Faculty
Presentation
Marta M. Marques is an Assistant Professor at the National School of Public Health - NOVA in the area of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a member of the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) and a collaborator of the Centre for Behaviour Change (University College London, UK).
Her main area of research focuses on the development of methods and theories to advance behavioral science and their application in the development and evaluation of complex (including digital) interventions aimed at changing health behaviors in a public health context.
Over the years, she has participated in various expert committees (e.g. World Health Organization Be Health Be Mobile, Portuguese Task Force on Behavioral Sciences COVID-19). She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Health Psychology.
She has also held positions as a Senior Researcher (FCT CEEC) at the NOVA School of Medical Sciences (Portugal), as a Marie Curie fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), as a Research Associate at University College London (UK) and at the University of Newcastle (UK), and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the University of Lisbon.
She is currently involved in several national and international consortium research projects (e.g. funded by Horizonte), as well as community outreach projects (e.g. Cities Changing Diabetes).
She has a PhD in Health Psychology from the University of Leiden, Holland (2015), a Master's degree in Health Psychology from ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal and a degree (pre-Bologna) in Applied Psychology (Clinical).
Teaching
Pedagogical Coordination:
Development and Implementation of Behavioral Change Interventions in Health (Optional).
Participation in Teaching:
- Socio-behavioral research in public health, Doctoral Program in Public Health
- Advanced Qualitative Research Methodologies, Doctoral Program in Health Technology and Well-being Sciences
- Advanced Studies Seminar in Health Sciences and Well-being, Doctoral Program in Health Sciences and Technologies and Well-being
- Society, Health and Lifestyles, Master's Degree in Health Promotion
Research
She is a member of the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) and a collaborator of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, UK.
Her main area of research focuses on the development of methods and theories to advance behavioral science and their application in the development and evaluation of complex interventions (including digital ones) aimed at changing health behaviors in a public health context.
She has also held positions as a Senior Researcher (FCT CEEC) at the NOVA School of Medical Sciences (Portugal), as a Marie Curie fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), as a Research Associate at University College London (UK) and at the University of Newcastle (UK), and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the University of Lisbon.
She is currently involved in several national and international consortium research projects (e.g. funded by Horizonte), as well as community outreach projects (e.g. Cities Changing Diabetes).
Ongoing projects:
Randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation of a person-centred digital intervention to prevent diabetes in high-risk adults | Workpackage Leader
Cancer prevention vs cancer treatment: The rare tumour risk syndromes battle | Workpackage Leader
Advancing Digital Health Behaviour Change Precision: Development of a novel method for classifying and testing personalised behaviour change techniques | PI
SEURO - Scaling Europe
Publications
Book:
Guerreiro, M.P., Félix, I.B., & Marques, M.M. (Eds.) (2023). A practical guide on behaviour change support for self-managing chronic disease. Springer Open Book. ISBN: 3031200098
Book Chapter:
- Michie S., Marques M.M., Norris E., Johnston M. (2018). Theories and Interventions in Health Behavior Change. In T.A. Revenson & R.A. Guring (Eds.), Handbook of Health Psychology (pp.69-88). NY: Taylor & Francis.
Articles:
- Marques M.M., Wright A.J., Corker E., Johnston M., West R., Hastings J., Zhang L., Michie S. (2023). The Behaviour Change Technique Ontology: Transforming the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v2. Wellcome Open Research 2023, 8:308. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19363.1
- Marques M.M., Matos M., Mattila E., Encantado J.,...,& Palmeira A.L. (2021). A Theory-and Evidence-Based Digital Intervention Tool for Weight Loss Maintenance (NoHoW Toolkit): Systematic Development and Refinement Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(12): e25305- e25305. doi: 10.2196/25305.
- Guerreiro M.P., Strawbridge J., Cavaco A.M., Félix I., Marques M.M., & Cadogan C. (2021). Development of a European competency framework for health and other professionals to support behaviour change in persons self-managing chronic disease. BMC Medical Education, 21(1): 287. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021- 02720-w.
- Keegan K., Heino M., Marques M.M., Stenius M., Beattie M., Ehbrecht F., Hagger M.S., Hardeman W., & Hankonen N. (2020). The compendium of self-enactable techniques to change and self-manage motivation and behaviour v.1.0. Nature Human Behaviour, 4: 215-223. doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0798-9
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4797-9557
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aZdTiKgAAAAJ&hl=en
External Action
Over the years he has taken part in various expert committees, including:
World Health Organization Be Health Be Mobile
Portuguese Task Force on Behavioral Sciences COVID-19
She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Health Psychology.