Matthew McDonald

Matthew is a final year PhD candidate at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. His PhD is linked to the Aussie-Fans in Training (Aussie-FIT) program, the Australian adaptation of Football Fans in Training, which uses Aussie Rules Football as a ‘hook’ to engage men. Specifically, he has led work around adapting and implementing Aussie-FIT within rural towns in Western Australia. As part of his PhD Matthew has also recently published a systematic review examining the extent to which socioeconomic factors are considered in randomised trials of men’s weight management interventions. Prior to coming to Australia, he worked for the University of Stirling for 3 years, predominantly on a feasibility trial of a text message-based weight management intervention designed specifically for men. Matthew has a longstanding interest in health inequalities, originating from his time spent working in community health promotion on projects related to food, nutrition, and weight management for NHS Forth Valley.