Ashley Gluchowski

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Overview

Dr. Gluchowski is interested in very heavy load/high intensity progressive, resistance training in older adults for the prevention (and treatment) of age-associated disability and disease.

Her qualitative focus is on overcoming barriers to strength training implementation in practice and policy changes surrounding strength guidelines in later life.

Dr. Gluchowski has a research fellowship with the Healthy Ageing Research Group (HARG) and an ECR Engagement fellowship with the ATTAIN Network.

Research interests

Dr. Gluchowski is a mixed-methods researcher with an interest in using evidence-based progressive resistance training for the prevention of age-assoicated disease in older adults.

Chief Investigator for the projects:

1. Exploring the evidence-based underpinning of strength prescription for people aged 65 years and older in the UK. A qualitative study.

2. Does following the Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines lead to strength gain in older adults? A mixed methods study.

3. Overcoming awareness and misconception barriers of evidence-based exercise prescription in later life

Other research

Currently working on several projects for the Healthy Ageing Research Group including

StandingTall - an individually-tailored, digital, home-based fall prevention program

FLEXI - the scale up of the falls management exercise programme

Cochrane Review - population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people

Overview of Reviews - the evidence on interventions targeting pre-frail community dwelling older adults aged over 50 years to prevent frailty

Service evaluation - delirium community toolkit

Service evaluation - remote physiotherapy on behalf of the Chartered Society for Physiotherapists (CSP) to influence policy and impact physiotherapy service practice

Qualifications

Clinical Exercise Physiologist (Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology - CSEP)

Certified Special Population Specialist (National Strength and Conditioning Association - NSCA)

Behaviour Change Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine - NASM)

Nutritionist (International Sports Sciences Association - ISSA)

Technical Lifting with the Science of Strength (Australian Combat & Exercise - ACE)

Prizes and awards

ATTAIN Network, ECR Engagement Fellowship (£2,500)

EDI 'Perera' Research Fellowship (£50,000)

03/2022 - 02/2023

Chief Investigator: Does following the Chief Medical Officer’s Physical Activity Guidelines lead to strength gain in older adults? A mixed methods study.

Research Grant (£5,000)

10/2021 - 06/2022

Chief Investigator: Exploring the evidence-based underpinning of strength prescription for people aged 65 years and older in the UK

Personal and Professional Development Awards (£4,100)

02/2022 - 02/2023

PROSPER career development program

Research Innovation Awards (£5,500)

11/2021

Research-2-Innovation innovation enabling award

02/2022

Research-2-Innovation innovation enabling award

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Member of the ATTAIN network - a UKRI funded interdisciplinary network aiming to understand and overcome barriers to physically active living

Supervision information

Danielle Harris, PhD project title: Addressing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown deconditioning

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, The effects of eccentric exercise on the physical and physiological profile of older adults, Auckland University of Technology

Award Date: 3 Aug 2018

Master in Science, The effects of glucocorticoids on neutrophil degranulation, McMaster University

Award Date: 19 Nov 2010

Bachelor of Medicine, Honors specialization in medical sciences, University of Western Ontario

Award Date: 14 Jun 2007

Areas of expertise

QM Human anatomy
Exercise Prescription
Resistance Training
Strength Training
QP Physiology
Clinical Exercise Physiology
Ageing Physiology
RZ Other systems of medicine
Preventative Medicine
Gerontology
Nutrition

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
Policy@Manchester
Global inequalities
Digital Futures
Christabel Pankhurst Institute

Keywords

Early Career Researcher
Ageing
Healthy Ageing
Active Ageing
Research
Physiologist
Behaviour Change
Resistance Training
High Intensity
Mixed Methods Research
Exercise
Nutrition
Policy
Practice-led Research
PPIE

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6 Article
2 Working paper

‘A Lot of People Just Go for Walks, and Don’t Do Anything Else’: Older Adults in the UK Are Not Aware of the Strength Component Embedded in the Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines—A Qualitative Study
Gluchowski, A., Bilsborough, H., Mcdermott, J., Hawley, H. & Todd, C., 13 Aug 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19, 16, 10002.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
'I have a renewed enthusiasm for going to the gym': what keeps resistance-trained older adults coming back to the gym?
Gluchowski, A., Warbrick, I., Oldham, T. & Harris, N., 5 Feb 2018, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Comparing the effects of two distinct eccentric modalities to traditional resistance training in resistance trained, higher functioning older adults
Gluchowski, A., Dulson, D., Merien, F., Plank, L. & Harris, N., 30 Nov 2017, In: Experimental Gerontology.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Chronic Eccentric Exercise and the Older Adult
Gluchowski, A., Harris, N., Dulson, D. & Cronin, J., 14 Aug 2015, In: Sports Medicine. 45, p. 1413–1430 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
‘A lot of people just go for walks, and don’t do anything else’: Older adults in the UK are not aware of the strength component embedded in the Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines. A qualitative study.
Gluchowski, A., Mcdermott, J., Hawley, H. & Todd, C., 16 Jul 2022, SportRxiv.
Research output: Working paper

HARG: Healthy Ageing Research Group
Todd, C., Stanmore, E., Hall, A., Littlewood, A., Davies, A., Sowerbutts, A. M., Maharani, A., Dowding, D., Jones, D., Boulton, L., Cruickshank, F., Hawley-Hague, H., Brooks, J., Griffiths, J., Spencer, K., Fisher, K., Mcgarrigle, L., Cook, M., Pendleton, N., Stanford, P., Lasrado, R., Ahmed, S., Clinch, S., Burden, S., Gluchowski, A., Ford, C., Al Zadjali, F., Sremanakova, J., Fisher, K., Zougar, M., Almohaisen, N., Yang, Y., Mckenzie, Y., O'Connor, S., Aminu, A., Bosco, A., Parchment, A., Money, A., Mackenzie, A., Karki, B., Poku, B., Eost-Telling, C., French, C., Harris, D., Andah, E., Vardy, E., Hakeem, F., Donald, G., Bilsborough, H., Gangannagaripalli, J., Astbury, J., Garsden, J., Ventre, J., Aguilera Munoz, J., Allsopp, K., Mcgarrigle, L., Mott, L., Huang, L., Tomkow, L., Ahmed, N., Fox, S., Mcdermott, J., Hoodless, S., Dlima, S., Shi, Y. & Tang, Y.
Project: Research

Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP) (External organisation)
Ashley Gluchowski (Academic expert member)
1 Feb 2021
Activity: Membership › Membership of professional association

“I don’t do anything”: It’s time to place more emphasis on strength training in later life
Ashley Gluchowski
28/11/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media