
Dr Angeliki Papadaki
BSc(Thess.), MSc(MedSci) University of Glasgow, PhD(Glas.)
Expertise
Expert in public health nutrition and social care, with a focus on traditional diets, Meals on Wheels services, and fostering impactful collaborations to improve health, sustainability, and community wellbeing.
Current positions
Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
Angeliki's expertise spans traditional dietary patterns, nutrition and social care integration, and community-focused health initiatives. A pioneer in Meals on Wheels research, Angeliki has led innovative projects that influence social care policy and practice nationally and internationally, fostering collaborations with NGOs, local authorities, and academic institutions, such as Harvard University.
Her papers are contributing to global discussions on sustainable nutrition and health. Her research on the Mediterranean diet has shaped local and national policies, including the Bristol Eating Better Award, which helped the city achieve Gold Sustainable Food City status in 2021.
As Faculty Postgraduate Research Director, Angeliki oversees the recruitment, training, and support of over 800 PGR students, championing inclusivity, community engagement, and academic excellence. She is passionate about fostering innovation in teaching, having introduced flipped classroom models and interactive learning strategies that enhance student experience and employability.
Committed to civic engagement, Angeliki regularly shares her expertise through public workshops, collaborations with social care practitioners, and mentoring early-career researchers. Her work exemplifies the integration of research, teaching, and real-world impact, advancing knowledge and improving lives both locally and globally.
Research interests
Angeliki's research focuses on understanding the factors that influence dietary behaviour and developing strategies to improve dietary habits to prevent chronic disease.
Her specialist area of research is the exploration of traditional dietary patterns (definition, assessment of adherence, barriers and facilitators to adherence, acceptability, promotion, effect on chronic disease risk factors and incidence), by integrating theoretical models of behaviour change into the development of interventions.
Angeliki's research expands to the investigation of services for adults with care and support needs, particularly Meals on Wheels and community meals. This involves qualitatively exploring views and experiences of service users and providers and evaluating effects of services on nutritional, health and social care outcomes.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Mapping Meals on Wheels provision: Developing and testing an interactive map to raise awareness of services
Principal Investigator
Description
The aim of this project is to develop an interactive map of Meals on Wheels providers in the UK, which can be used to raise awareness of services. The objective…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/05/2024 to 31/10/2024
Nutritional risks from vector-borne plant viral disease
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/10/2023 to 17/05/2024
The significance of home-delivered meals among Meals on Wheels service users and their referrers: co-producing knowledge translation tools to add value to qualitative findings
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/05/2023 to 31/07/2023
Models of Meals on Wheels provision in England: a rapid review
Principal Investigator
Description
The aim of the proposed NIHR Research Capability Funding project is to conduct a rapid review of the grey literature, in order to document existing models of provision of the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
27/03/2023 to 31/07/2023
Towards Understanding And Management Of Vector-borne Plant Virus Impacts On Nutrition In A Changing Climate
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Vector-borne plant viruses and the diseases they cause (plant VBDs) provide a functional link between climate and human health. Weather and climate both impact insect vector populations over short and…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/12/2022 to 15/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
Individual, social and environmental determinants of sugar-sweetened beverages intake in Mexico
Supervisors
Defining the traditional Mexican diet and evaluating its role in non-communicable disease outcomes
Supervisors
Social Determinants of Obesity-Related Behaviours (Diet, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviours) among the Chilean Population
Supervisors
Sleep and diet in people with Type 2 Diabetes
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/02/2024Accessing Meals on Wheels
Health Expectations
‘The service, I could not do without it…’: A qualitative study exploring the significance of Meals on Wheels among service users and people who refer them to the service
Health and Social Care in the Community
The effect of the Mediterranean diet on metabolic health
Nutrients
Recent publications
03/02/2025Exploring the lived experience of economic insecurity and health among people accessing charity-run food provision services in Bristol, UK
Journal of Biosocial Science
Exploring the traditional Chinese diet and its association with health status
Nutrition Reviews
Development of an index to assess adherence to the Traditional Chinese Dietary pattern - a modified Delphi study
Accessing Meals on Wheels
Health Expectations
From research to knowledge translation
Health Expectations
Teaching
Angeliki is convening the unit Nutrition, Disease and Public Health, a core unit in the MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health.