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Q&A with Dr Shelley Keating, NHMRC Early Career Fellow within the UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

In this interview with ABC News, UQ's Dr Veronique Chachay explains that there is no one optimal diet.

Facilitating a physically active lifestyle and better social connectedness for Brisbane-based military veterans is the focus of a new program being trialled by researchers at The University of Queensland.

Each month we shine the spotlight on a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) student within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

The social isolation requirements of COVID-19 meant the HMNS Personal Training Service had to transition entirely online in the same year that the number of students in the program almost doubled.

A special issue, to be published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues in early 2021, examines relationships between blue spaces, sport, physical activity, and wellbeing.

The new NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Digestive Health will advance the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of chronic digestive diseases.

High-intensity interval training (HIIT) can help heart patients with their recovery and is more effective than moderate-intensity continuous training in the short term, according to University of Queensland research.

National Health and Physical Education (HPE) Day aims to raise awareness of, and advocate for, a greater focus of HPE in schools.

On 2nd September we celebrated National Health & Physical Education (HPE) Day so we caught up with Meg Wilkinson who is balancing her career as a HPE and Science Teacher with completing her PhD.  

An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take nine hours to present, but students in the UQ Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition present their thesis and its significance in dynamic and informative presentations of just three minutes in length.

Each month we shine the spotlight on a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) student within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

PhD students from the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences will compete in the virtual Faculty Final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition on Thursday 6 August.

Q&A with Dr Gabriela Mena, PhD candidate within the Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health (CRExPAH) at the UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences (HMNS).

A dietary fat supplement could improve the prognosis and quality of life for the 40 Australian children living with the incurable degenerative disease Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T).

Implementing exercise in the daily lives of women after reproductive cancer treatment and improving the quality of life of young Australians living with a congenital heart defect were among UQ projects awarded federal funding this week.

This month we are celebrating 'Exercise Right Week', so we caught up with PhD Candidate, Natalie Vear, who is conducting research in the area of exercise and cancer.

UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences researcher, Associate Professor Gary Osmond, has been awarded the 2019 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies. Dr Osmond, together with co-author Matthew Klugman (Victoria University) were awarded for their article which investigates possible reasons for the forgetting of a powerful image of Cathy Freeman running beneath Northcote’s Koori Mural of Aboriginal Elders in chains.

Health clubs around Australia are set to reopen between now and mid-June. But the gains women have made online might make them less inclined to return to the gym once restrictions ease.

From reducing the symptoms of depression and anxiety to improving self-esteem, the mental health benefits of keeping our bodies active are far-reaching.