Dr Rob Southall-Edwards

Rob is a Research Fellow within the Institute of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Suffolk. He completed his PhD in Sport & Exercise Science at the University of Essex; his research explored how exercise-induced muscle damage and the subsequent recovery may impact adherence to exercise. Rob has also worked as an embedded researcher at Essex County Council, evaluating the Essex Local Delivery Pilot, one of Sport England’s twelve funded pilots, looking to take a whole systems approach to build healthier and more active communities. Rob has developed a diverse set of research skills and experience while working across these sectors, including using a variety of methods to explore from a cellular level all the way along to behaviour change.

Rob has a passion for physical activity and how it can provide wide ranging benefits to the health & wellbeing. This has led to him having interests in two main research areas: Firstly, in how whole systems approaches can be used to increase population levels of physical activity and the wider benefits this may provide for health & wellbeing. Secondly, how individuals respond to conventional exercise activities and how this may influence engagement with further sport and physical activity.