On this week’s episode of the BERA podcast Nick Johnston (Chief Executive of BERA) interviews Dr. Emily Marchant from Swansea University. Emily’s research focuses on primary school-aged children and examines the relationship between epidemiological factors and lifestyle behaviours with educational outcomes, using data linkage. She also evaluates school-based interventions and has previously published evaluation research on outdoor learning and The Daily Mile. During Emily’s PhD, she developed and expanded the HAPPEN Wales Primary School Network to a national network that collects and shares school-level health behaviour information with schools.
On today’s episode Emily discusses the effect Covid 19 has had on children with a particular focus on their health and wellbeing, staff experiences and the potential future effects as schools return.
Chief Executive at British Educational Research Association
Nick has been the Chief Executive Officer at BERA since April 2012. He has a considerable background of management and advising on strategic direction in organisations concerned with public policy. Between 2004-7, he was the Director of Policy...
Research Assistant at Swansea University
Dr Emily Marchant from Swansea University. Emily’s research focuses on primary school-aged children and examines the relationship between epidemiological factors and lifestyle behaviours with educational outcomes, using data linkage. She also...