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Kerry Mummery
Professor of Physical Activity and Health Promotion
Director, Centre for Social Science Research
Central Queensland University, Australia

Research interests

Kerry Mummery's research interests include the study of many aspects relating to health-related physical activity. Kerry is the architect behind the 10,000 Step program running in Australia (www.10000steps.org.au). The award winning project began as a whole-of-community health promotion project in 2001 and has now been adopted across the state of Queensland as well as interstate in Australia. Kerry is also the Director of the Centre for Social Science Research (www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/cssr/) at Central Queensland University, and has operated the Population Research Laboratory, a large-scale Computer-Assisted-Telephone-Interview (CATI) lab since 1999. The PRL conducts two annual omnibus surveys - the Central Queensland Social Survey and the Queensland Social Survey - which are omnibus surveys, open to university and community researchers to gather information from a representative sample of their population of interest.

Recent health-related publications

Joyner, K. & Mummery. W.K. (In Press - 2005) Contextual and motivational influences on sportspersonship orientations. Youth Studies Australia.

Schofield, G.M., Schofield, L., & Mummery, K. (In Press - 2005) Active transportation: an important part of adolescent physical activity. Youth Studies Australia

Schofield G, Mummery K, Steele R. (In Press - 2005) Dog ownership and human health-related physical activity: an epidemiological study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Current grants

Mummery & Schofield (2004-2005) 10,000 Step Teens - A multi-strategy physical activity intervention for adolescent school-goers TELSTRA Community Grant Foundation $60,000.00 (over 2 years)

Mummery, Brown & Eakin (2004-2005) 10,000 Steps A Day: A community-based initiative for the promotion of physical activity Queensland Health - Public Health $165,000.00

Brown, Mummery, Eakin, Trost & Abernethy (2001-2003) 10,000 Steps A Day: A community-based initiative for the promotion of physical activity Health Promotion Queensland $880,000.00 (over 2 years)

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Affiliated Staff Directory

Kerry Mummery Professor of Physical Activity and Health Promotion Director, Centre for Social Science Research Central Queensland University, Australia

Research interests

Recent health-related publications

Current grants

Kerry Mummery
Professor of Physical Activity and Health Promotion
Director, Centre for Social Science Research
Central Queensland University, Australia