Scholarship focus
Motor competence is foundational to healthy physical development and wellbeing across the life course. Children with poorer fine and gross motor skills, coordination and hand-eye control may experience challenges with reading and writing, participation in play and sports, and behaviour.
Too many children, particularly those experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage or additional vulnerability, including special educational needs or health-related barriers to participation, lack access to high-quality, inclusive physical activity provision. These inequalities increase the risk that motor competence difficulties affect participation, behaviour, and wellbeing across developmental trajectories.
Applicants should develop a research proposal with the focus of examining how motor competence and physical activity shape children’s wellbeing. You are encouraged to consider how inclusive physical activity and motor competence interventions can be embedded across education, community and health settings, and how such approaches can support children’s wellbeing.
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