Associate ProfessorShannon Sahlqvist

(She / Her)

Associate Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 925 17782 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    1 Jun 2024 - 1 Jun 2025
    The Heart of Road Use, Healthy Active by Design Discussion Paper, Heart Foundation
  • AFFILIATION
    Australasian Society for Physical Activity (ASPA)
  • AFFILIATION
    International Society for Physical Activity (ISPAH)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2017 Jim and Alison Leslie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching and Learning (part of the Vice Chancellor Awards). Awarded to Teychenne, M., Teychenne, D., Costigan, S., Sahlqvist, S., Macfarlane, S., & Dawson, P.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2003 2007 Awarded University of Queensland Mid-Year Scholarship
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    1 Jun 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    Active School Travel, Healthy Active by Design Discussion Paper, Heart Foundation
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Physical Activity and Health Pathway Lead
  • CAREER HIGHLIGHT
    Invited Keynote Speaker at the 2013 ISBNPA Post-Conference Satellite Meeting. 26 28th May, Cambridge, UK. Title of presentation: Connecting People with their Community. An environmentally focused individual intervention to increase physical activity among adults.
  • CAREER HIGHLIGHT
    Commissioned work for the World Health Organisation. In 2016 & 2018, I co-authored two reports for the WHO. The first was a section of the Global Physical Activity Toolkit focused on best practice physical activity interventions in low and middle income countries. The second, was the WHO School Physical Activity Promotion Guide and Toolkit.
  • CAREER HIGHLIGHT
    Chief investigator on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to evaluate the health effects on a new urban motorway in Glasgow, UK. (2013-2015; 641,537)
  • CAREER HIGHLIGHT
    Wrote a submission to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee on Behaviour Change (2011).