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Dr Jeremy Farr is a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI). He is researching enablers and constraints to food system transformation in Australia. Jeremy recently completed his PhD at the University of Queensland. His research explored the palaeoethnobotany of ancient food systems in Zambia and its relevance to contemporary food security in the...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Joanna Horton is a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Queensland in the Centre for Policy Futures investigating food systems. Joanna is interested in local food systems, the policy and governan...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. George Thomas is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation (HWCRI) at the University of Queensland. George is interested in supporting parents with young children and thei...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Professor Simon Lockrey is a researcher at RMIT focussed on design strategies for the circular economy and sustainable outcomes. He has worked in industry and academia with a number of projects including food waste packa...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa whilewe do to. Dr Emily Denniss is a lecturer and researcher in public health nutrition at Deakin University. Emily in interested in nutrition communication online and how this is impacting our dietary patterns. Her PhD investigated mis...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa whilewe do to. Dr Stephen Townsend is a lecturer in sport sociocultural studies with the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. His PhD investigated MuhammadAli and how he was viewed in black only newspapers during 1960-1975....

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. Thissmall show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Ethan Rogers is in the final stages of his PhD write up having a full draft in hand already! A unique perspective as a trained dietitian, he is interested in Esports performance (e.g. online gaming). We discuss the...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Brooke’s interest is in sports nutrition and separately type 2 diabetes. We discuss her career history from masters of dietetics at Griffith through to PhD at La Trobe, a research only position at ACU, back to La T...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Laureate Professor Clare Collins is a famous Australian dietitian who is known by many from her appearances in the media, such as on Triple J with Dr Karl, however there is so much more to Clare than you would know...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Postdoctoral researcher Jaqueline Moura Nadolny is interested in food science. Her unique backgrounud in chemical engineering, nutrition and food places her with a fantastic skillset to explore all questions regard...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Postdoctoral researcher Zoya Huschtscha is interested in nutrition interventions and their impacts on muscle mass in conjunction with resistance training. Specifically, Zoya has worked with milk based beverages, Pa...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD candidate Jack Hetherington is interested in food waste, the food system, animal science and the agriculutral sector. Specifically, supporting the Australian dairy sector to find value in their waste, change th...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD candidate Lina Breik is interested in tube feeding within the home. Specifically, how we can get good, nourishing food in the style of a grandparent home cooked meal into those who are required to be fed by a t...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD candidate Susannah Ayre is interested in the family meal time. Specifically how parents navigate siblings during this daily ritual and how feeding interventions may be tailored to better suit their needs and pr...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. This is a special episode of the podcast where I talk to Janeane Dart (Senior Lecturer, Nutrition Dietetics & Food ) and Gabrielle Brand Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery ) about their person...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Professor Lauren Ball is interested in healthy primary care which means the health care in the community that is provided by the professionals at the first point of call such as general practitioners, allied health...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD Candidate Patricia Ribeiro de Melo is interested in Food and Nutrition Policy development, specifically what influences certain policies to be more successful. Her research is backed by social constructionism a...

Welcome to the Cook 'N' Goals podcast. Today we talk to Simon Holloway who is the co-owner and head of community at Vegepod: Which is a backyard raised vegetable garden enabling everyone, anywhere to grow their own food. We discuss the growth of Vegepod and Simons time before joining the business as a co-owner, how community and country are relevant to growing food, and how the product is being us...

Welcome to the Cook 'N' Goals podcast. Today we talk to Annet Hoek who is a food and consumer science consultant, Annet has completed a PhD in sensory consumer research and eating behaviour and spends her time now as self employed on projects focused around innovation and nutrition and health policy. We discuss Annet's constant pivoting between academia and consultancy and how the two work togethe...

The aim of this podcast is to inspire people to create goals for themselves, push towards them and surpass what they thought possible. Whether it be small goals like running a 4-minute km or big goals like owning a home. I want this space to be somewhere people can come for inspiration, to listen in on a conversation, hopefully learn something and in the process create goals for the future.

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Dr Zoe Davidson is interested in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease which effects young boys and in some cases young girls. It is recognised around age 4 and prevalent in 1/5500 births. We discuss the disease i...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Danielle Cave is 1 day from submitting her PhD thesis on aged-care foodservices and the occurrence of food fortification in these settings. We discuss the need for versatility in this setting and personalisation of...

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Dr Lachlan Mitchell is interested in sports nutrition and exercise. His original research journey started in understanding the dietary strategies used by natural bodybuilding competitors in the lead up and post com...

Join Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian Nathan Cook as he explores an area of exercise science or sports nutrition. - Episode 3: Nathan discusses the science behind the guidelines for carbohydrate intake before, during, and after exercise to optimise performance during training and competition. Enjoy. - Instagram @developmentdietetics

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD Candidate Alex Manson is interested in the opportunity for food to be provided in the school environment. Her thesis is examining perceptions of the current school food system and the features that influence pa...