Bio
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.
Research & Interests
- 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
Journal Articles
- 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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