We shape and are shaped by our city. Our Born in Bradford children explain how we use our data youtu.be/IUJCX9yZw1Q Prof Rosie McEachan 🇪🇺 Liam JB Hill, PhD @kersten_england @PhilWitcherley Jeremy Farrar Winifred Robinson

S3: Next up is Lucy Eddy presenting her systematic review on “Exploring the Validity and Reliability of Observational Assessment Tools Used to Measure Fundamental Movement Skills in School-Age Children” #UKIMOVE2020

Really enjoyed #UKIMOVE2020 today. Had some interesting discussions about the results of our systematic review and implications for assessing childhood FMS Liam JB Hill, PhD Dr Daniel Bingham Kirsty Crossley

Can we use #datascience to make an *actual* difference to the lives of people in Bradford? We don’t know but are going to give it our best - kicking off today with #ActEarlyHolmeWood Centre for Applied Education Research The Alan Turing Institute CityOfResearch

Teacher training x2 ✅ Testing the fundamental movement skills of ~540 children in 7 days ⏳

Do you want to research the impact Early Years programs can have on child development, particular in cases of premature birth? We have just the PhD for you! Apply to work with NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC Cheti Nicoletti The Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research Alison Heppenstall @nickmalleson here: findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Thank you for an excellent research presentation from Faisal Mushtaq. Some striking historical data visualizations and encouraging insights into possibilities for future positive societal impact through harnessing new technologies. #DataPerspectives

Please read the announcement below about home visits for our studies. If you have any questions please call us 01274 364474 or email [email protected]

Due to #coronavirus, our weekly lab meeting and presentation is going virtual! Keep it up everyone Faisal Mushtaq Ryan Morehead Ahmed Balkhoyor أحمد بالخيور Sophia Batchelor @paulobaniqued University of Leeds University of Leeds Immersive Technologies @LeedsPsyc Dr Em Williams

We've taken the sad but inevitable decision to cancel this year's Working Memory Discussion Meeting (originally scheduled for late June). Hopefully we'll be back on around the same time of year in 2021.

amongst so much bleakness, I forgot to share the news that 3 (yes, three!) Immersive Cognition Lab Grad students successfully defended their theses on Monday afternoon! Congratulations Jack Brookes Zeynep Uludag Israa Mirghani *no touching virtual high fives!*)

& many thanks to @GaleaLab Raymond Holt Igor Schindler Amanda Waterman @JelenaHavelka Upen Patel for acting as examiners at such a challenging time.

If you’re on look-out for non-covid news check TechXplore ini_fadelli on our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded “human like computing” programme where we explore how to endow robots with the action selection & execution abilities of humans Immersive Cognition Lab University of Leeds Immersive Technologies techxplore.com/news/2020-03-h… 1/3

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Regrettably, the PsyPAG Annual Conference 2020 will now not be taking place in @LeedsPsyc. Instead, we will be hosting a one-day FREE virtual PsyPAG Conference that will be held as a Twitter takeover on Friday 31st July. 1/5

#RamadanMubarak We hope everyone who enters into this period of reflection and spiritual renewal stays healthy, safe and united - despite the current challenges we face. ❤️

Some early clues coming from our community surveys CityOfResearch

Really interesting work by my colleague Dr Daniel Bingham Stand Out in Class: restructuring the classroom environment to reduce sitting time – findings from a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial ⁦⁩ ⁦tagtiv8⁩ ⁦Andy Daly-Smith⁩ ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations Dr Atkinson 🎉🎓

A massive thank-you to Daniel Divine who has made our team face visors so that we can continue to run the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT Glucose Tolerance Test clinic for pregnant women! A very good model in John Wright

Just accepted in Psychology of Sport and Exercise: The effect of a virtual reality environment on gaze behaviour and motor skill learning psyarxiv.com/yke6c Excellent work by Jack Brookes and PACLab in developing the golf sim used in this study