Professor Lauren Sherar is an internationally recognized researcher with over 170 publications, £13.6 million in external research funding and is currently the Dean of a School consistently ranked QS World No.1 for Sport‑Related Studies for a decade.

She specialises in physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health, with research focused on health and wellbeing, examining patterns, determinants and social inequities in movement behaviours among children, adolescents and underserved populations.

She was part of the founding of the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD), a 20‑year, 20‑partner international consortium that harmonised raw accelerometer and contextual data from over 37,000 young people across Europe, the US, Brazil and Australia. She is also a member of the Generation H team, a €3 million project addressing physical inactivity and unhealthy diets among adolescents in urban Ghana and Kenya to reduce future non‑communicable disease risk.