Promoting physical activity for children: consultation on the evidence

PhD Studentship: Can pedometer strategies improve the effectiveness of the MEND family intervention programme for overweight/obese children in Worcestershire?

Compared with older generations, current young adults in Ireland played more sport as children and are continuing to play more as adults. Gaelic games are in relative decline participation is merely steady, while for most other sports it is growing substantially.

PhD Research Studentship: Globalisation and Sport

Second genetic link to weight and obesity

Adolescents who defy the trends and choose to exercise

Just 20 minutes of exercise per week can boost your mental health and help lift depression and anxiety, a new study suggests

Welcome to The Energy Project - A creative journey to active and energise girls in schools

Schools Energy Audit - Final Report

Three-year research project hopes to identify the reasons that many 11 to 15-year-old girls avoid sports.

Men who regularly read ‘lads’ magazines’ are increasingly obsessive about their body image resulting in them doing excessive exercise and possibly taking steroids to improve their physique

Exercise dependence, self-esteem and identity reinforcement: A comparison of three universities in the United Kingdom

The experience of community sport development: a case study of Blaenau Gwent

People who exercise more in their free time appear to be biologically younger than their more sedentary counterparts.

Acne may prevent people from participating in sport and exercise

PhD Studentship:Tackling Social Inclusion Issues in North-East England through Sport

Do you have to pay for a sporting chance? State schools are playing less sport, independents, more.

PhD Studentship: Physical Activity Levels in the UK

The Scout Association: A study of attitudes and behaviour to inform the development and promotion of outdoor activities

Know the Score 2008 - The Positive impact of the Sports College Network. Youth Sport Trust Report

The Measurement and Interpretation of Children's Physical Activity

Obesity in Young People - School incentives to take up more physical exercise proved elusive

KORFBALL - is a mixed team ball game

KORFBALL - British Korfball Association

KORFBALL - International Korfball Federation

KORFBALL - Scorpions Korfball Club

DISC SPORTS - Catch the spirit

DISC SPORTS - Discology: disc sport

DISC SPORTS - UK Ultimate Association

DISC SPORTS - DISC SPORTS UK

DISC SPORTS - World Flying Disc Federation

DISC SPORTS - AIRBADGERS one of the best school teams

ORIENTEERING - British Schools Orienteering Association

ORIENTEERING - Trail Orienteering

ORIENTEERING - Ozone

ORIENTEERING - World Schools Championship Orienteering 21-27 April 2008

ORIENTEERING - Year 8 Starter Quiz

ORIENTEERING - British Schools Champions 2007

INDOOR ROWING - The Amateur Rowing Association

INDOOR ROWING - The Concept2 Indoor Rower

INDOOR ROWING - National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships

INDOOR ROWING - Know the Game book

INDOOR ROWING - The Sir Steve Redgrave Website

INDOOR ROWING - English Indoor Rowing Championship

DANCE - Using dance to raise young people's self-esteem

DANCE - National Youth Dance Festival 2008

DANCE - The Health Benefits of Creative Dance: improving children's physical and psychological wellbeing

DANCE - Cumbria ACE Dance Festival & Toolkit for Schools

DANCE - The National Dance Teachers Association

DANCE - Dance for Life 2008

DANCE - LABAN

Fit to Succeed

School Cricket Survey

Fit to Succeed survey demo - if you were a young person you would try it out and get an assessment of how fit to succeed you are

South Derbyshire Youth and Junior Needs Surveys

Fit to Succeed

Exercise to calories counter and Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator

Taking Part: The National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport - released May 2007. and... Chapter 8 - Active Sport
and... Headline findings from the child survey

Fit to Succeed

2007 School Sport Survey: Schools tell us about the levels of participation in PE and school sport in partnership schools

Young People into 2007 - Pupils tell us about their enjoyment and participation in exercise and sport

Physiology of Sport and Exercise-4th Edition

Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts By Ellis Cashmore

The Lady Footballers - Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain By James Lee

Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour - Smith & Biddle

The comic strip history of Man Utd drawn by former Roy of the Rovers illustrator Bob Bond

The Cricket Quiz Book

The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC: Athens to Beijing, 1894–2008 by David Miller

Safe Practice - everything you need to know about safety in physical education and school sport.

