Archives: April 2024

15 Apr 2024

Professor Ben Barratt

Professor Ben Barratt is a Professor in Environmental Exposures & Public Health and Deputy Director of the Environmental Research Group. His early career focussed on the establishment of co-ordinated air quality monitoring networks, including the London Air Quality Network,...

15 Apr 2024

Professor Frank Kelly

Professor Frank Kelly obtained his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in Physiology and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University. He became a Senior Lecturer at St Thomas’s Hospital before moving to King’s College London as...

15 Apr 2024

Dr Ian Mudway

Dr Ian Mudway is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at Imperial, a member of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health; MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma and the NIHR-PHE Health...

15 Apr 2024

Professor Paul Elliott

Professor Paul Elliott trained in clinical medicine and epidemiology as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow at St Mary’s Hospital London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He studied for his PhD in Epidemiology on the INTERSALT...

15 Apr 2024

SPA – COVID 19

This study looks to understand and monitor the type, amount, length and intensities of daily physical activity, as well as the timing, efficiency and length of your sleep. We are looking to find out which environmental and individual factors may influence your daily exercise and sleep, and therefore may...

15 Apr 2024

BASS (Biological Analysis for SCAMP Samples)

BASS is the study that uses the saliva and urine samples we collected during two visits and looks at  Puberty  In the saliva and urine collected we can assess puberty onset and progression. We’ve seen that the ratio of two hormones (luteinizing...

15 Apr 2024

CLUE (Cognitive Development in the Urban Environment study)

Young people are increasingly exposed to air pollution and noise in an urban environment, and we already know these ‘exposures’ (mainly arising from transport and industry) are bad for our health, animals, and the environment. However, their psychological effects...

15 Apr 2024

Activity Tracker Study

The Activity Tracker Study aims to measure sleep and physical activity in young people for up to 60 days to better understand how mobile phone use, sleep and physical activity impact your mental health. It is part of the...

15 Apr 2024

Research Challenge

The Research Challenge is a student-led practical research programme in which up to eight selected Year 12 students collaborate with researchers at Imperial College London to plan and deliver a real data collection session at their school, followed by...