Associate Professor
Toby Pavey
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Keywords
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Health, Chronic Disease, Epidemiology, Systematic Reviews
Research field
Sports science and exercise, Public health
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD in Sport and Health Sciences (University of Exeter)
Professional memberships and associations
International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (ISMPB) Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) Associate Editor: BMC Public Health Scientific Advisory Board: Journal of Behavioural Health
Teaching
Undergraduate units coordinated currently by Dr Pavey
- Evidence Based Practice in Exercise Science (XNH279)
- Physical Activity and Health (XNB176)
Undergraduate units teaching into
- Foundational Practice in Exercise Science (XNB173)
- Physical Activity and Nutrition (XNB172)
Experience
Experience
- 2016-present: Associate Professor in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Health in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Queensland University of Technology
- 2012-2016: Research Fellow in Physical Activity and Health in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland
- 2016-present: Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland
International experience
- 2009-2012: Associate Research Fellow in Health Technology Assessment at the Exeter Medical School (University of Exeter)
- 2005-2009: PhD in Sport and Health Sciences in the School of sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter
Publications
- Ahmadi, M., Pavey, T. & Trost, S. (2020). Machine learning models for classifying physical activity in free-living preschool children. Sensors, 20(16), 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202973
- Bennie, J., De Cocker, K., Pavey, T., Stamatakis, E., Biddle, S. & Ding, D. (2020). Muscle strengthening, aerobic exercise, and obesity: A pooled analysis of 1.7 million US adults. Obesity, 28(2), 371–378. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197125
- Pavey, T. & Brown, W. (2019). Sitting time and depression in young women over 12-years: The effect of physical activity. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 22(10), 1125–1131. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131058
- Pavey, T., Gilson, N., Gomersall, S., Clark, B. & Trost, S. (2017). Field evaluation of a random forest activity classifier for wrist-worn accelerometer data. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20(1), 75–80. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/96964
- Pavey, T., Kolbe-Alexander, T., Uijtdewilligen, L. & Brown, W. (2017). Which women are highly active over a 12-year period? A prospective analysis of data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Sports Medicine, 47(12), 2653–2666. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/107613
- Ekelund, U., Steene-Johannessen, J., Brown, W., Fagerland, M., Owen, N., Powell, K., Bauman, A., Lee, I., Pavey, T. & other, a. (2016). Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women. The Lancet, 388(10051), 1302–1310. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97836
- Pavey, T., Peeters, G., Gomersall, S. & Brown, W. (2016). Long-term effects of physical activity level on changes in healthy body mass index over 12 years in young adult women. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 91(6), 735–744. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95437
- Brown, W., Pavey, T. & Bauman, A. (2015). Comparing population attributable risks for heart disease across the adult lifespan in women. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 49(16), 1069–1076. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92480
- Pavey, T., Peeters, G. & Brown, W. (2015). Sitting-time and 9-year all-cause mortality in older women. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 49(2), 95–99. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92473
- Pavey, T., Taylor, A., Fox, K., Hillsdon, M., Anokye, N., Campbell, J., Foster, C., Green, C., Moxham, T., Mutrie, N., Searle, J., Trueman, P. & Taylor, R. (2011). Effect of exercise referral schemes in primary care on physical activity and improving health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis. The BMJ (British Medical Journal), 343, 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92466
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Toby, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Using Rugby League Clubs to Reduce Diabetes Risk in Overweight and Obese Men: League Fans in Training (League-FIT)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- Y21G-PAVT
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.