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Health Promotion Staff, Colette Kelly

Dr Colette Kelly BSc, MSc, PhD, RPHNutr [ Email]

Lecturer, Discipline of Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences and Project Leader, Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway

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Dr. Colette Kelly joined the Discipline of Health Promotion in 2011 as a lecturer and is the director of the BA Social Care programme. Colette is also a project leader in the Health Promotion Research Centre, which she joined in 2005. Her teaching is primarily on the BA Social Care programme, an adult education, blended learning programme but Colette also contributes to teaching across the School and University.

Colette is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and has previously worked as a nutrition consultant and in nutrition research. Colette obtained her PhD from the University of Reading and her Masters from the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is also a graduate of University College Galway.

Teaching Interests:

Children's Studies
Health Promotion
Social Care
Adult Education

Research Interests:

Health & social care of children & young people

Health and health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC)

Food & nutrition

Vulnerable groups

Participation of young people in research

Professional activities

Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr.)

Member of the Nutrition Society

Member of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education

Member of the Association for Health Promotion, Ireland

Selected Publications

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Kelly, C., Clerkin, P., Nic Gabhainn, S. & Mulvihill, M. (2010). Food marketing in Irish schools. Health Education 110(5), 336-350. www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09654281011068504

Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Doyle, P. & Nic Gabhainn, S (2010). Psychosomatic symptoms among schoolchildren. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine & Health 22(2), 223-230. download (312KB)

Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2010). Patterns in weight reduction behaviour by weight status in schoolchildren. Public Health Nutrition, 13(8), 1229-1236. (doi:10.1017/S1368980009992102) download (115KB)

Fitzgerald, A., Heary, C., Nixon, E. & Kelly, C. (2010). Factors influencing the food choices of Irish children and adolescents: A qualitative investigation. Health Promotion International, 25, 289-98. download

Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2010). Deficits in health and well-being among immigrant children in Ireland: the explanatory role of social capital. Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review, 6(1). download (145KB)

Molcho, M., Nic Gabhainn, S., Kelly, C., Friel, S., & Kelleher, C. (2007). Food poverty and health among schoolchildren: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Public Health Nutrition 10(4), 364-370. download (141KB)

Al Sabbah, H., Vereecken, C., Abdeen, Z., Kelly, C., Ojala, K., Nemeth, A., Ahluwalia, N & Maes, L. (2009). Weight control behaviours among overweight, normal weight and underweight adolescents in Palestine: findings from the National Study of Palestinian Schoolchildren (HBSC - WBG 2004). International Journal of Eating Disorders. Published online May 2009. DOI: 10.1002/eat.20699. download 116KB

Haug E, Rasmussen M, Samdal O, Iannotti R, Kelly C, Borraccino A, Vereecken C, Melkevik O, Lazzeri G, Giacchi M, Ercan O, Due P, Ravens-Sieberer U, Currie C, Morgan A, Ahluwalia N and the HBSC Obesity Writing Group (2009) Overweight in school-aged children and its relationship with demographic and lifestyle factors: results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. International Journal of Public Health, 54, S167-179. download (193KB)

Kelly, C., Molcho, M., & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland 2006 Middle Childhood Study: Socio-demographic patterns in health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people’s health. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (846KB)

O'Connell, A., Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). The mean age at menarche of Irish girls in 2006. Irish Medical Journal 102 (3), 76-79. download (13KB)

Vereecken C, Dupuy M, Rasmussen M, Kelly C, Nanse TR, Al Sabbah H, Baldassari D, Delgrande Jordan M, Maes L, Niclasen B V-L, Ahluwalia Nand the HBSC Eating & Dieting Focus Group (2009) Breakfast consumption and its socio-demographic and lifestyle correlates in schoolchildren in 41 countries participating in the HBSC study. International Journal of Public Health, 54, S180-190. download (205KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn,S. (2008). HBSC Ireland. child well-being in Dublin City. Short report for the Dublin City Children’s Services Committee. download (338KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Key issues for conisderation in the development of a Data Strategy for Children in Ireland: a review of the literature. Report to the Office of the Minister for Children, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (4KB)

Gavin, A., Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Family, peer and school relationships as predictors of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in Irish adolescents: differences between sustained and experimental substance use behaviour. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s50-s51. download (885KB)

Kelly, C., Davin, V., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Family structure and children’s eating patterns: secondary analysis of the health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study 2002. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s48-s49. download (916KB)

Kelly, C., Walker, L., Brennan, G., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). HBSC 2006 Full Variable Report: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland study 2006: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people’s lives. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (4.27MB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Inequalities in health among school-aged children in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (657KB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Towards understanding food poverty in adolescence. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s42-s43. download (903KB)

Nic Gabhainn,S., Molcho, M. and Kelly, C. (2008). HBSC Ireland: frequency of smoking behaviour in middle childhood and adolescence. Short report to the Office of Tobacco Control, Ireland. download (18KB )

Kelly, C., Clerkin, P., Galvin, M., & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2007). Marketing of foodstuffs in post-primary schools in Ireland. Report to the Irish Heart Foundation. download (494KB)

Nic Gabhainn, S., Kelly, C. & Molcho, M. (2007). HBSC Ireland 2006: National Report of the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (125MB)

Buttriss, J., Stanner, S., McKevith, B., Nugent, A.P., Kelly, C., Phillips, F., & Theobald, H.E. (2004). Successful ways to modify food choice: lessons from the literature. Nutrition Bulletin 29(4), 333-343. download (108KB)

Kelly, C.N.M., Miller, G.J., & Williams, C.M. (2004). Olive oil and haemostasis in ’Human Nutritional Properties of Olive Oil’. Grasas y Aceites 55, 52-65. download (91.6KB)

Stanner, S.A., Hughes, J., Kelly, C.N., & Buttriss, J. (2004). A review of the epidemiological evidence for the 'antioxidant hypothesis'. Public Health Nutrition 7(3), 407-22. download (242KB)

Kelly, C.N., & Stanner, S.A. (2003). Diet and cardiovascular disease in the UK: are the messages getting across? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 62(3), 583-9. download (181KB)

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