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Harnessing the draw of professional sports clubs to deliver improvements in health and wellbeing among at-risk groups

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Submitting institution
University of Glasgow
Unit of assessment
2 - Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
Summary impact type
Health
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Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014?
Yes
Underpinning research subjects
  • Clinical Sciences
  • Human Movement And Sports Science
  • Public Health And Health Services

1. Summary of the impact

2. Underpinning research

3. References to the research

4. Details of the impact

5. Sources to corroborate the impact

Additional contextual information

Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
1) CZG/2/504 £49,862
2) PHR/09/3010/06 £808,980
3) PHR/13/99/32 £338,162
4) 602170 £1,339,300
5) n/a £0
6) n/a £20,000
7) n/a £0
Countries
  • Scotland
  • England
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Hungary
  • Belgium
  • Norway
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
  • Canada
Formal partners
  • Scottish Professional Football League Trust
Funding programmes
  • 1) Grant: Can a gender-sensitised weight management programme delivered by Scottish Premier League Football Clubs help men lose weight? A feasibility study for a randomised closed trial. (August 2010 – June 2011)
  • 2) Grant: Football Fans in Training (FFIT): a randomized controlled trial of a gender-sensitive weight loss and healthy living programme delivered to men aged 35-65 by Scottish Premier League (SPL) football clubs. (June 2011–December 2013)
  • 3) Grant: Long term weight loss trajectories in participants in a randomised controlled trial of a weight management and healthy lifestyle programme for men delivered through professional football clubs: the Football Fans in Training follow up (2015–2016)
  • 4) FP7 collaborative small or medium scale research project (November 2013 – October 2018)
  • 5) confidential
  • 6) Philip Poole-Wilson Seedcorn Fund (July 2013 – June 2014)
  • 7) confidential
Global research identifiers
  • 1) grid.507548.b
  • 2) grid.451056.3
  • 3) grid.451056.3
  • 4) grid.270680.b
  • 5) grid.453696.b
  • 6) grid.453472.3
  • 7) n/a
Name of funders
  • 1) Chief Scientist Office
  • 2) National Institute for Health Research
  • 3) National Institute for Health Research
  • 4) European Commission
  • 5) Healthway (Australia)
  • 6) BUPA UK Foundation
  • 7) Premiership Rugby Limited (UK)
Researcher ORCIDs
  • 0000-0002-4295-6110
  • 0000-0002-7509-8247
  • 0000-0002-5873-3632
  • 0000-0001-6604-1305