Rate My Professor Lauren Sherar

Professor Sherar’s research specializations encompass device-assessed physical activity and sedentary behaviour, child growth and development, obesity, pragmatic public health interventions, and implementation science. She has contributed significantly to the field, with over 13,000 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include “Moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents” (JAMA, 2012; cited over 1,640 times), “Standardized use of the terms ‘sedentary’ and ‘sedentary behaviours’” (2012; cited over 1,541 times), “Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in youth: the International children’s accelerometry database (ICAD)” (2015; cited over 1,076 times), and “Global prevalence of physical activity for children and adolescents” (2021; cited 297 times). She is a member of the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Working Group, ProPASS Working Group, NIHR Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) LIGHT Team, and investigator on projects including Generation H, the Learning Network for Advanced Behavioural Data Analysis (LABDA), and the Leicestershire Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC). Her work emphasizes translating research into practice and policy to enhance physical activity and health outcomes, particularly in children and young people across schools, communities, and clinical settings.