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This interactive workshop demonstrates how academic-practice partnerships can help translate physical activity research into actionable public communications.

We are exploring public perceptions of these messages across different population groups to bridge the gap between guidelines and real-world motivation.

Partnering with Public Health Scotland, we (researchers from the University of Edinburgh) are conducting an ESRC-funded project that uses the PAMF to create Scotland-specific messages aimed at enhancing public motivation and reducing inactivity.

The PAMF, introduced in 2021, aids in developing targeted, co-produced messages rather than relying solely on guidelines. While the UK released updated physical activity guidelines in 2021, no accompanying messages were developed, highlighting a crucial gap.

This emphasised eight systems including Active Communications. A key action here is applying the Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) to create effective physical activity messages.

Physical inactivity significantly increases the risk of non-communicable diseases, leading to around 3,000 deaths annually in Scotland. To address this, the Scottish Government launched the "Physical Activity for Health: Scotland’s National Framework" in October 2024.

Presenters will give an outline of the development of the charts, reflecting on the collaborative working process. There will then be the opportunity for attendees to discuss the potential utility of the charts and provide any feedback for future editions.

The recent Physical Activity for Health National Framework presents a range of indicators to monitor prevalence and progress. Finding local level data often involves searching multiple different reports and websites. We have analysed and collated data at Local Authority level

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If more of us can become proficient in using GGIR then harmonised physical activity estimates can be incorporated into evidence such as prevalence levels and associations with health.

The open-source nature means that researchers and others can share their R scripts and aid each other with data processing problems. If you don’t know how to use R, that’s ok because GGIR has been made to be user-friendly.

As technology advances the use of accelerometers becomes more affordable and available to researchers and others conducting studies relating to measuring physical activity. GGIR can be installed in R and is free of cost, unlike more commonly used programmes such as ActiLife.

The aim of this workshop is to explore the practical application of the 'strength' component of the UK physical activity guidelines.

What complicates this even more is variability regarding prescription for key groups across the lifespan and insufficient appropriately qualified personnel to deliver this mode of activity.

Despite best efforts, strength training is still classified as the ‘forgotten guideline’ in the UK physical activity guidelines, although there are countless benefits. There could be many reasons, but the guidelines are quite vague regarding prescription which is problematic.

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