Postgraduate research students

Maddie Sinclair

m.sinclair.3@research.gla.systa-s.com

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X

Research title: MVLS DTP

Research summary

My research is on the role of dietary guidelines in the transition towards more sustainable diets in the School of Health and Wellbeing. Combining expertise from Psychology and Nutrition, I am interested in behaviour change, sustainability, dietary habits, the use of information and misinformation and barriers to policymaking. So far my research has involved a review of global dietary guidelines, a survey to understand norms, behaviours and attitudes towards the UK dietary guidelines, and a follow-up survey and interviews as part of a wider project to understand barriers, enablers in the changes towards and away from plant-based diets.

I am part of the Complexity Programme at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.

Publications

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2026

Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X, Combet, Emilie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8971 and Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X (2026) A missed opportunity: people do not perceive that UK food-based dietary guidelines communicate sustainable diets. Critical Insights in Agriculture, (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X, Combet, Emilie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8971, Davis, Tess ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-7439 and Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X (2025) Sustainability in food-based dietary guidelines: a review of recommendations around meat and dairy consumption and their visual representation. Annals of Medicine, 57(1), 2470252. (doi: 10.1080/07853890.2025.2470252) (PMID:40052425) (PMCID:PMC11892039)

2024

Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X, Davis, Tess ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-7439, Farrar, Stephanie, Sinclair, Maddie and Wehbe, Lara H. (2024) How (not) to talk about plant-based foods: using language to support the transition to sustainable diets. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 83(3), pp. 142-150. (doi: 10.1017/S0029665123004858) (PMID:38018402)

2023

Gardner, Grace, Burton, Wendy, Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X and Bryant, Maria (2023) Interventions to strengthen environmental sustainability of school food systems: narrative scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11), 5916. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115916) (PMID:37297520) (PMCID:PMC10252980)

This list was generated on Thu May 21 03:59:35 2026 BST.
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Number of items: 4.

Articles

Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X, Combet, Emilie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8971 and Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X (2026) A missed opportunity: people do not perceive that UK food-based dietary guidelines communicate sustainable diets. Critical Insights in Agriculture, (Accepted for Publication)

Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X, Combet, Emilie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8971, Davis, Tess ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-7439 and Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X (2025) Sustainability in food-based dietary guidelines: a review of recommendations around meat and dairy consumption and their visual representation. Annals of Medicine, 57(1), 2470252. (doi: 10.1080/07853890.2025.2470252) (PMID:40052425) (PMCID:PMC11892039)

Papies, Esther K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X, Davis, Tess ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-7439, Farrar, Stephanie, Sinclair, Maddie and Wehbe, Lara H. (2024) How (not) to talk about plant-based foods: using language to support the transition to sustainable diets. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 83(3), pp. 142-150. (doi: 10.1017/S0029665123004858) (PMID:38018402)

Gardner, Grace, Burton, Wendy, Sinclair, Maddie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-288X and Bryant, Maria (2023) Interventions to strengthen environmental sustainability of school food systems: narrative scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11), 5916. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115916) (PMID:37297520) (PMCID:PMC10252980)

This list was generated on Thu May 21 03:59:35 2026 BST.

Supervisors

Conferences

European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Estoril, Portugal, September 2024

Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP), Oxford, April 2024

British Feeding and Drinking Group Conference, Cambridge, April 2024

Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, Edinburgh, March 2024

UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, Glagsow, March 2024

British Feeding and Drinking Group Conference, Leeds, April 2023

Nutrition Society Scottish Section Conference, Glasgow, March 2023

Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP), Oxford, January 2023