Curriculum Vitae
Inês Varela-Silva
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Inês Varela-Silva
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Varela-Silva, Inês
- Maria Ines Varela-Silva
- M I Varela-SIlva
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8318-57BD-4816
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1493-3093
Telephones
- Telephone
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- (+44) 1509228164 (Professional)
Addresses
- Loughborough University, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, LE11 3TU, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Professional)
Websites
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2005/04/01 - 2006/08/01
Concluded
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Antropologia Biologica - Saude Materno-Infantil (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Child growth and development
University of Michigan, United States
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2002/01/01 - 2005/01/05
Concluded
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Motricidade Humana (Doutoramento)
Major in Child growth and development
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
"Growth and health among Cape Verdean children in Lisbon " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada por Unanimidade |
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1995/01/01 - 1996/09/01
Concluded
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Ciências do Desporto (Mestrado)
Major in Child growth and development
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
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Aprovada por Unanimidade |
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1989/07/01
Concluded
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Ciências do Desporto (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014/08/01 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom | ||
| 2007/01/07 - 2014/07/31 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom | ||
| 2000/08/01 - 2006/12/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Michigan-Dearborn, United States |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn Department of Behavioral Sciences, United States | ||
| 1997/11/02 - 2000/07/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e Educação Física, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/09/01 - Current | Examinadora externa do programa "Archaeology Tripos, Biological Anthropology" | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 2020/09/01 - Current | Examinadora externa do "MSc Public Health (Distance Learning) | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Department of Global Health and Development, United Kingdom | ||
| 2022/08/01 - 2025/07/31 | Membro do comité de Ética da Universidade de Loughborough - Representante da School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences - Ethics Review Sub-Committee (Human Participants) 2nd TERM | Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
| 2019/08/01 - 2022/07/31 | Membro do comité de Ética da Universidade de Loughborough - Representante da School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences - Ethics Review Sub-Committee (Human Participants) 1ST TERM | Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Conselho editorial de revista cientifica | Human Biology Association, United States |
| 2021/06/01 - Current | Conselho editorial de revista cientifica | BioMed Central Ltd, United Kingdom |
| 2019/04/20 - 2023/08/31 | Consultora | Children for Health, United Kingdom |
| 2020/05/01 - 2022/07/16 | Juri de Doutoramento | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| 2022/01/19 - 2022/05/09 | Juri de Doutoramento | Universidad de Burgos Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Spain |
| 2021/02/01 - 2021/07/01 | Consultora | FostvedtMills Consulting, Norway |
| 2015/01/01 - 2020/10/06 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Susan Ako | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2013/10/01 - 2020/07/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Hankook Kim | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2013/10/01 - 2020/07/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Emmanuel Assasie | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2018/03/01 - 2018/05/14 | Juri de Doutoramento | University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
| 2012/10/01 - 2017/07/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Ana Lucia Andre | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2016/10/01 - 2017/04/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Ana Ruiz Marina | Universidad de Alcalá, Spain |
| 2017/01/07 - 2017/03/23 | Juri de Doutoramento | University of Birmingham School of Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2017/01/07 - 2017/03/01 | Juri de Doutoramento | University of Leeds School of Medicine, United Kingdom |
| 2016/06/04 - 2017/01/27 | Juri de Doutoramento | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2016/07/01 - 2016/09/29 | Juri de Doutoramento | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2015/09/01 - 2015/12/15 | Juri de Doutoramento | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2013/10/01 - 2013/12/11 | Juri de Doutoramento | The University of Sheffield Department of Archaeology, United Kingdom |
| 2010/10/01 - 2013/07/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Hugo Azcorra Perez | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico (...) |
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| 2009/10/01 - 2012/12/01 | Orientação de Doutoramento - Hannah Wilson | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
| 2011/03/01 - 2011/06/30 | Juri de Doutoramento | Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/01/01 - 2026/01/31 | UNESCO Chair in Sport, Physical Activity and Education for Development.
Post-doc
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
UNESCO Ecological Sciences for Sustainable Development, France |
Loughborough University
Ongoing
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| 2019/04/15 - 2022/12/31 | New strategies to reduce anaemia and risk of overweight and obesity through complementary feeding of infants and young children
in Peru
Post-doc
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
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Medical Research Council
Ongoing
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| 2022/01/01 - 2022/06/30 | Establishing a cross-disciplinary and geographical Partnership to Explore the Challenges and Opportunities to Address the
Double Burden of Malnutrition in Children and Adolescents in Ecuador
IP2007
Principal investigator
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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Loughborough University
Ongoing
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| 2019/07/30 - 2020/07/01 | Communities' languages, identities and belonging in participatory health care interventions.
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Post-doc
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Royal Academy of Engineering
Concluded
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| 2015/05/04 - 2016/05/03 | Nutrition and exercise for health: setting up a laboratory at CINVESTAV
NF/RS2015
Principal investigator
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Unidad Mérida, Mexico |
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias Newton Fund Concluded
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| 2015/04/01 - 2016/03/31 | Quantifying healthy birth, growth and development knowledge integration.
OPP1125811
Post-doc
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Concluded
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| 2008/09/01 - 2011/08/31 | Trends and predictors in childhood obesity in Portugal. Changes from 2002 to 2008.
