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Christel Larsson

Pro-Dean

Faculty of Education
Telephone
+46 31-786 65 11
+46 709-11 65 19
Mail
christel.larsson@gu.se
Visiting address
Västra Hamngatan 25
41117 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Food and Nutrition and Sport Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 65 11
+46 709-11 65 19
Mail
christel.larsson@gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 5
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Christel Larsson

Christel Larsson is a professor in food and nutrition at the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sports Science. She is a trained nutritionist (MSc) at Stockholm University and also holds a master's degree in public health from Karolinska Institute and a master's degree in food and nutrition from Umeå University. In 2001, she became the first doctorate in food and nutrition in Sweden, with a thesis about young people's food habits and health. Christel has received the Royal Skyttean Society's Prize, the Dr PersFood Research Prize and the Western Gastronomic Academy's Science Prize.

The focus of Christel's research is healthy food habits, and she is particularly interested in dietary intake and health among children and young people, health promotion work and subject-integrated food education. She leads and participates in several ongoing research projects about promoting healthy lifestyles regarding food habits and physical activity. For several years, she has led the research environment Food & Meals and has supervised several doctoral students in both nutritional science, sports science and public health and epidemiology.

She is part of the steering group for a national research network in epidemiology and nutrition (NEON). She has contributed to several publications, reports and books, such as the book "Näringslära för högskolan" and "Människors möte med mat och måltider", and the report Towards a Shared Understanding of Food Literacy Across the European Union".

Christel has held several management positions within the university and are now elected as Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences with responsibility for research.