Working across ukactive’s strategic pillars, Matthew promotes and supports best practice for data collection, analysis, and reporting ensuring an evidence-based approach to practice and policy. Matthew has extensive experience of physical activity-based research and evaluation across various populations. This involves the design and delivery of research and evaluation projects on behalf of numerous local authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups, charities, physical activity providers, governing bodies and large brands. Examples include leading on the design, implementation and reporting of the Scottish Care Inspectorate’s Care about Physical Activity programme, the ‘Sense, Active Together’ programme, Buckinghamshire County Council’s Active Bucks initiative, Essex County Council’s commissioning of Let's Get Moving. Matthew is experienced in collecting short-term as well as longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data and in designing bespoke questionnaires using appropriate, well-established and veracious measures. Matthew’s PhD thesis provided an evaluation of a community-based intervention grounded in Motivational Interviewing that aimed to improve physical activity and mental wellbeing. For details of Matthew’s peer-reviewed publications, please visit –: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Wade4

Working across ukactive’s strategic pillars, Matthew promotes and supports best practice for data collection, analysis, and reporting ensuring an evidence-based approach to practice and policy. Matthew has extensive experience of physical activity-based research and evaluation across various populations. This involves the design and delivery of research and evaluation projects on behalf of numerous local authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups, charities, physical activity providers, governing bodies and large brands. Examples include leading on the design, implementation and reporting of the Scottish Care Inspectorate’s Care about Physical Activity programme, the ‘Sense, Active Together’ programme, Buckinghamshire County Council’s Active Bucks initiative, Essex County Council’s commissioning of Let's Get Moving. Matthew is experienced in collecting short-term as well as longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data and in designing bespoke questionnaires using appropriate, well-established and veracious measures. Matthew’s PhD thesis provided an evaluation of a community-based intervention grounded in Motivational Interviewing that aimed to improve physical activity and mental wellbeing. For details of Matthew’s peer-reviewed publications, please visit –: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Wade4

Matthew is a specialist researcher with expertise in research and evaluation data collection and report writing. He manages a four tiered evaluation approach including data collection, analysis and reporting. This approach allows different segmentation of data across target groups, different areas, and between activities. He is experienced in collecting short-term as well as longitudinal data and in designing bespoke questionnaires using appropriate, well-established, and veracious measures.

Matthew is a Research Officer at the ukactive Research Institute. His role focuses on the original research and evaluation of physical activity interventions, as well as supporting on all projects across the ukactive Research Institute. Matthew currently leads on the evaluation of Buckinghamshire County Council’s physical activity initiative ‘Active Bucks’, which looks to increase physical activity levels across the county, as well as working closely with ukactive’s Let’s Get Moving project providing research and evaluation expertise. In addition, Matthew also supports on the large scale evaluation of Coca-Cola ParkLives, a free initiative which aims to get one million people active in local parks and green space by 2020, and the training of health care professionals to deliver a primary care based intervention to increase physical activity levels and positively change behaviour.

Matthew took a key role on the second phase of the Physical Activity Promising Practice Collation project, a piece of work commissioned by Public Health England, by providing individualised feedback to 952 programmes and interventions across the country. During this Matthew gained an excellent working knowledge of the Nesta Standards of Evidence and the requirements needed to meet each level. As part of the ukactive Research Institute Matthew provides support and input on all research projects.

First point of contact in a large, busy University learning centre providing support to students and academic staff. Duties included issues, returns, process new stock, re-shelving and room booking. The role involved important communicating with staff and students via telephone and email.