcu.ac.uk