Dr Liana Nagy
Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
- Email: liana.nagy@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268943
- Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Department of Health Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Summary
Liana has joined the Occupational Therapy team at Brunel in August, 2023. She has qualified as an OT in the UK in 2010 and she is a children's occupational therapy by background, having worked in a variety of settings, such as children's centres, hospital wards, mainstream and special needs schools. Liana also worked as an OT with adults with head injury, spinal injury and continue to pratice OT with adults with rare disease (NMOSD) at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Liana's PhD (2019) was completed under the supervision of Prof Maria Horne, Prof Mohammed A Mohammed and Dr Sally Barber and focused on ethnic differences in sedentary behaviour and physical activity among White British and South Asian children within the Born in Bradford study. Liana is working in academia since 2017, teaching and supervising BSc, MSc and PhD students.
Qualifications
- PhD Public Health " Ethnic differences in sedentary behaviour and physical activity in primary school age children" University of Bradford, 2019
- MSc Occupational Therapy , Teesside University, 2010
- BSc Kinetotherapy, University of Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2003
Newest selected publications
Sherry, AP., Pearson, N., Ridgers, ND., Johnson, W., Barber, SE., Bingham, DD., et al. (2020) 'Impacts of a standing desk intervention within an english primary school classroom: A pilot controlled trial'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (19). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 1661-7827 Open Access Link
Nagy, LC., Faisal, M., Horne, M., Collings, P., Barber, S. and Mohammed, M. (2019) 'Factors associated with accelerometer measured movement behaviours among White British and South Asian children aged 6-8 years during school terms and school holidays'. BMJ Open, 9 (8). pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 2044-6055 Open Access Link
Nagy, LC., Horne, M., Faisal, M., Mohammed, MA. and Barber, SE. (2019) 'Ethnic differences in sedentary behaviour in 6-8-year-old children during school terms and school holidays: A mixed methods study'. BMC Public Health, 19 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1471-2458 Open Access Link
Sherry, AP., Pearson, N., Ridgers, ND., Barber, SE., Bingham, DD., Nagy, LC. and et al. (2018) 'ActivPAL-measured sitting levels and patterns in 9-10 years old children from a UK city'. Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom), 41 (4). pp. 757 - 764. ISSN: 1741-3842 Open Access Link
Barber, SE., Kelly, B., Collings, PJ., Nagy, L., Bywater, T. and Wright, J. (2017) 'Prevalence, trajectories, and determinants of television viewing time in an ethnically diverse sample of young children from the UK'. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 1479-5868 Open Access Link