Bronwyn Clark

Dr Clark's research into measuring sedentary behaviour has had broad national and international impact. Measures she developed on domain specific sitting were included for the first time in the 2011/12 Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle study (administered to 6182 people) and have been used in many international settings (Chile, Japan, USA, Malaysia). Additional ground-breaking innovations include developing measures of how sitting time is accumulated which have been taken up in workplace programs through the BeUpstanding program, (implemented in over 800 organisations across Australia). Her recent work has harnessed technological advances to identify context of sedentary and active behaviour resulting from collaborations across the fields of health, psychology, engineering and data science.

Dr Clark’s international leadership in the field of behaviour measurement resulted in her election as President of the International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour in 2020. She regularly delivers industry talks and has been asked to provide input into governmental strategy at the Healthy Queenslanders - Health and Wellbeing through physical activity consultation with Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works.