Deirdre Harrington
Senior Lecturer - Physical Activity and Health, University of StrathclydeDeirdre Harrington, PhD, is an experienced academic with a demonstrated history of working in higher education research in Ireland, the US, England and now Scotland. She has worked on and led health-related research projects with global teams since 2010 on childhood obesity, family-based type 2 diabetes prevention and physical activity advocacy.
As part of multi-disciplinary teams, she has received research funding from the NIHR Public Health Research programme, the European Commission, Wellcome Trust and the MRC Global Challenges fund. As a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, she now leads Strathclyde’s Active Mobility Hub.
This cross-discipline group of researchers and practitioners is co-researching the movement of people in place in Glasgow and beyond. The Hub is going from strength-to-strength and Deirdre has been energised by bringing her health behaviour change and intervention evaluation experience together with civil and environmental engineering within the Hub.
My Speaker Sessions
Wednesday 26 November 2025
High-Vis and High Impact: Engineering and Community Action In Active Travel
- Hear about how engineering, behaviour change and community action are being brought together in the active travel space in Glasgow.
- Learn about the development of an interdisciplinary research and practice hub
- Explore colourful examples of research looking at behaviour change through both a transport engineering and health behaviour change lens.