Junior Athletics for Playground and Field - Jim Hall

Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts - Ellis Cashmore

The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies

The 'Know the Game' series of books

Sport and Society: Second Edition

Culture, Politics and Sport - Blowing the Whistle, Revisited

In Pursuit of Excellence:A Student Guide to Elite Sports Development, by Michael Hill. Published May 2007

The 'Know the Game' series of books

Pure Sport: Practical Sport Psychology, by John Kremer, Aidan P. Moran. Published January 2008

Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology, Edited by Mark Beauchamp & Mark Eys. Published December 2007

Cotswold School Sports Partnership

Holgate School Sports Partnership

Tunbridge Wells School Sports Partnership

Tameside School Sports Partnership

Southern Warwickshire School Sport Partnership

Toynbee School Sport Partnership

King Edward VII School Sports Partnership - West Norfolk

Ashington School Sports Partnership - Northumberland

Corby, Oundle and Thrapston School Sports Partnership

Cambridge School Sports Partnership

Sport and physical activity in London

West Yorkshire Sport

Hertfordshire Sports workshops/courses

Safeguarding Young People and Vulnerable Adults in Sport and Exercise Science

Sports Coach UK workshops in your region

Herts Sports Partnership 2008/2009 Workshop Programme

Sport England events

National workshops in Sports and Exercise Sciences

Supporting sport & physical activity in London

West Yorkshire sport courses

Dance Workshop Weekends

Play and health: Investigating the links

Manchester and Newcastle - Increasing Children’s Physical Activity through School and Sports Clubs: Take Home Messages for Practitioners

Regional - Sports Coach Workshops

Sport Leeds Seminar 2008 - 'Creating sporting pathways'

Build a brighter future for young people through sport

Are you interested in asking a successful athlete to visit your school / organisation?

Buy once give twice: supporting sports and other charities

"Fit for girls" - A new drive in Scotland to get teenage girls involved in physical activity

FE, volunteering and sport

Green gym for the community

Rugby will be used in Caerphilly to tackle bad behaviour among teenagers at risk of offending

Mentor supporting positive alternatives and the drug free buzz!

First Female Footballers celebrate an Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence Qualification

New apprenticeship in athletics for 2012 Olympic hopefuls

Bike to school week

Dame Kelly Holmes - the official website

Olympic Stadium school study announced: a review to explore the possibility of establishing a school at the Olympic stadium site after the 2012 Games.

Brooksbank School's first girls' team: a scoring success

Loughborough launches first women’s centre of cricket excellence

Become a Sports Leader

School knee injuries in the US compared by sport and gender: While boys had a higher overall rate of knee injury, girls' knee injuries were more severe.

In Portugal, females may reduce much of their physical activity during late adolescence

US Children & Adolescent Overuse Injuries: The Neglected Pandemic?

In France, obese boys are better off doing less intensive exercise if they are to shed the pounds effectively
and...Article

Physically active older teenagers in Canada don’t necessarily eat a healthier diet than their less-active contemporaries.

Changing the American school environment curbs weight gain in children

Don't worry, be (moderately) happy, American research suggests

Gender-integrating sport helps improve men’s attitudes toward women, US study shows

The weekly volume and types of physical activity in young Aussie basketball players injured and not injured during the season

In the US, gymnastics has one of the highest injury rates of all girls' sports.

Older US adolescents who have a television where they sleep are less likely to engage in healthy activities

Questions from American teenagers and answers related to sports

Swedish study links daily fast-food consumption, no exercise to liver damage

American parents of overweight children often do not see their child as overly heavy and the children can have poor diet and exercise habits.

A forgotten story: The training for teachers of physical education in Italy during the fascist period

American Berkshire Publishing Group - For a limited time Berkshire is offering full-text online access to some of its bestselling titles.

Spark by John J. Ratey - An investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain

Physical Education and active play help US teenagers maintain normal weight as adults

Help your heart with exercise...and booze: Moderate drinkers are at 30% lower risk of heart disease than teetotallers, according to a Dutch study of nearly 12,000 people. And those who combine a mild tipple with regular exercise are even less likely to die of the disease.

Video games good as exercise: New Zealand study

From the US: Irregular exercise pattern may add pounds: the key to staying trim is to remain active year-round, year-after-year, and to avoid seasonal and irregular exercise patterns...most of all, don’t quit

From Canada: An active school model to promote physical activity in elementary schools

Australian research has found that Probiotic supplements reduce the number and length of infections suffered by long-distance runners

From Canada: The effect of protective headgear on head injuries and concussions in adolescent football (soccer) players. Adolescent football players experience a significant number of concussions. Being female may increase the risk of suffering a concussion and injuries on the head and face, while the use of football headgear may decrease the risk of sustaining these injuries.

Low fitness levels are a strong predictor for cardiovascular disease risk factors in children independent of country, age and sex

The European youth heart study Independent associations of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness with metabolic risk factors in children

Physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Finnish youth

US - Young people's experiences in dance education

Australia - Non-specialist teachers' confidence to teach PE: the nature and influence of personal school experiences in PE