Brittany is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Caring Futures Institute, in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. Brittany is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with a background in public health nutrition and experience in working with Aboriginal communities and the child care sector to make healthy food choices. Her research interests include improving children’s diet quality by reducing unhealthy food intake, applying behaviour change theory and creating supportive environments where we live, work, learn and play.
Her PhD was focussed on identifying intervention content to support parents to reduce provision of unhealthy foods to their young children during the transition to pre-school and school. She is leading the deconstructing interventions component of the TOPCHILD Collaboration (www.topchildcollaboration.org)—a project that is bringing together researchers from around the world to transform early childhood obesity prevention, by unpacking past interventions using novel methods to understand how they work, and for whom. She is part of a research program building the evidence for school-provided meals in Australia.
Experience
2020–present
Postdoctoral research fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
2018–2020
Research assistant, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
2015–2018
Research assistant, University of South Australia
2015–2016
Lecturer, University of South Australia
2013–2015
Dietitian, Country Health SA Local Health Network
2011–2013
Dietitian, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network
Education
2020
Flinders University, Doctor of Philosophy
2016
University of South Australia, Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours)
2010
Flinders University, Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics
Grants and Contracts
2022
Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood -Translate
Role:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Funding Source:
National Health and Medical Research Council
2020
TOPCHILD (Transforming Obesity Prevention for CHILDren) Ideas Grant
Role:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Funding Source:
National Health and Medical Research Council
Professional Memberships
Dietetics Association of Australia
International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity