Dame Theresa Mary Marteau, DBE, FMedSci, FAcSS (born 7 March 1953) is a British health psychologist, professor, and director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge,[1] Fellow and director of studies for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge.[2]
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| Born | Thesea Mary Marteau 7 March 1953 |
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| Awards | DBE (2017) |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Perceptions of diabetes in childhood: a study of parents and physicians |
| Website | http://www.bhru.iph.cam.ac.uk/ |
Education
editMarteau was educated at St Michael's Convent Grammar School,[3][failed verification] the London School of Economics and Political Science[4][failed verification] and Wolfson College, Oxford.[5][failed verification] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in social psychology, a master's in abnormal (clinical) psychology and a PhD in health psychology.
Career and research
editHer first academic post was as a lecturer in health psychology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1986,[6] followed by a senior lectureship in 1993 then professorship at King's College, London[7] She left in 2010 to take up her current post at the University of Cambridge.
Marteau's research focused initially on the behavioural impact of communicating personalised risk information about preventable diseases for risks that could be reduced were recipients to change their behaviour.[8][9] The null findings led her to switch her research focus to developing and evaluating interventions that target non-conscious as opposed to the conscious processes targeted by risk information.[10][11]
Awards and honours
editMarteau was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences,[12] and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences,[13] both in 2001.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Her citation reads:
Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Cambridge University, is a distinguished health psychologist who has established a world-class behaviour change unit. She has demonstrated that Government policies should look at population-level interventions as well as those that focus on individuals, putting the concept of “nudge” into practice. She has been the Principal Investigator for the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health and pioneered research into how the environment affects people’s behaviour.[14]
Personal life
editMarteau was in a partnership with Dr William Jonathan Boyce from 1983 until 1998.[citation needed] They have two children.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "The Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) - University of Cambridge". www.bhru.iph.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Christs College Cambridge -". www.christs.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "St. Michael's Catholic Grammar School". www.st-michaels.barnet.sch.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "LSE Home". lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Wolfson College, Oxford". www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Campuses". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "King's College London".
- ^ Marteau, Theresa M; French, David P; Griffin, Simon J; Prevost, A T; Sutton, Stephen; Watkinson, Clare; Attwood, Sophie; Hollands, Gareth J (2010). "Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (10): CD007275. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007275.pub2. PMID 20927756.
- ^ Hollands, Gareth J; French, David P; Griffin, Simon J; Prevost, A Toby; Sutton, Stephen; King, Sarah; Marteau, Theresa M (2016). "The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: Systematic review with meta-analysis". BMJ. 352: i1102. doi:10.1136/bmj.i1102. PMC 4793156. PMID 26979548.
- ^ Marteau, T. M; Hollands, G. J; Fletcher, P. C (2012). "Changing Human Behavior to Prevent Disease: The Importance of Targeting Automatic Processes". Science. 337 (6101): 1492–5. Bibcode:2012Sci...337.1492M. doi:10.1126/science.1226918. hdl:1903/24470. PMID 22997327. S2CID 15596499.
- ^ Marteau, Theresa M (2018). "Changing minds about changing behaviour" (PDF). The Lancet. 391 (10116): 116–117. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33324-X. PMID 29353612. S2CID 4252205.
- ^ "Improving Health Through Research - The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Academy of Social Sciences - The National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Professor Theresa Marteau appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire". Christ's College Cambridge. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2018.