Dr Hayes' recent research has focussed on people living with chronic conditions and how those conditions can be monitored and improved, often using an mHealth approach. Another area of Dr Hayes' research is to develop targeted exercise approaches to enhance health and prevent disease. Primarily, he is interested in how exercise influences health and has interests in endocrinology, exercise biochemistry, high intensity interval training (HIIT), meta-science, and nutrition.
£11,000 as PI: RS Macdonald Charitable Trust: Institutional seedcorn award (2022)
£500: Physiological Society: Institutional engagement award (2022)
£500,000: 80% FEC as CoI: NIHR: Long COVID - Using activity tracking and just-in-time messaging to improve adaptive pacing: A pragmatic randomised control trial (2021)
£298,000: 80% FEC as CoI: Chief Scientists Office: Tracking persistent symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS) (2021)
£129,000: 80% FEC as CoI: Chief Scientists Office: The ABC (anxiety, health behaviour, and cognition) of social distancing and isolation: Evaluating the role of technology in remote support (2020)
£84,00 as CoI: Nesta connected communities innovation fund (2018)
£300,000 as PI: MET2020 equipment grant (2014)
External examiner experience:
- University of South Wales – MSc/PG Dip Sports & Exercise Medicine external examiner: 2021-2025.
- Oxford Brookes University – Sport and Exercise Science (BSc) external examiner: 2020-2024.
- University of Wales – Sport and Health (BSc); PE, Sport, and Physical Literacy (MA) external examiner: 2017-2020.
PhD: 'Evaluation of Salivary Testosterone in Exercise and Ageing' supervised by Prof Fergal Grace, Prof Nicholas Sculthorpe, and Prof Julien Baker (2014): University of the West of Scotland
MSc: Exercise Physiology (2009): Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc (Hons): Exercise and Sports Science (2008): Manchester Metropolitan University
