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Dr Alex Rowlands

Associate Professor

School/Department: Population Health Sciences, Department of

Email: avr4@leicester.ac.uk

Profile

I am an Associate Professor in the Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Leicester. I previously worked at the University of South Australia University of Exeter and the University of Wales Bangor.

Research

My research focuses on the use of accelerometry-based wearable monitors to measure human movement and sleep. This includes methodological work on accelerometer data analysis and epidemiological work concerning physical behaviours and health. Currently I am an Associate Editor with the Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour and Pediatric Exercise Science.

Publications

Supervision

Accelerometry-based wearable monitors - development of analytical methods to assess human movement and/or associations between movement and health

Teaching

Diabetes MSc

Press and media

Accelerometry-based wearable monitors

Activities

Associate Editor: Pediatric Exercise Science (from 2014) Associate Editor: Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (from 2017) Scientific Committee: International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviours.

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