Personal profile
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 in shaping eating behaviour. She is also interested in the role of dietary patterns in the prevention of cardiometabolic health.
Her current research is focused on the following:
- How features of the eating environment, like where and with whom people eat, influence adults' and children's diet and how these could be altered to improve nutritional intake.
- The role of the out-of-home food sector on the population's diet
- Evaluating policies of food advertising restrictions to understand impact on people's diet
External positions
Associate Editor, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
1 Sept 2022 → …
External Examiner, Aegean College Omiros Group
1 Aug 2022 → …
Member of ESDN in Public Health, The European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians
1 Apr 2022 → …
Member, British Dietetic Association
1 Jan 2021 → …
Research Groups and Themes
- SPS Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences
Keywords
- Nutrition
- Food environment
- Food adverising
- out-of-home food sector
- adolescents
- adults
- dietary patterns
- determinants of eating behaviour
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – proposed methods for online system mapping workshops
Chavez Ugalde, Y., Toumpakari, Z., White, M., de Vocht , F. & Jago, R., 27 Mar 2022, In: BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22, 1, 16 p., 84.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Exploring dietitians’ practice and views of giving advice on dietary patterns to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study
Moutou, K. E., England, C. Y., Gutteridge, C., Toumpakari, Z., McArdle, P. D. & Papadaki, A., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 35, 1, p. 179-190 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Where and when are portion sizes larger in young children? An analysis of eating occasion size among 1·5-5-year-olds in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (2008-2017)
Porter, A., Toumpakari, Z., Kipping, R. R., Summerbell, C. & Johnson, L., 27 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Public Health Nutrition. p. 1-28Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)157 Downloads (Pure)
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Cause And Cure? Targeting The Out Of Home Food Sector To Reduce Diet-related Disease And Obesity
Toumpakari, Z. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/23 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
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8121 ESRC Via Liverpool Cause and Cure? Targeting the out of home food sector to reduce diet-related disease and obesity
Toumpakari, Z. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/22 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
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Reducing population exposure to unhealthy commodity advertising: evaluation of the Bristol Advertising and Sponsorship Policy
Toumpakari, Z. (Co-Principal Investigator)
2/01/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
Prizes
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Toumpakari, Z. (Recipient), 9 Feb 2022
Prize: Election to learned society