Dr Laura Brocklebank
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Laura Brocklebank
PhD
Senior Researcher
Laura is a senior researcher in the Wearables Group led by Professor Aiden Doherty at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on introducing wearables into large-scale epidemiological cohorts to explore the role of 24-hour movement behaviours and the environments in which they occur in health and wellbeing.
Prior to joining Oxford in July 2024, Laura was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL where she introduced accelerometry into two large-scale nationally representative epidemiological cohorts of older adults – the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) – to explore the role of physical activity and sleep in cognitive ageing and dementia in England and China.
Laura was awarded her PhD in 2017 from the University of Bristol. Her research involved using accelerometers and continuous glucose monitors to examine the associations between sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic health in adults.