• Matthew 'Tepi' Mclaughlin is an Early Career Researcher with a passion for improving children's health
• Tepi is a keen advocate of social media, stemming from his core interest of research dissemination and getting research into practice
• The ultimate aim is to improve everyone's physical, mental and social health and long term chronic disease prevention by ensuring research gets into practice
• His PhD investigates the scalability of a 'whole-school' physical activity intervention
• His research vision is to ensure children start life on an optimal health trajectory, by integrating physical activity and nutrition evidence to health service policy and practice