Impact and Events

News and Updates

Sharing progress, reflections and community impact from Move Health.

Trees on a stony shore beside a still loch with hills beyond

Here you will find updates from our activities, reflections from community sessions, and insights from our work in prevention and community health.

Coming up

Health MOTDrop-in

Know Your Body: A Health MOT

Thursday 22 October 2026, 10am to 4pm

Codebase, Stirling, as part of Stirling Science Festival (21 to 24 October)

Free, open to all ages, just turn up.

Drop in and move through five hands-on stations: grip strength, balance, mobility, heart and lung fitness and health literacy. Everyone leaves with a personalised Health Passport.

Festival listing How it was developed

News and updates

Illustration of a person squeezing a handheld grip strength device while a student with a tablet looks on

Coming up

Research and Innovation placement, 29 June to 14 August 2026

Building the Move Health MOT: Students Prepare for Stirling Science Festival

Two MSc Physiotherapy students spent seven weeks designing, testing and refining a free community health MOT. You can try it for yourself at Stirling Science Festival on Thursday 22 October.

The low timber-roofed Maggie's Centre Forth Valley building beside a loch, with reeds in front and woodland behind.

Research and Innovation placement, 29 June to 14 August 2026

Preparing a New Cancer Prehabilitation Pilot: Students Work With NHS Forth Valley and Maggie's

Two MSc Physiotherapy students worked alongside NHS Forth Valley and Maggie's Centre Forth Valley to help prepare a new physical activity prehabilitation pilot, from choosing the outcome measures to writing the patient handbook.

Students speaking to a seated group in a community room

August 2026

HEAL: Co-Producing a Lower Back Pain Session With Inspiring Communities

Students ran a focus group, listened to what the HEAL group needed, and built a lower back pain session around it. This is how it was designed, and what people told us afterwards.

Students and colleagues in high-visibility jackets smiling on a sports pitch

29 June to 14 August 2026

Listening First: Students Build Community Partnerships on a Community Innovation Placement

Three MSc Physiotherapy students spent seven weeks meeting community organisations, listening to the people they support, and co-producing health education around what people told them they needed.

Two MSc Physiotherapy students standing beside a screen showing the title slide of their Move Health scoping project presentation.

Placement 1, 4 May to 19 June 2026

Where It Began: Listening in Raploch on Move Health's First Student Placement

Two MSc Physiotherapy students spent Move Health's first placement mapping community strengths, visiting local groups and listening, before anyone proposed a single service.

Students and staff leading a falls awareness session with residents in the lounge at Thorntree Mews Care Home

26 February 2026

Falls Awareness at Thorntree Mews: Prevention, Partnership and Learning in Action

Move Health delivered its first falls awareness session at Thorntree Mews Care Home in Falkirk. It was a small pilot, but it captured something important about what we are trying to build.

Students Holly, Victoria, Ben and Harry presenting their MSK Physiotherapy Waiting List Deep Dive

May to August 2026

Quality Improvement in NHS Forth Valley: Helping to Understand and Redesign an MSK Service

Two cohorts of MSc Physiotherapy students combined clinical placement with quality improvement work, helping NHS Forth Valley's MSK service understand its waiting list and design a way through it.