Stephan Bandelow
Associate Director of Research, SGU Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Neuroscience & Behavioral Sciences
Biography
Dr. Stephan Bandelow is an Associate Professor at St. George’s University, Grenada, within the Department of Physiology, Neuroscience & Behavioral Sciences. His main teaching roles are currently in cellular and gastro-intestinal Physiology. Besides the teaching roles, Dr Bandelow is very active in research projects, including medical school curriculum analysis and structuring to support student learning, meta-analysis of medical topics, and collaborative projects with other schools across SGU. Dr Bandelow is also a member of international research groups, with funded projects in the area of healthy ageing and dementia. His research methods focus is on quantitative study design, statistical analysis and numerical modelling.
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Areas of Interest
- Dementia
- Age-related chronic disease
- Cognitive Psychology
- Language analysis and modelling
- Medical semantics
- Mixed effects models
- Time series modelling
- Geospatial analysis
Affiliations
- Windward Islands Research & Education Foundation (WINDREF), St. George's University, Research Fellow
- Member of the British Psychological Society
Selected Publications
- Joseph, T.S. et al. (2025) ‘The Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching Anatomy: A Systematic Review’, Clinical Anatomy, 38(5), pp. 552–567. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ca.24272.
- Maity, S. et al. (2024) ‘The psychosomatic impact of Yoga in medical education: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, Medical Education Online, 29(1), p. 2364486. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2024.2364486.
- Moittié, S., Jarvis, R., Bandelow, S., Byrne, S., Dobbs, P., Grant, M., Reeves, C., White, K., Liptovszky, M., & Baiker, K. (2022). Vitamin D status in chimpanzees in human care: A Europe wide study. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 17625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21211-6
- Cartigny, E., Fletcher, D., Coupland, C., & Bandelow, S. (2021). Typologies of dual career in sport: A cluster analysis of identity and self-efficacy. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39(5), 583–590. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1835238
- Martin, D., Papageorgiou, M., Colgan, H., Bandelow, S., Greeves, J. P., Tang, J. C. Y., Fraser, W. D., Cooper, S. B., Sale, C., & Elliott-Sale, K. J. (2021). The effects of short-term low energy availability, achieved through diet or exercise, on cognitive function in oral contraceptive users and eumenorrheic women. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 46(7), 781–789. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2020-0474
- Clemes, S. A., Bingham, D. D., Pearson, N., Chen, Y.-L., Edwardson, C. L., McEachan, R. R. C., Tolfrey, K., Cale, L., Richardson, G., Fray, M., Altunkaya, J., Bandelow, S., Jaicim, N. B., Salmon, J., Dunstan, D. W., & Barber, S. E. (2020). Stand Out in Class: Restructuring the classroom environment to reduce sitting time – findings from a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 17(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-00958-z
- Furtado, G. E., Uba Chupel, M., Minuzzi, L., Patrício, M., Loureiro, M., Bandelow, S., Hogervorst, E., Ferreira, J. P., & Teixeira, A. M. (2020). Exploring the potential of salivary and blood immune biomarkers to elucidate physical frailty in institutionalized older women. Experimental Gerontology, 129, 110759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2019.110759
- Niederstrasser, N. G., Rogers, N. T., & Bandelow, S. (2019). Determinants of frailty development and progression using a multidimensional frailty index: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. PLOS ONE, 14(10), e0223799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223799
- MacLeod, H., Cooper, S., Bandelow, S., Malcolm, R., & Sunderland, C. (2018). Effects of heat stress and dehydration on cognitive function in elite female field hockey players. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-018-0101-9
- Bakrania, K., Edwardson, C. L., Khunti, K., Bandelow, S., Davies, M. J., & Yates, T. (2017). Associations between sedentary behaviours and cognitive function: Cross-sectional and prospective findings from the UK Biobank. American Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx273
Selected Projects
- Selected externally funded Research Projects Lead on WP3 of 'Active and Healthy Ageing' (Horizon 2020), 2015-2019 EUR 4.3 mil Standing Desk effects on school performance, cognition (co-I, NIHR) £ 456,912 Sustaining IT use by older people to promote autonomy and independence. ESRC, 2008-2012. WP2: Psychological performance and ICT use in the elderly £ 145,344 Eye tracking tools for dementia diagnosis (EMDA), 2010-11. £ 43,000 Assessment methods for learning disabilities (YSTF), 2008. £ 18,000 Caffeine, cognition and sports performance (Nestec), 2007. £ 53,841 Development of an LD classification system for athletes, 2006-2009 £ 40,000
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