Richard Tyler

Richard Tyler is a Senior Lecturer in Children's Movement Behaviours and Health at Edge Hill University's Department of Sport and Physical Activity. He teaches on the Physical Education and School Sport programme and has held roles at Swansea University as a Lecturer and post-doc researcher. His research focuses on physical literacy, motor competence, and 24-hour movement behaviors in children. He leads major initiatives like the Swan-Linx programme and the Active Healthy Kids Wales Report Card. Current projects include validating a physical literacy questionnaire and investigating health inequalities in children.

Education: PhD from Swansea University (2018/19), BSc from University of Portsmouth (2013).

Research Interests: Physical literacy assessment, motor competence development, sleep/activity interactions, and public health interventions. Notable collaborations include work with Sport Wales and the Waterloo CoDA project.

Grants and Advising: Active in research funding and supervision of PhD students. His work appears in journals like Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport and PLoS One.

Labs/Teams: Co-Lead for the iCARE research strand at Edge Hill, member of the International Motor Development Research Consortium and ISBNPA.