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Local food systems | Dr Joanna Horton

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 governance of these systems to be fair, writing novels (very helpful for PhD thesis), and has explored this topic both in her Masters and PhD in Chicago (USA) and Australia respectively. Joanna has also worked at the CSIRO where she in the Data61 Insights Team, helping to develop scenario planning across a range of sectors. Joanna’s PhD explored the strategic challenges and opportunities faced by Australian civic food networks in attempting to influence mainstream outcomes via processes of multistakeholder governance, and examined the case study of the controversial 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to understand how civil society organisations negotiate the trade-offs between strategic participation and boycott.   Her order – Homemade coffee from beans sold by Coffee Mentality in Brisbane.   -Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-horton-ab1629214/?originalSubdomain=au  Researcher profile - https://policy-futures.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/3453/joanna-horton  Journal article - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290112300254X?via%3Dihub  Self-authored book recommendations!  First novel: https://ultimopress.com.au/products/between-you-and-me Second novel: https://ultimopress.com.au/collections/frontpage/products/catching-the-light  Fair Food Futures podcast series: https://fairfoodfutures.buzzsprout.com/  

Children & Screen Time | Dr George Thomas

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 their screen time, secondly the measurement of 24hr movement behaviours among children, and thirdly (timely and new) - sport.  We discuss how to measure screen time (its not just your phone) and how engagement with the screen needs to be considered and not just the time in front of it, his research journey from beginning until now (including some football highlights), parents emotion and concern with their childrens screen time, the use of automated wearable cameras in collecting behavioural data and much more. As someone from Britain, he has seen more of Australia than most east coasters and worked over in Perth before coming back to Brisbane. He is passionate about not making screens the enemy, but supporting parents to understand that screens and tech can be used in a fruitful way. George’s overall message – if you are a patent, you are already doing a great job! His order – British Black Cup of Tea (no biscuits).  - Research profile - https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/7959/george-thomas   LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-thomas-14b93659/  Journal article to read - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12187-019-09663-1  TV recommendation - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31806037/

Sustainable Design | Professor Simon Lockrey

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 packaging and dyson hand dryers, and has expertise in life cycle assessment, leadership, business and quite a unique knowledge of art/design history. Although Simon’s background was engineering for new products, he had a realisation in industry where he switched to instead re-design everyday products to support environmental benefit and have real word impact. He has recently become a Professor (congratulations) and he provides some good advice on how to work with partnerships and groups as well as how to learn from these relationships to push forward. We also discuss some interesting real-life examples of the circular economy in action with businesses such as Samsonite and Alessi and how corporate should be promoting environmental stewardship. His order – a unique option for this show (and a first) - Peroni Zero.  - Research profile - https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/l/simon-lockrey  -LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-simon-lockrey-b206b115/ -Journal article to read (abstract only) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265635319_The_Ecocraze_a_Case_Study_Negotiating_a_Greener_Product_Design_Landscape -Book recommendation - https://www.amazon.com.au/Hands-Time-Watchmakers-Rebecca-Struthers/dp/0063048701  

Dr Emily Denniss | Nutrition misinformation online

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 misinformation and disinformation online, with a particular focus of instagram posts from prominent accounts posting on nutrition content. You'll have to listen in for the astonishing results. Emily is also interested in tackling the problem of ultra-processed foods and is working on this topic currently. We have a genuine conversation over our coffees about the state of nutrition misinformation online mentioning a few famous people in their too. Her order – Cappuccino from Little Bang. -Research profilehttps://experts.deakin.edu.au/36702-emily-denniss LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/emilydenniss/

Dr Stephen Townsend | Sports historian & concussion

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. Steven also nearly got the chance to meet him during this time. We discuss his research journey from sports teacher to PhD, his big hitting research team includinginternational experts, a unique story of one of the first documented domestic violence murders where the guilty pleaded insanity, the reality of academia and what it’s like to have the same job as Indiana Jones. His order – small soy capfrom the UQ pool. -Research profile https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/1154/stephen-townsend-LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-townsend-446369b3/