Ellinor Nilsson

I am a PhD candidate and nutritionist in the research group IMPACT [1], led by professor Marie Löf. Mainly, I work with investigating movement behaviors in children and their effect on health markers.

[1] https://ki.se/en/bionut/the-impact-research-group-marie-lof

The largest project that I have been working with during my PhD is the International Study of Movement Behaviors in the Early Years (SUNRISE [1]), aiming to investigate physical activity, sedentary behavior (screen time) and sleep in children aged 3-5 years all over the world. Data collection for SUNRISE Sweden started in 2021 and is currently ongoing, where we assess movement behaviors (accelerometer and questionnaire), anthropometrics, motor skills, cognitive skills, cardiometabolic factors and fitness in Swedish preschoolers. Two other projects in my PhD include analyses on sleep (cross-sectional, published [2]) and sedentary behaviour (cross-sectional and longitudinal, manuscript writing ongoing) in 9-year-olds, and if there are any associations to cardiometabolic markers. Lastly, I also include a qualitative study in my PhD, investigating how preschool teachers and principals experience healthy lifestyle behaviours in the preschool setting, analyses starting in the autumn 2024.

[1] https://sunrise-study.com/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38676458/