UC/LU
Post-doc
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Concluded
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| 2009/11/08 - 2011/05/01 | Nutritional status and health outcomes in a dual-burden population of Maya in Yucatan
ICRG-93
Principal investigator
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Unidad Mérida, Mexico |
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/10/01 - 2021/12/31 | Cards for Health (Targetas para la Salud). Empowering children to be the agents of change among their families and communities
000734
Principal investigator
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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Loughborough University Enterprise Office
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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Activities
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2015/01/01 - 2020/09/06 | The role of gender in primary health care in Nigeria
Supervisor
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| 2013/10/01 - 2020/07/01 | Fat patterning and body proportions among children and parents: effects of socioeconomic status, living conditions and energy
expenditure
Supervisor
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| 2013/10/01 - 2020/07/01 | Physical inactivity, lifestyle behaviours, nutritional transition and the onset of hypertension and type-2 diabetes among
Ghanaian young adults
Supervisor
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| 2012/10/01 - 2017/07/01 | Intergenerational and metabolic factors affecting the health of Cape Verdean migrant families in Lisbon, Portugal
Supervisor
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| 2010/10/01 - 2013/07/01 | Intergenerational factors that shape the nutritional status of urban Maya households in Merida, Mexico. A 3-generations' study
Supervisor
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| 2009/10/01 - 2012/12/01 | Health indicators in double burdened Maya children and mothers
Supervisor
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/03/14 - 2023/03/14 | Methods of biocultural anthropology as tools to understand sustainability. Symposium of Student Union of ISCTE-University
Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Universidade Nova FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal.
Symposium
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Antropologia Biológica -Associação de Estudantes ISCTE
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/03/01 - 2023/03/01 | Embedding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in teaching and research.
Symposium
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Symposium on ‘Sustainability in the curriculum’. Midlands Academic Practice Group.
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/05/09 | Demandas energéticas de actividades de subsistencia en individuos inmaduros. Contribuciones a la Ecología del comportamiento
humano / Energetic requirements of subsistence activities in subadult individuals
(Thesis) Arguer
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Guillermo Zorrilla (PhD)
Universidad de Burgos Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Spain
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| 2020/07/16 | Association between socioeconomic status with birth outcomes and infant undernutrition in the first two years of life. Case
studies in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo".
(Thesis) Arguer
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Christian Ngandu (PhD) |
| 2018/05/14 | Exploring the links between women's work and child nutritional status in rapidly developing economies: the cases of Brazil
and India
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Stephanie Bispo (PhD) |
| 2017/03/23 | A mixed-methods examination of the dietary and physical activity characteristics of overweight and obese South Asian men living
in the UK
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Amir Emadian (PhD) |
| 2017/03/01 | Exploring the relationship between metabolic syndrome and sleep amongst adults in the UK
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rasha Alfawaz (PhD) |
| 2017/01/27 | Parental influences on Adolescents’ Physical Activity: a Singaporean Perspective
(Thesis) Arguer
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Clarice Lim (PhD) |
| 2016/09/29 | The effects of a community-led physical activity intervention on physical performance of Bangladeshi women
(Thesis) Arguer
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Ishrat Islam (PhD) |
| 2015/12/15 | Sedentary behaviour and physical activity on adults: measurement and behaviour change
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maedah Mansoubi (PhD) |
| 2013/12/11 | Growth and development on the Genus Pan
(Thesis) Arguer
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Conrad Brimacombe (PhD) |
| 2011/06/30 | Parental investment in growth and development: Cape Verdean migrants in a Portuguese poor neighbourhood
(Thesis) Arguer
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Joelma Barata de Almeida (PhD) |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Editorial Board of the American Journal of Human Biology
Member
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| 2021/06/01 - Current | Editorial Board of BMC Public Health (Section of Maternal and Child Health)
Member
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Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/04/20 - Current | Consultant on maternal and child health outcomes. | |
| 2019/04/20 - Current | Consultant on maternal and child health outcomes | |
| 2021/02/01 - 2021/07/01 | Consultant on childhood malnutrition for the Project "Healthy Village Ethiopia" - Max Foundation and Plan Netherlands. | |
| 2013/06/01 - 2013/12/31 | Science expert for the “ENCODE special exhibition - Science Museum, London, UK | Science Museum, United Kingdom |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/10/01 - Current | Examinadora Externa do Programa de Antropologia Biologica.
Evaluator
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | University of Cambridge |
| 2020/10/01 - Current | Examinadora externa do Mestrado MSc Public Health (Distance Learning).
Evaluator
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/10/01 - 2017/04/01 | Valoración del crecimiento y desarrollo de los escolares de entre 3 y 12 años, para la detección temprana de indicadores de programación fetal | Ana Ruiz Marina |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | Equality and Diversity Action Group (EDAG)
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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| 2016 | Extra Mile Awards - sustained and exceptional contribution
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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| 2015 | Extra Mile Awards - Representing women in Science
Loughborough University School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, United Kingdom
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| 1998 | Medalha de Cobre - Filantropia
Marinha Portuguesa, Portugal
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Title
| 2010 | Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Advance HE, United Kingdom
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Other distinction
| 2015 | NOMINATION: Loughborough University Teaching Awards 2015. Personal Tutor of the Year.
Loughborough University Teacher Education, United Kingdom
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| 2014 | HIGHLY COMMENDED: Loughborough University Enterprise Awards 2014. International Impact - The Maya Project
Loughborough University Enterprise Office, United Kingdom
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