Chief investigator:
Dr Ruth Kipping, Associate Professor of Public Health
Trial managers:
Kim Hannam
Trial co-ordinator:
Megan Pardoe
Research site managers:
Bristol – Tom Reid, Megan Pardoe and Guillaume Livera
Glasgow – Dr Anne Martin (Research Fellow), Dr Stephanie Chambers (Research Fellow), Susan Stratton, Cassie Wu
Birmingham – Dr Marie Murphy and Alex Dobell
Project administrator:
Esther Kissane-Webb
Senior Research Associate:
Jemima Cooper
Trial Management Group (TMG):
Trail Management Group (TMG):
The TMG monitors all aspects of the progress of the trial. The TMG members have expertise in public health, paediatrics, nutrition, statistics, economic evaluation of complex interventions, and qualitative and quantitative experience in the evaluation of randomised control trials. The TMG for the trial is made up of the following members:
Dr Ruth Kipping (Chief Investigator and Chair), Consultant Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Bristol
Dr Miranda Pallan, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, University of Birmingham
Professor Sharon Simpson, Professor of Behavioural Sciences and Health, University of Glasgow
Professor Laurence Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council/Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Dr James White, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Cardiff University
Dr Beki Langford, Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol
Professor Dianne Ward, Professor of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor William Hollingworth, Professor of Health Economics, University of Bristol
Professor Russ Jago, Professor of Paediatric Physical Activity & Public Health, University of Bristol
Professor Corby Martin, Director of the Ingestive Behaviour Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Centre
Professor Pete Blair, Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of Bristol
Dr Zoi Toumpakari, Lecturer in Nutrition and Behaviour Change, University of Bristol
Dr Laura Johnson, Director of the Centre for Health Research, NatCen
Trial Steering Committee (TSC):
The TSC provides independent expert oversight of the trial on behalf of its Sponsor (Bristol University’s Research and Enterprise Development (RED)) and its Funder (NIHR Public Health Research Programme). Through its independent Chair, it also provides advice to the Trial Management Group (TMG), the Funder and the Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration (BRTC). Members are:
Professor Ashley Adamson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition and NIHR Research Professor, Newcastle University
Dr Mark Kelson, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, University of Exeter
Professor Stuart Fairclough, Professor of Physical Activity Education, Edge Hill University
Professor Stavros Petrou, Professor of Health Economics, University of Oxford
Dr Ruth Kipping, Chief Investigator, University of Bristol
Professor Pete Blair, (Attending, not member) Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of Bristol