Prior to moving into health research in 2019, Trys enjoyed a 25 year career in adventure sports coaching, training and assessing National Governing Body awards at the national centres for England (Plas y Brenin) and Wales (Plas Menai) and abroard in the USA, Finland, and Norway.  She also worked for Canoe Wales (now Paddle Cymru) as a Club Development Officer, where she gained a keen interest in peer support and community health and wellbeing peer support and its impact on individual and community wellbeing.

• PhD: Health Science
  2024
• MSc: Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology
  2015
• PGCE, Information Technology with Outdoor Activities
  University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1994
• BA: Sports, Health, and Physical Education
  University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1993

Current teaching:

Lecturer and module organiser JXH-3085 Outdoor and Adventure Therapy  School of Sport Sciences, Bangor University

Current PhD students:

Rakesh Kumar - Falls, Frailty in People with Dementia https://dsdc.bangor.ac.uk/documents/RakeshKumar_Mar2021_ENG.pdf

Trys is an early career researcher at the School of Health Sciences. She is interested in improving activity maintenance rates following physical activity interventions people may undertake.  Speacifically she is interest in the role and approach of the intervention delivery staff and their use of graded individual support and the fostering of peer support networks to promote post intervention maintenance.

Trys is currently involved in the SPACES randomised control trial, an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research, which aims to implement a physical activity programme into existing NHS pathways.  The SPACES intervention, involving 15 NHS sites across England and Wales has been co-designed with and for people living with severe mental illness.  Trys is the Trials Coordinator for SPACES and is responsible for training and supporting NHS staff and local physical activity instructors to deliver the SPACES intervention.

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/studentfinance/postgraduate/funding#health

2025

• CyhoeddwydBetter Together: Service User and Delivery Staff Experiences of the SPACES Physical Activity Intervention for People with Severe Mental Illness- A Qualitative Study of a Feasibility Trial
  Bowes, E., Burke, T., Faires, M., Jones, G., Machaczek, K. K., Quirk, H., Traviss-Turner, G. D., Beeken, R. J. & Peckham, E., 3 Medi 2025, Yn: Mental Health and Physical Activity. 100717.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffuIncreasing activity and reducing sedentary behaviour for people with severe mental illness: what are the active ingredients for behaviour change? A systematic review
  Traviss-Turner, G. D., Beeken, R. J., Jones, G., Bailey, L., Bowes, E., Burke, T., Machaczek, K. K., Pickering , K., Copeland, R., Cooper, C., Tew, G. A., Weich, S. & Peckham, E., 25 Awst 2025, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Mental Health and Physical Activity.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

• CyhoeddwydWhen One Health Meets the United Nations Ocean Decade: Global Agendas as a Pathway to Promote Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Nature Relationships
  Masterson Algar, P., Jenkins, S., Windle, G., Morris-Webb, E., Takahashi, C. K., Burke, T., Rosa, I., Martinez, A. S., Torres-Mattos, E. B., Taddei, R., Morrison, V., Kasten, P., Bryning, L., Cruz de Oliveira, N. R., Gonçalves, L. R., Skov, M., Beynon-Davies, C., Bumbeer, J., Saldiva, P. H. N. & Leão, E. & 1 eraill, Christofoletti, R., 6 Ebr 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 809009.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2006

• CyhoeddwydSea Kayaking
  Morris, T., 31 Mai 2006, British Canoe Union Coaching Handbook. Ferrero, F. (gol.). Presda Press, t. 251-284
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod