I am an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University in South Australia. My PhD was in the area of school nutrition education and school canteens and I am still carrying out research in this important area. I am currently evaluating the Right Bite school canteen policy for the DECD and was part of the team which developed the National Healthy Canteen Guidelines commissioned by the Department of Health and Ageing. I have been heavily involved in a number of high profile research grants in the areas of: childhood physical activity, health promoting schools and childhood and adolescent nutrition education. I am a qualitative researcher who is regularly called on to lend research and content expertise to studies involving children's nutrition education, physical activity, health promotion and school food within Australia. My current research is looking at Adolescent Girls Engagement with Physical Activity and I have also published in the area of boys nutrition and physical activity.
Experience
–present
Associate Professor Social Health Sciences, Flinders University
Education
2008
UniSA, PhD
2005
UniSA, Honours (Health Sciences)
2004
UniSA, BAppSci (Human Movement)
Publications
2014
Implementation of mandatory nutritional guidelines in South Australian primary school canteens: A qualitative study, Improving Schools,
2014
My dad's a 'barbie' man and my mum's the cooking girl: Boys and the social construction of food and nutrition, Journal of Child Health Care
2014
It's all about the six-pack: Boys bodies in contemporary Western culture, Journal of Child Health Care
2013
Physical activity and nutrition in low socioeconomic schools: A collaborative health based model between Flinders University and South Adelaide Football Club, Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement
2012
Using Goffman's Theories of Social Interaction to Reflect First Time Mothers' Experiences With the Social Norms of Infant Feeding, Qualitative Health Research
2012
Boys and their teeth: A qualitative investigation of boys' oral health in early childhood, Journal of Child Health Care
2012
Examining primary and secondary school canteens and their place within the school system: a South Australian study, Health Education Research,
2010
Using nutrition education and cooking classes in primary schools to encourage healthy eating, ournal of Student Wellbeing