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Overview

Jim McKenna is affiliated with Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with particular focus on Social Psychology, Physiology, General Health Professions, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work emphasizes topics including Physical Activity and Health, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Sport Psychology and Performance, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Children's Physical and Motor Development, Sports Performance and Training, and Physical Education and Pedagogy.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Using a multi-stakeholder experience-based design process to co-develop the Creating Active Schools Framework (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • A whole system approach to increasing children's physical activity in a multi-ethnic UK city: a process evaluation protocol (2021), BMC Public Health
  • Physical activity promotion interventions in chronic airways disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023), European Respiratory Review
  • Psychosocial outcomes associated with soccer academy involvement: Longitudinal comparisons against aged matched school pupils (2020), Journal of Sports Sciences
  • The Conforming, The Innovating and The Connecting Teacher: A qualitative study of why teachers in lower secondary school adopt physically active learning (2021), Teaching and Teacher Education

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McKenna include:

  • Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou
  • Andy Daly-Smith
  • Sergio Lara-Bercial
  • Anna Puig-Ribera
  • Oliver J. Wilson

Key publication venues featuring McKenna's work are:

  • Sports
  • Preprints.org
  • BMC Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Youth

Best Publications

  • Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport.

    Stephen Cobley;Joseph Baker;Nick Wattie;Jim McKenna

  • Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding

    James J. McKenna;Thomas McDade

  • Bedsharing Promotes Breastfeeding

    James J. McKenna;Sarah S. Mosko;Christopher A. Richard

  • Physical activity and mental well-being in older people participating in the Better Ageing Project

    Kenneth R. Fox;Afroditi Stathi;Jim McKenna;Mark G. Davis

  • Physical Activity and Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being in Older Adults

    Aphrodite Stathi;Kenneth R. Fox;James McKenna

  • Mother–infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: What biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine

    James J. McKenna;Helen L. Ball;Lee T. Gettler;Lee T. Gettler

  • Infant-parent co-sleeping in an evolutionary perspective: implications for understanding infant sleep development and the sudden infant death syndrome.

    James J. McKenna;Evelyn B. Thoman;Thomas F. Anders;Abraham Sadeh

  • Infant Arousals During Mother-Infant Bed Sharing: Implications for Infant Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research

    Sarah Mosko;Christopher Richard;James McKenna

  • Systematic review of acute physically active learning and classroom movement breaks on children's physical activity, cognition, academic performance and classroom behaviour: understanding critical design features.

    Andy J Daly-Smith;Stephen Zwolinsky;Jim McKenna;Phillip D Tomporowski

  • The School and Promotion of Children’s Health-Enhancing Physical Activity: Perspectives from the United Kingdom

    Kenneth R. Fox;Ashley Cooper;James McKenna

  • Barriers to physical activity promotion by general practitioners and practice nurses.

    J McKenna;P J Naylor;N McDowell

  • Using a multi-stakeholder experience-based design process to co-develop the Creating Active Schools Framework

    Andy Daly-Smith;Andy Daly-Smith;Andy Daly-Smith;Thomas Quarmby;Victoria S. J. Archbold;Nicola Corrigan

  • Stressors and Coping Strategies among Early and Middle Adolescent Premier League Academy Soccer Players: Differences According to Age

    Clive W. Reeves;Adam R. Nicholls;Jim McKenna

  • Maternal sleep and arousals during bedsharing with infants.

    S Mosko;C Richard;J McKenna

  • Do walking strategies to increase physical activity reduce reported sitting in workplaces: a randomized control trial

    Nicholas D Gilson;Anna Puig-Ribera;Jim McKenna;Wendy J Brown

  • The Evolution of Allomothering Behavior Among Colobine Monkeys: Function and Opportunism in Evolution

    James J. McKenna

  • Sleep and arousal patterns of co‐sleeping human mother/infant pairs: A preliminary physiological study with implications for the study of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

    James J. McKenna;Sarah Mosko;Claibourne Dungy;Jan McAninch

  • An anthropological perspective on the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): The role of parental breathing cues and speech breathing adaptations

    James J. McKenna

  • Self-reported sitting time and physical activity: interactive associations with mental well-being and productivity in office employees

    Anna Puig-Ribera;Iván Martínez-Lemos;Maria Giné-Garriga;Ángel Manuel González-Suárez

  • Infant sleep architecture during bedsharing and possible implications for SIDS

    Sarah Mosko;Christopher Richard;James McKenna;Sean Drummond

Frequent Co-Authors

J. D. Richman
J. D. Richman University of California, Santa Barbara
A. Seiden
A. Seiden University of California, Santa Cruz
B. N. Ratcliff
B. N. Ratcliff Stanford University
T. Schalk
T. Schalk University of California, Santa Cruz
D. Kirkby
D. Kirkby University of California, Irvine
M. L. Perl
M. L. Perl Stanford University
A. Roodman
A. Roodman Stanford University
D. G. Hitlin
D. G. Hitlin California Institute of Technology
R. Waldi
R. Waldi University of Rostock

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