Rate My Professor Kim Meredith-Jones

Research Associate Professor Kim Meredith-Jones serves in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago's Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, where she has directed the Bone and Body Composition Research Unit since 2009. She obtained her PhD from the University of Otago in 2009 and a BSc with Distinction from the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research specializations encompass bone and body composition, sleep, sedentary behaviour, and physical activity assessment, with a focus on accelerometry techniques. Clinically, she provides paediatric bone density and body composition measurements. In education, she supervises research higher degree students and contributes to ELM 3 cases. Meredith-Jones participates in key projects such as the BED study, Time2Move, DREAM, POI, and the Dunedin Study, involving physical activity recommendations for children and families, analysis of accelerometry and wearable camera data for physical activity and sleep assessment, and bone and body composition analyses.

She is a member of the Department of Medicine Research Committee and holds the position of Associate Editor for the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Professional affiliations include accredited membership in the Australian & New Zealand Bone Mineral Society, Otago Falls, Edgar Centre for Diabetes Research Centre, and the International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour. Notable publications include Yap et al. (2026), 'A randomised controlled trial comparing the effects of personalised diet and physical activity intervention versus usual care on cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with inactive inflammatory bowel disease,' Nutrients; Meredith-Jones et al. (2026), 'Screens, teens, and sleep: Is the impact of nighttime screen use on sleep driven by physiological arousal?,' Journal of Sleep Research; Jackson et al. (2026), 'The influence of different processing rules on wearable camera data estimates of habitual screen time in children,' Journal of Activity, Sedentary & Sleep Behaviors; Brosnan et al. (2025), 'From dusk to dawn: examining how adolescents engage with digital media using objective measures of screen time in a repeated measures study,' International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity; and Gába et al. (2025), 'Reallocating time between 24-h movement behaviors for obesity management across the lifespan: a pooled data meta-analysis of more than 9800 participants from seven countries,' Sports Medicine.