Richard Farrar
Lecturer In Life Sciences
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338248
- r.farrar@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Allied Health Sciences
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Richard is a part-time Senior Lecturer in the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Suffolk. He teaches and leads a number of modules on the School’s undergraduate programmes in the Life Sciences including BSc Nutrition and Human Health and BSc Biomedical Science. He is also Coordinator of the Foundation programme.
Richard also owns his own health and fitness business, which provides a range of personal and small group training services and consultancy to individuals and the private and public sector. This includes support for people to become and stay more physically active, exercise referral for those with health conditions, and exercise to support people living with and beyond cancer.
Richard is also a Senior Activity and Health Practitioner member of The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, and an Alliance Member of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Richard has extensive teaching and course leadership experience, developed over twenty years, and has held a number of roles including: course leader of BSc Human Biology, BSc Nutrition and Human Health, and BSc Sport and Exercise Science, Work Experience and Employability lead for Science, and Learning Teaching and Assessment Group member. He has led and taught on a variety of modules within physiology, biochemistry, and human health.
In addition to a wide ranging interest in exercise, health and wellbeing, Richard’s specific research interests are centred around the following areas:
- Cancer Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation
- Exercise and Mental Health
- Healthy Ageing
- Green Exercise and contact with nature as a means to improve physical and psychological wellbeing