Simon Langley-Evans

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Simon Langley-Evans
NationalityBritish
EducationIcknield High School, Luton Sixth Form College
Alma materRoyal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of Southampton
AwardsThe Nutrition Society Silver Medal
Scientific career
FieldsHuman nutrition
Institutions University of Southampton, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, University of Northampton, University of Nottingham
Thesis Central activity of glucocorticoids and glucocorticoid receptors in the genetically obese Zucker rat (fa/fa)  (1990)

Simon Langley-Evans is a British scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Nottingham. [1]

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Education

Langley-Evans attended Icknield High School and Luton Sixth Form College. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London in 1986. His PhD was from the University of Southampton (1990), supervised by Professor David York and examined by Nancy Rothwell. He obtained a PGCHE from the University of Nottingham in 2004.

Career

Langley-Evans was the head of the University of Nottingham School of Biosciences between 2016 and 2021.

Langley-Evans was the winner of the Nutrition Society Silver Medal in 2005. [2]

In 2012 he was awarded a DSc from the University of Nottingham in recognition of his contribution to research into the early life origins of adult disease. His principal contribution was the development of experimental models to test the hypothesis that variation in maternal nutrition during pregnancy could programme long-term health and disease. [3] [4] A long-term champion of equality, diversity and inclusion, for which he was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Medal [5] in 2016, Langley-Evans has been outspoken in criticising declining standards of scholarship in the nutrition field [6] and has written about the lack of care taken by the academic community to prevent burnout and poor mental health. [7]

In addition to publishing more than 150 papers in scientific journals [8] and has contributed to several books on early life programming as editor [9] and author, [10] [11] [12] [13] Langley-Evans is the author of an academic textbook entitled Nutrition, Health and Disease: A Lifespan Approach, [14] [15] [16] of which the third edition was published in 2021, and was the longest-serving editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics between 2012 and 2023. [17] Outreach work to further understanding of nutrition science has included participation in I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here and provision of specialist advice for a children's book. [18]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon. "Simon Langley-Evans".
  2. ↑ "Silver Medal". www.nutritionsociety.org. The Nutrition Society. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon C.; McMullen, Sarah (2010). "Developmental Origins of Adult Disease". Medical Principles and Practice. 19 (2): 87–98. doi: 10.1159/000273066 . ISSN   1011-7571. PMID   20134170. S2CID   13719303.
  4. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2009). "Nutritional programming of disease: unravelling the mechanism". Journal of Anatomy. 215 (1): 36–51. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00977.x. ISSN   1469-7580. PMC   2714637 . PMID   19175805.
  5. ↑ https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/registrar/registrars-office/vc-medal.aspx
  6. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2023). "Bad science: time for our community to do better". Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36 (4): 1127–1130. doi:10.1111/jhn.13165. PMID   37067000. S2CID   258180783.
  7. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2023). "Burnout: The peril stalking academics and researchers". Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36 (4): 1127–1130. doi:10.1111/jhn.13135. PMID   37066996. S2CID   258178428.
  8. ↑ "langley-evans - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Fetal nutrition and adult disease : programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition. S. C. Langley-Evans. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX: CABI Pub. in association with the Nutrition Society. 2004. ISBN   0-85199-062-2. OCLC   182530283.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ↑ Early life origins of ageing and longevity. Alexander Vaiserman. Cham. 2019. ISBN   978-3-030-24958-8. OCLC   1114337657.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ↑ The biology of child health : a reader in development and assessment. Sarah Neill, Helen Knowles. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN   0-333-77636-4. OCLC   56672014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ Perinatal programming : the state of the art. Andreas Plagemann. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2012. ISBN   978-3-11-024945-3. OCLC   769343064.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ↑ Personalized nutrition : principles and applications. Frans Kok, Laura Bouwman, Frank Desiere. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2008. ISBN   978-0-8493-9281-8. OCLC   105457215.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ Langley-Evans, Simon (17 August 2015). Nutrition, health and disease (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9781119180432. ISBN   9781119180432.
  15. ↑ "Nutrition: A Lifespan Approach". Wiley. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  16. ↑ Langley-Evans, S. C. (2021). Nutrition, Health and Disease : A Lifespan Approach (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-119-71754-6. OCLC   1287758905.
  17. ↑ https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/closing-a-chapter-on-11-years-at-the-journal-of-human-nutrition-and-dietetics.html
  18. ↑ Knighton, Kate (2008). Why shouldn't I eat junk food?. Adam Larkum, Jane Chisholm, Susan Meredith. [Tulsa, Okla.]: [EDC Pub.] ISBN   978-0-7945-1953-7. OCLC   179830663.
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