We bring together experts from a diverse range of fields including physical activity, sedentary behaviour, business, and architecture to generate new knowledge that will better inform company wellness policy and the establishment of activity-promoting workplaces.

Our research in healthier workplaces aims to:

• evaluate the benefit/s of sit-stand desks
• examine sedentary patterns in new activity-based working environments
• investigate staff and management perceptions of promoting activity and less sitting in the workplace
• engage in cohort trials with public transport drivers.

Our work creates new knowledge to better inform company wellness policy and the establishment of activity-promoting workplaces.

Our findings and new technologies will make sedentary workers healthier. In addition to using commercially available self-monitoring devices, we’re also developing new software, apps and e-solutions that will better monitor workers’ physical activity.

Internal collaborators

• Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli
• Professor Adrian Bauman
• Dr Josephine Chau (Project Node Leader)
• Associate Professor Teresa Davis
• Professor Richard de Dear
• Dr Lina Engelen (Project Node Leader)
• Professor Judy Kay
• Dr Martin Mackey
• Professor Corinne Mulley
• Dr Evangelos Pappas
• Dr Philayrath Phongsavan
• Associate Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis

External collaborators

• Professor Stuart Biddle, Victoria University
• Professor Wendy Brown, University of Queensland
• Ms Michelle Daley, Heart Foundation