About
Dr Emily Marchant is a researcher in the field of child health and education.
Dr Emily Marchant is a researcher in the field of child health and education.
Emily currently teaches on BSc Population Data Science, MSc Public Health and MA Childhood Studies.
Emily’s research focusses on primary school-aged children and examines the relationship between epidemiological factors and lifestyle behaviours with educational outcomes using data linkage. She also evaluates school-based interventions and has previously published evaluation research on outdoor learning and The Daily Mile. During Emily’s PhD, she developed and expanded the HAPPEN Wales primary school network to a national network that collects and shares school-level health behaviour information with schools.