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  1. An investigation into differences in general intelligence and coaches' subjective assessment of players' decision-making skills across different playing positions in EPPP association football academies

    Article • Human Studies, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  2. (In)action on the social and commercial determinants of health: a call to arms to push the agenda forward

    Article • Perspectives in Public Health, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rob Noonan

  3. Physical Activity Volume and Intensity for Healthy Body Mass Index and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Enhancing the Translation of Children's and Adolescents' Accelerometer Physical Activity Reference Values

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, August 2025, Wiley

    Dr Rob Noonan

  4. Accumulation of perceived discrimination over time and likelihood of probable mental health problems in UK adults: A longitudinal cohort study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  5. Extrinsic goals benefit capitalism but not well-being. Rethinking the economy’s goal for a healthier future

    Article • Health Promotion International, September 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rob Noonan

  6. What Are the Roots of the Nation’s Poor Health and Widening Health Inequalities? Rethinking Economic Growth for a Fairer and Healthier Future

    Article • Community Health Equity Research & Policy, June 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rob Noonan

  7. Changes in the prevalence of perceived discrimination and associations with probable mental health problems in the UK from 2015 to 2020: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Article • SSM - Population Health, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  8. Addressing the elephant in the room: economic growth and the nation’s poor health – changing the economy’s goal for a healthier future

    Article • Perspectives in Public Health, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rob Noonan

  9. Capitalism, Health and Wellbeing

    Article • April 2024, Emerald

    Dr Rob Noonan

  10. Restructuring Priorities: Rethinking Economic Growth for a More Active Future

    Article • Leisure Sciences, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  11. How can UK public health initiatives support each other to improve the maintenance of physical activity? Evidence from a cross-sectional survey of runners who move from Couch-to-5k to parkrun

    Article • Health Promotion International, October 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rob Noonan

  12. A qualitative study of how and why gym-based resistance training may benefit women's mental health and wellbeing

    Article • Performance Enhancement & Health, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  13. Prevalence of perceived discrimination and associations with mental health inequalities in the UK during 2019–2020: A cross-sectional study

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  14. Reference values for wrist-worn accelerometer physical activity metrics in England children and adolescents

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  15. The Influence of Adolescent Sport Participation on Body Mass Index Tracking and the Association between Body Mass Index and Self-Esteem over a Three-Year Period

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  16. The Physical Behaviour Intensity Spectrum and Body Mass Index in School-Aged Youth: A Compositional Analysis of Pooled Individual Participant Data

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  17. Motivations, perceptions and experiences of cycling for transport: A photovoice study

    Article • Journal of Transport & Health, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  18. Adolescent time use and mental health: a cross-sectional, compositional analysis in the Millennium Cohort Study

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2021, BMJ

    Dr Rob Noonan

  19. “It’s Just Not Something We Do at School”. Adolescent Boys’ Understanding, Perceptions, and Experiences of Muscular Fitness Activity

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  20. Family income matters! Tracking of habitual car use for school journeys and associations with overweight/obesity in UK youth

    Article • Journal of Transport & Health, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  21. Obesity, eating behavior and physical activity during COVID-19 lockdown: A study of UK adults

    Article • Appetite, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  22. Introduction to Physical Activity Measurement

    Article • April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  23. To what extent do unhealthy behaviour indicators explain the neighbourhood deprivation gradient in overweight among 11-year-old English children?

    Article • SSM - Population Health, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  24. Efficacy of School-Based Interventions for Improving Muscular Fitness Outcomes in Adolescent Boys: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Article • Sports Medicine, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  25. Calibration and Validation of the Youth Activity Profile as a Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Surveillance Tool for English Youth

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  26. The backwards comparability of wrist worn GENEActiv and waist worn ActiGraph accelerometer estimates of sedentary time in children

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  27. Investigating Adolescent Girls' Perceptions and Experiences of School‐Based Physical Activity to Inform the Girls' Peer Activity Intervention Study

    Article • Journal of School Health, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Rob Noonan

  28. Average acceleration and intensity gradient of primary school children and associations with indicators of health and well-being

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan, Stuart Fairclough

  29. Accelerometer and self-reported measures of sedentary behaviour and associations with adiposity in UK youth

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  30. Acceptability and Feasibility of Single-Component Primary School Physical Activity Interventions to Inform the AS:Sk Project

    Article • Children, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  31. Process evaluation of a pilot multi-component physical activity intervention – active schools: Skelmersdale

    Article • BMC Public Health, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  32. Prevalence of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Liverpool between 2006 and 2012: Evidence of Widening Socioeconomic Inequalities

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  33. Social Disadvantage, Maternal Psychological Distress, and Difficulties in Children’s Social-Emotional Well-Being

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  34. Measuring physical activity behaviours and outcomes in children and adults

    Article • October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  35. Cross-sectional associations between body mass index and social–emotional wellbeing among differentially active children

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, October 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rob Noonan

  36. Comparability of children’s sedentary time estimates derived from wrist worn GENEActiv and hip worn ActiGraph accelerometer thresholds

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rob Noonan

  37. The Feasibility and Acceptability of The Girls Peer Activity (G-PACT) Peer-led Mentoring Intervention

    Article • Children, September 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  38. Predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors for physical activity in boys and girls from socially disadvantaged communities

    Article • Health Education Journal, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rob Noonan

  39. The effect of childhood deprivation on weight status and mental health in childhood and adolescence: longitudinal findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    Article • Journal of Public Health, August 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rob Noonan

  40. Experiences of Sustainable Abstinence-Based Recovery: an Exploratory Study of Three Recovery Communities (RC) in England

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  41. Poverty, Weight Status, and Dietary Intake among UK Adolescents

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  42. The Feasibility of a Novel School Peer-Led Mentoring Model to Improve the Physical Activity Levels and Sedentary Time of Adolescent Girls: The Girls Peer Activity (G-PACT) Project

    Article • Children, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  43. Evaluation of a Pilot School-Based Physical Activity Clustered Randomised Controlled Trial—Active Schools: Skelmersdale

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  44. Converting between estimates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity derived from raw accelerations measured at the wrist and from ActiGraph counts measured at the hip: the Rosetta Stone

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan, Stuart Fairclough

  45. Is there a deprivation and maternal education gradient to child obesity and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    Article • Pediatric Obesity, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Rob Noonan

  46. Fitness, Fatness and Active School Commuting among Liverpool Schoolchildren

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  47. One Size Does Not Fit All: Contextualising Family Physical Activity Using a Write, Draw, Show and Tell Approach

    Article • Children, July 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  48. Predictors of Segmented School Day Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children from a Northwest England Low-Income Community

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Rob Noonan

  49. Context matters! sources of variability in weekend physical activity among families: a repeated measures study

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  50. Comparison of children’s free-living physical activity derived from wrist and hip raw accelerations during the segmented week

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  51. Moving Forward with Backward Compatibility

    Article • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, November 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Rob Noonan

  52. Parental perceptions on childrens out-of-school physical activity and family-based physical activity

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rob Noonan

  53. Write, draw, show, and tell: a child-centred dual methodology to explore perceptions of out-of-school physical activity

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rob Noonan

  54. Wear Compliance and Activity in Children Wearing Wrist- and Hip-Mounted Accelerometers

    Article • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, February 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Rob Noonan

  55. Cross-sectional associations between high-deprivation home and neighbourhood environments, and health-related variables among Liverpool children

    Article • BMJ Open, January 2016, BMJ

    Dr Rob Noonan