Meet the PLAYCE lab

The PLAY Spaces and Environments for Children’s Physical Activity (PLAYCE) cohort was established to investigate how movement behaviours change over early to late childhood, across key behaviour settings and relationships with health and development.

Our team have comprehensively measured movement behaviours, their determinants and the link with health and development outcomes in a representative sample of over 2000 children aged 2-5 years old. We have followed up the cohort in their first year of full-time primary school (aged 5-7 years), and again at ages 8-10 and 11-14 years. 

The findings are used to inform national and international 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and behaviour setting-specific as well as population-level interventions to benefit child health and wellbeing across early to late childhood.