Personal
- Name
- Professor Neil King
- Position(s)
- Director, Research Training
Faculty of Health,
Faculty - Health - Professor
Faculty of Health,
School - Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Exercise and Nutrition - HDHS - Discipline *
- Human Movement and Sports Science, Nutrition and Dietetics
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3528
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 5662
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
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Post Docotral Fellow (University of Leeds), Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed (University of Leeds)
- Professional memberships
and associations Professor Neil King is the Director of Research Training in the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology. He is also an active researcher in the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. He has achieved an international reputation in obesity research based on developing research themes, ‘resistance to lose weight’ and ‘susceptibility to gain weight’, with a focus on appetite regulation.
- ORCID ID: 000-0002-4551-0667
- Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Neil_King
- Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/neil-king-4b566512
- Keywords
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Appetite, Diet, Exercise, Food preference, Obesity, Weight Management
Biography
Professor King is nationally and internationally recognised as a researcher in Physical Activity, Appetite Control and Energy Balance. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 150 peer-reviewed conference abstracts and 20 book chapters. He has an h-index of 36. His publications have been cited more than 360 times/year. More than 75% of his publications are in journals ranked in the top quartile. His research has advanced the understanding of the interaction between exercise, satiety and appetite regulation, and in particular, the role of exercise in weight management.
PhD and Masters Research Supervision: Professor King has successfully supervised 16 Higher Degree Research students to completion. He is interested in supervising projects that lead to innovative and effective weight loss strategies. Examples include, exercise and dietary interventions, serious games technologies and determining psychological factors associated with susceptibility to weight gain and resistance to weight loss. Desirable qualifications include graduates with degrees in Nutrition, Dietetics, Sports Science and Human Movements. Please visit the START database (http://start.health.qut.edu.au/). If you are interested in doing a PhD or Research Masters with Professor King, please send him an email with a copy of your cv and a brief (max. 500 words) research proposal.
Teaching
Publications
- Hopkins M, Gibbons C, Caudwell P, Hellstrom PM, Naslund E, King NA, Finlayson G, Blundell JE, (2014) The adaptive metabolic response to exercise-induced weight loss influences both energy expenditure and energy intake, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition p581-586
- Gibbons C, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Hopkins M, Bryant EJ, Horner K, Blundell JE, King NA, (2013) Impact of exercise training on habitual activity and food intake in the obese, Exercise therapy in adult Individuals with obesity p225-242
- Dalton M, Finlayson G, Esdaile EK, King NA, (2013) Appetite, satiety, and food reward in obese individuals: A behavioral phenotype approach, Current Nutrition Reports p207-215
- Fay S, Finlayson G, King NA, (2013) Diet-induced obesity: When does consumption become overconsumption?, Current Obesity Reports p104-106
- Martins C, Kulseng B, Rehfeld JF, King NA, Blundell JE, (2013) Effect of chronic exercise on appetite control in overweight and obese individuals, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise p805-812
- Hopkins M, Blundell JE, King NA, (2014) Individual variability in compensatory eating following acute exercise in overweight and obese women, British Journal of Sports Medicine - BJSM Online p1472-1476
- Caudwell P, Gibbons C, Hopkins M, King NA, Finlayson G, Blundell JE, (2013) No sex difference in body fat in response to supervised and measured exercise, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise p351-358
- Melanson EL, Kozey-Keadle S, Donnelly JE, Braun B, King NA, (2013) Resistance to exercise-induced weight loss: Compensatory behavioral adaptations, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise p1600-1609
- King NA, Horner K, Hills A, Byrne NM, Wood RE, Bryant EJ, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Gibbons C, Hopkins M, Martins C, Blundell JE, (2013) The interaction between exercise, appetite and food intake : implications for weight control, American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine p265-273
- King NA, Horner K, Hills A, Byrne NM, Wood RE, Bryant EJ, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Gibbons C, Hopkins M, Martins C, Blundell JE, (2012) Exercise, appetite and weight management: Understanding the compensatory responses in eating behaviour and how they contribute to variability in exercise-induced weight loss, British Journal of Sports Medicine: an international peer-reviewed journal of sport and exercise medicine p315-322
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.