The authors thank the East Thames Group, Triathlon Homes and Get Living London, which assisted in recruiting participants into the ENABLE London study. The ENABLE London study was advised by a Steering Committee chaired by Professor Hazel Inskip (University of Southampton) with Dr David Ogilvie (University of Cambridge) and Professor Andy Jones (University of East Anglia) as academic advisors and Mrs Kate Worley (formerly East Thames Group Assistant Director for Strategic Housing) as the lay/stakeholder member. The authors are grateful to the members of the ENABLE London study team (in particular Aine Hogan, Katrin Peuker, Cathy McKay) and to participating households, without whom this study would not be possible. We are also grateful to Emma Ranger and Rachel Hahn (University of Bristol), who carried out spatial narratives with Bina Ram, and Lee Berney (Queen Mary, University of London), who carried out the focus groups. Emma Ranger also carried out the analysis for Chapter 8, as part of her PhD studies. Our thanks to Charlotte Wahlich (St George’s, University of London), who assisted the authors in the preparation of this report.
Contributions of authors
Christopher G Owen (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-5977) (Professor of Epidemiology, St George’s, University of London) was the principal investigator leading on the design and execution of the study, oversaw all study analyses and publications and led the preparation of the final report.
Elizabeth S Limb (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0830-7376) and Claire M Nightingale (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-7617) (Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Medical Statistics, St George’s, University of London) were the primary statisticians for the ENABLE London study, responsible for data management, curation and analyses, leading on some and contributing to other publications emanating from the study, as well as the final report.
Alicja R Rudnicka (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0369-8574) (Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, St George’s, University of London) co-designed and raised funding for the ENABLE London study, and oversaw analyses emanating from the study. Alicja R Rudnicka contributed to all publications emanating from the study and the final report.
Bina Ram (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0023-1573) (Programme Manager and St George’s, University of London, PhD student) was responsible for delivery of the ENABLE London study and data collection and management. She was also responsible for the mental health and well-being assessment in the ENABLE London cohort (with support from Aparna Shankar), leading on analyses and publications, and has contributed to publications emanating from the study and the final report.
Aparna Shankar (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-8189) (Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Medicine, St George’s, University of London) was responsible for the qualitative analysis chapter and has contributed to publications emanating from the study and the final report.
Steven Cummins (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3957-4357) [Professor of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)] co-designed and raised funding for the ENABLE London study, and was the lead researcher on the built environment indices used in the study, with Daniel Lewis (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2111-4256) (Medical Research Council Skills Development Fellow, LSHTM) and Christelle Clary (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5959-5043) (Research Fellow, LSHTM). Together they led multiple study analyses and publications and contributed to others, as well as having responsibility for built environment sections of the final report.
Ashley R Cooper (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-3870) (Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health, University of Bristol) and Angie S Page (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6427-9336) (Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health, University of Bristol) co-designed and raised funding for the ENABLE London study, and were the lead researchers on the Geographical Positioning Systems-Accelerometry assessment and spatial narratives carried out in the ENABLE London study. In association with Duncan Procter (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1874-1205) (Research Fellow, University of Bristol), they led multiple study analyses and publications and contributed to others, and with Elizabeth S Limb (Senior Research Fellow, University of London), were responsible for travel mode sections of the final report.
Anne Ellaway (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2117-4451) (Professor and Programme Leader of the Neighbourhoods and Communities Programme, University of Glasgow), Billie Giles-Corti (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-0225) (Distinguished Professor, Director of Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and Peter H Whincup (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-4107) (Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, University of London) co-designed and raised funding for the ENABLE London study, and contributed to the design, execution and oversight of the study in general, and contributed to study analyses and publications.
Derek G Cook (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9723-5759) (Professor of Epidemiology, St George’s, University of London) co-designed and raised funding for the ENABLE London study, and oversaw analyses emanating from the study. Derek G Cook contributed to all publications emanating from the study and the final report.
All authors contributed to the final report and approved the final version.
Publications
Ram B, Nightingale CM, Hudda MT, Kapetanakis VV, Ellaway A, Cooper AR, et al. Cohort profile: Examining Neighbourhood Activities in Built Living Environments in London: the ENABLE London-Olympic Park cohort. BMJ Open 2016;6:e012643.
Ram B, Shankar A, Nightingale CM, Giles-Corti B, Ellaway A, Cooper AR, et al. Comparisons of depression, anxiety, well-being, and perceptions of the built environment among adults seeking social, intermediate and market-rent accommodation in the former London Olympic Athletes’ Village. Health Place 2017;48:31–9.
Nightingale CM, Rudnicka AR, Ram B, Shankar A, Limb ES, Procter D, et al. Housing, neighbourhood and sociodemographic associations with adult levels of physical activity and adiposity: baseline findings from the ENABLE London study. BMJ Open 2018;8:e021257.
Procter DS, Page AS, Cooper AR, Nightingale CM, Ram B, Rudnicka AR, et al. An open-source tool to identify active travel from hip-worn accelerometer, GPS and GIS data. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2018;15:91.
Nightingale CM, Limb ES, Ram B, Shankar A, Clary C, Lewis D, et al. The effect of moving to East Village, the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Athletes’ Village, on physical activity and adiposity (ENABLE London): a cohort study. Lancet Public Health 2019;4:e421–e430.
Limb ES, Procter DS, Cooper AR, Page AS, Nightingale CM, Ram B, et al. The effect of moving to East Village, the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Athletes' Village, on mode of travel (ENABLE London study, a natural experiment). Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2020;17:15.
Clary C, Lewis D, Limb E, Nightingale CM, Ram B, Page AS, et al. Longitudinal impact of changes in the residential built environment on physical activity: findings from the ENABLE London cohort study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2020;17:96.
Clary C, Lewis D, Limb ES, Nightingale CM, Ram B, Rudnicka AR, et al. Weekend and weekday associations between the residential built environment and physical activity: Findings from the ENABLE London study. PLOS ONE 2020;15:e0237323.
Ram B, Limb ES, Shankar A, Nightingale CM, Rudnicka AR, Cummins S, et al. Evaluating the effect of change in the built environment on mental health and subjective well-being: a natural experiment. J Epidemiol Community Health 2020;74:631–8.
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