Rate My Professor Andy Daly-Smith

Daly-Smith's research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of behaviour change interventions for physical activity and health in children, with emphasis on practice-driven approaches, whole-school systems change, physically active learning, executive function, academic performance, and child health. He led the co-development of the Creating Active Schools framework, the first UK-based whole-school physical activity model co-created with 50 regional, national, and international stakeholders, now widely adopted across the UK to drive systems change. Key publications include 'Implementing physically active learning: Future directions for research, policy, and practice' (Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2020), 'Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence' (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021), 'Reframing physically active learning as movement-centred pedagogy: a European priority action framework' (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023), 'Assessing the Impacts of Creating Active Schools on Organisational Culture for Physical Activity' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022), and 'Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Whole-System Intervention to Increase the Physical Activity of Children Aged 5 to 11 Years (Join Us: Move Play, JU:MP): Protocol for a Quasiexperimental Trial' (JMIR Research Protocols, 2023). His contributions extend to leading WHO reports on physical activity in schools and influencing Ofsted recommendations.