March 11, 2019

New Class Announcement: Embodied Anatomy and the Sitting Disease Epidemic

SBRN member Jim Freda is teaching a new class starting this Spring—April—at two locations in the PCC system. Each class will address a different area of […]
February 28, 2019

Use of the activPALTM in a hot and humid place

Today’s article comes from the research team of Professor Stephen Heung-Sang Wong. More about the team can be found at the bottom of this post. This […]
January 30, 2019

SBRN Newsletter – January 30, 2019

In this issue… Do you have a colleague who is interested in sedentary behaviour? JSGS Population Health Policy Lab is funding cutting edge active living research. […]
January 17, 2019

SBRN membership survey results

In October of 2018, the Sedentary Behaviour Research Network disseminated a survey to determine member satisfaction, receive feedback on how to improve the SBRN website and […]
September 26, 2018

Limiting children’s recreational screen time to less than two hours a day linked to better cognition

Only one in 20 US children in the study met the full recommended guidelines on recreational screen time, physical activity and sleep. Limiting recreational screen time […]
October 3, 2017

October Issue of WellSpring Features SBRN Terminology Consensus Project

The October issue of the Alberta Centre for Active Living’s WellSpring publication features an article on the SBRN Terminology Consensus Project titled, “New sedentary behaviour definitions: […]
September 1, 2017

Just Stand Up

SBRN member Nizar Abdul Majeed Kutty has written an article titled, “Just stand up,” that was recently published in The Star (Malaysia) and which discusses the […]
August 28, 2017

SBRN Terminology Consensus Project Well-Received According to Altmetric Analysis

Altmetrics are “metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. They can include (but are not limited to) peer reviews on Faculty of […]
July 12, 2017

SBRN Terminology Consensus Project PowerPoint Presentation

When the SBRN Terminology Consensus Project was released on Saturday, June 10th, 2017, several of the lead researchers on the project made presentations at a symposium […]