Kirsty Pourshahidi

Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences
Lecturer, Faculty Of Life & Health Sciences

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-5251

Phone+442870124030
Emailk.pourshahidi@ulster.ac.uk

Cromore Road, Coleraine Campus
BT52 1SA Coleraine
United Kingdom

762 Citations
14 h-Index

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Personal profile

Biography

Kirsty graduated from Ulster University with a BSc Hons (first class) Human Nutrition, followed by a PhD in Nutrition. She worked as a Research Associate within the Nutrition team at Ulster on a range of externally funded research projects (2011-2014), before being promoted to Research Fellow in July 2014. Kirsty also acted as Lecturer in Food Science within the School of Biomedical Sciences (maternity cover, 2015).

Her research at the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) is focused on agri-food nutrition and consumer innovation, and she also has a particular interest in vitamin D requirements for health. She has supervised a number of PhDs to successful completion across these research areas.

Kirsty has experience of conducting controlled human intervention studies in different population and clinical groups Kirsty is author on more than 35 peer-reviewed publications investigating various aspects of agri-food nutrition and consumer innovation, food choice, vitamin D and health. In 2014, Kirsty was the inaugural recipient of the Julie Wallace Medal Lecture awarded by the Nutrition Society in recognition of early stage scientific excellence in the field of nutrition.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD

Oct 2007 → Oct 2010

Bachelor, School of Biomedical Sciences

Sep 2003 → Jul 2007

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Research Output

762 Citations
14 h-Index
79 Article
2 Conference contribution
1 Conference article

Modest improvement in CVD risk markers in older adults following quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) consumption: a randomized-controlled crossover study with a novel food product

Pourshahidi, L. K., Caballero, E., Osses, A., Hyland, B., Ternan, N. G. & Gill, C. IR., 9 Jan 2020, In : European Journal of Nutrition. 11 p.

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A qualitative exploration of the shift work experience: the perceived effect on eating habits, lifestyle behaviours and psychosocial wellbeing

Nea, F. M., Pourshahidi, L. K., Kearney, J. M., Livingstone, M. B. E., Bassul, C. & Corish, C. A., 13 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Public Health. online, p. 1-11

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7 Citations (Scopus)

74 Downloads (Pure)

Conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence (CUVAF) area, but not intensity, is associated with myopia in UK adults

Kearney, S., O'Donoghue, L., Pourshahidi, L. K., Richardson, P., Laird, E., Healy, M. & Saunders, K. J., 16 Aug 2018, In : Clinical and Experimental Optometry.

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Cow milk consumption increases iodine status in women of childbearing age in a randomized controlled trial

O'Kane, M., Pourshahidi, K., Mulhern, M. S., Strain, JJ., Mackle, E., Koca, D., Schomburg, L., Hill, S., O'Reilly, J., Kmiotek, D., Deitrich, C., Bath, S. C. & Yeates, A. J., 12 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Nutrition. 148, 3, p. 401-408

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Open Access

3 Citations (Scopus)

Dietary patterns of university students in the UK: a cross-sectional study

Sprake, EF., Russell, JM., Cecil, JE., Cooper, RJ., Grabowski, P., Pourshahidi, L. K. & Barker, ME., 5 Oct 2018, In : Nutrition Journal. 17, 90, p. 1-17 17 p.

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