Dr Zoi Toumpakari
RD, BSc, MSc (Bristol), PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
Zoi Toumpakari is a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Behaviour Change. Her research focuses on upstream determinants of eating behaviour, for example the physical environment, advertising and the role of policies. Specifically, she looks at how features of the eating environment, like where and with whom people eat, influence their food intake and how these could be altered to improve the population's diet. In addition, her research explores the role of dietary and physical activity patterns in the prevention of cardiometabolic health.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Cause And Cure? Targeting The Out Of Home Food Sector To Reduce Diet-related Disease And Obesity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/03/2023 to 31/08/2027
Reducing population exposure to unhealthy commodity advertising: evaluation of the Bristol Advertising and Sponsorship Policy
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
02/01/2023 to 30/06/2025
8121 ESRC Via Liverpool Cause and Cure? Targeting the out of home food sector to reduce diet-related disease and obesity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/09/2022 to 31/08/2027
The public’s role in public health – understanding and negotiating public support for policies designed to improve population health.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022
Automating food aggregation for nutrition and health research
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
03/01/2020 to 31/05/2020
Thesis supervisions
The role of social network analysis in scaling-up and sustaining community-based health programmes in low- and middle-income countries
Supervisors
Using a systems thinking approach to define, understand, and explore the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour and obesity in adolescence, a mixed methods study
Supervisors
What exactly are ‘me’ sized meals for one- to five-year-olds?
Supervisors
Social Determinants of Obesity-Related Behaviours (Diet, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviours) among the Chilean Population
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
27/03/2022Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – proposed methods for online system mapping workshops
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Exploring dietitians’ practice and views of giving advice on dietary patterns to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Where and when are portion sizes larger in young children?
Public Health Nutrition
EvoRecSys
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Recent publications
17/07/2024Ultra-processed food consumption in UK adolescents
European Journal of Nutrition
Advertisement of unhealthy commodities in Bristol and South Gloucestershire and rationale for a new advertisement policy
BMC Public Health
Assessing exposure to outdoor advertisement for products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS)
BMC Public Health
Exploring views of members of the public and policymakers on the acceptability of population level dietary and active-travel policies
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Mediation and moderation of genetic risk of obesity through eating behaviours in two UK cohorts
International Journal of Epidemiology