Rob joined the department in September 2016 from the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. Rob graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Sport Development with Inclusion from Liverpool John Moores University. His PhD was completed with the Physical Activity Exchange at Liverpool John Moores University, and was awarded the Professor Tom Reilly Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award in 2018 by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. Rob is principally interested in childhood physical activity and health. Within this area his work specifically aims to demonstrate the important role the environment plays in influencing childhood health. Rob is also interested in physical activity measurement, participatory research methods and socioeconomic health inequalities. He is an outdoors enthusiast and passionate about the promotion of unstructured physical activity.