Professor of Physical Activity and Health Behaviour, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Joined December 2011
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I am super excited to be co-leading DRIVEN, our new interdisciplinary research centre which has as its mission to help individuals, communities and organisations make sustained changes in behaviours that will help them achieve valuable outcomes
Yesterday, we launched our new research centre. We represent a diverse group of researchers working on various health behaviours (PA, nutrition, etc), health & behavioural economics, health care, business, education, engineering, data analytics & AI, health informatics.
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Like many sensible colleagues, I have migrated to @cthogersen.bsky.social
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Cecilie Thøgersen retweeted
New paper: towards an empirical definition of VILPA (vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity): journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/f… During activities of daily living, VILPA elicited a physiological response (%V̇O2max & %HRmax) at 77-83 sec, and 45 sec for perceived exertion.
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Incredible grateful to @trygfonden and my stellar collaborators for this opportunity. Very excited to get started
We are excited to announce that our co-director @ecthogersen has successfully obtained a research grant of about 7 million kroner (940k Euros) from @trygfonden . The 3 1/2 years project will investigate whether ballroom dancing can be used as an effective intervention...
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💡 Ph.d.-stilling i forebyggelse af hjertesygdomme hos midaldrende kvinder gennem daglig, intens fysisk aktivitet, også kaldet VILPA! Bliv en del af vores internationale forskerteam og gør en reel forskel for kvinders sundhed. Deadline 29/09/25 🌟fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.o…
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Det skulle selvfølgelig være 29/09/24!!!!!
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We just completed the first study on MovSnax, an app to promote Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA)! 💥✅ Promising health potential. Next step? Enhancing features to make it even more motivating & personalized! 📲 @M_Stamatakis doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-1…
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Such an honour to be invited to give this keynote presentation at this great conference. Thank you so much @FEPSAC_MC
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Our Day 2 begins with an excellent keynote by Cecilie Thogersen-Ntoumani (@ecthogersen) on the motivational factors for physical activity promotion. 🤩
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I am honoured to have received a research grant from the Danish Heart Foundation @Hjerteforening with my wonderful colleagues to conduct the world's first Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity intervention targeting physically inactive 40-65 year old women
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Collaborators include Emmanuel Stamatakis, Magnus Thorsten Jensen, Christina Bjørk Petersen, Sam Liu, Svenja Jaffari, Clara Chow, Kasper Lykkegaard, Thomas Kaarsted, and Anne Kathrine Overgaard
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Our grant is a continuation of a programme of work on Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity nature.com/articles/s41591-0… link.springer.com/article/10…

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Cecilie Thøgersen retweeted
Check out this new resource. The Human Behaviour Change Project has developed a prototype data extraction template. This tool helps extract key characteristics of behavior change interventions for systematic reviews and consistent reporting. Read more: wellcomeopenresearch.org/art…

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Cecilie Thøgersen retweeted
Do behavioural change strategies work? 🤔Are health apps appropriate for people's needs? 🤷‍♀️ We answered these questions with @a_bricca in the new episode of our Podcast, The DRIBEN Lab. You can listen to the episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6LR…

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Cecilie Thøgersen retweeted
I hope everyone under 30 will show their disgust at this blank refusal by both major parties to give our youth the joy of mobility in Europe. Craven surrender to a minority of ageing Europhobes.Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Cecilie Thøgersen retweeted
DRIVEN co-director @ecthogersen is giving an invited talk about motivation and exercise @fuaarhus in Emdrup north of Copenhagen on 23/4 at 5.15 pm. fuau.dk/emdrup/program/psyko…

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