Director of Behaviour and Health Research Unit

BSc, MSc, PhD, FMedSci, AcSS

Email: tm388@cam.ac.uk

Tel Theresa Marteau PA: 01223 330331

Research Interests

Theresa Marteau is Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of interventions to change behaviour (principally food, tobacco and alcohol consumption) to improve population health and reduce health inequalities, with a particular focus on targeting non-conscious processes. Other research interests include (a) risk perception and communication particular of biomarker-derived risks, and their weak links with behaviour change, and (b) acceptability to publics and policy makers of government intervention to change behavior.

Teaching

She is Director of Studies for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge. She supervises Introduction to Psychology in Part 1A of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos.

Recent selected publications

Pechey, R., Cartwright, E., Pilling, M., Hollands, G. J., Vasiljevic, M., Jebb, S. A., & Marteau, T. M. (2019). Impact of increasing the proportion of healthier foods available on energy purchased in worksite cafeterias: A stepped wedge randomized controlled pilot trial. Appetite, 133, 286-296. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.11.013

Marteau TM. Changing minds about changing behaviour. Lancet, 391, 116-117. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33324-X

Hollands GJ, Bignardi G, Johnston M, Kelly MP, Ogilvie D, Petticrew M, Prestwich A, Shemilt I, Sutton S, Marteau TM. (2017) The TIPPME intervention typology for changing environments to change behaviour. Nat. Hum. Behav; 1:0140; 10.1038/s41562-017-0140.

Hollands GJ, French DP, Griffin SJ, Prevost AT, Sutton S, King S, Marteau TM. (2016) The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: systematic review with meta-analysis. BMJ; 352:i1102; 10.1136/bmj.i1102

Pechey R, Couturier DL, Hollands GJ, Mantzari E, Munafo MR, Marteau TM. (2016) Does wine glass size influence sales for on-site consumption? A multiple treatment reversal design. BMC Public Health; 16(1):390; 10.1186/s12889-016-3068-z

Hollands GJ, Shemilt I, Marteau TM, Jebb SA, Lewis HB, Wei Y, Higgins JP, Ogilvie D. (2015) Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco. Cochrane Database Syst Rev; 9:CD011045; 10.1002/14651858.CD011045.pub2

Diepeveen S, Ling T, Suhrcke M, Roland M, Marteau TM. (2013) Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMC Public Health; 13:756; 10.1186/1471-2458-13-756

Marteau TM, Hollands GJ Fletcher PC Changing human behavior to prevent disease: The importance of targeting automatic processes. Science 2012, 337, 1492 DOI: 10.1126/science.1226918