This easy-to-navigate site provides some useful top food and nutrition tips from Australian dietitians associated with Health Management www.healthmanagement.com.au. It is user friendly and provides consumers with food information they really want to know. Thank you .....
Academic Mentor
Professor Tony Worsley is Sandra's Academic mentor and PhD Supervisor
Position Chair in Behavioural Nutrition
Email anthony.worsley@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 46743
Campus Burwood
Tony Worsley is Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. His background is in psychology, particularly health psychology and behavioural epidemiology. He has held prior appointments at the University of Adelaide where he was Professor of Public Health, the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition (Head of the Food Policy Research Unit), the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and Otago University (New Zealand) where he was Professor in Social Nutrition. Between 2000 and 2004 he was a Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) Scientific Fellow. He has wide experience in the evaluation of public health nutrition programs, and in the promotion and maintenance of behaviour change. His current research involves several overlapping areas including: behavioural and nutritional epidemiology, studies of products at the food-drug interface, food and nutrition policy research; health and nutrition promotion. He has published widely in scientific and professional journals. He is a co-author of the Body Owner’s Manual, and The Food System.
Academic Advocates for Home Economics
Professor Martin Caraher
Title: Reader in Food and Health Policy
Room: C310
Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 4161
Email: m.caraher@city.ac.uk
Martin is Reader in food and health policy at the dept of Health Management and Food Policy at City University. He originally trained as an environmental health officer in Dublin. After working in the north west of Ireland he developed an interest in the public health and health promotion aspects of the work. He completed his masters and doctorate in London, since 1990 he has been working with Prof Tim Lang on aspects of food policy.
He has worked extensively on issues related to food poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies, the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers markets, food deserts & food access, retail concentration and globalisation.
He is a regular and well-regarded key note speaker and conference presenter at home economics conferences throughout the world.
Sandra and Martin at the Home Economics Institute of Australia's Conference Dinner held in Darwin, Australia in July 2009
Home Economists working as Academics
Dr Janet Reynolds
Email janet.reynolds@qed.qld.gov.au
Email janet.reynolds@qed.qld.gov.au
A Fellow of HEIA Jan has held positions of President, Treasurer and Convenor of the Education Standing Committee. Recently, Jan has edited the book Nutrition the Inside Story worked with Xyris Software to manage the revision of Food Choices and written the HEIA's position paper: Home Economics Education and the Australian Curriculum.
Dr Donna Pendergast
Email: d.pendergast@griffith.edu.au
Professor Donna Pendergast has an active research profile. She has recently conducted research in the following areas: middle years education; middle schooling; early years education; school and policy reform and evaluation; Year 7 into secondary; resilience; generational theory ; Y and Z generations and pedagogy; teacher efficacy; family and consumer sciences research; home economics philosophy; cyberbullying; mentoring; evaluation of professional development processes; food literacy; gifted and talented students.
She has published widely, including her edited book "Teaching Middle Years" which has been selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. This year her book "The Millennial Adolescent" that focuses on teaching Y Generation students was released. Donna conducts professional development for teachers.
She has published widely, including her edited book "Teaching Middle Years" which has been selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. This year her book "The Millennial Adolescent" that focuses on teaching Y Generation students was released. Donna conducts professional development for teachers.
Read more about what Donna has to say about Food literacy and the links with childhood obesity
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Academic bloggers
Dr Johannes Brug recently visited the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity Conference held in Melbourne, June 13-18th June. Read more about Johannes' views on the conference and latest nutrition research at http://johannesbrug.blogspot.com/
My Favourite Home Economists
He shared this marvellous quip with me (and several hundred others..) but it's a great line that sums up our home economics expertise and I would like to share it with you
"You wouldn't call an engineer a mechanic, why would you call a home economist a cook?"
In my interview with James for my first PhD study he shared the following ...
..On kitchen gadgets and troubleshooting
...and if you teach kids how to cook using gadgets such as portable electric grills you are teaching kids how to reheat not to cook. You also need to teach students about kitchen gadgets and appliances- for example teach them that a food processor is not an appropriate equipment to make a sponge because the air inlet is small. And troubleshooting- so that consumers know why their pastry is tough because they have added too much water, or they have over whipped their egg whites . And I try and talk about it in a very funky way but applied to everyday life.
On practice and motivation
...if food is taught as an enjoyable thing then practice will come. Practice is essential- you can do well the first time but you can do better the next time. It’s like learning to drive – practice brings speed, competence and ongoing motivation.
Did you know that you can buy James' Whisk App for $5-99 via I-Tunes? I love the "shake your I-Pad or I-Phone" to come up with a recipe idea for that exact time of the day.
So if you're running out of ideas and want to solve the "What shall we have for dinner?" then this App is for you!! Visit www.whiskapp.com
Jay Deagon
Jay has created a great web site http://homeecconnect.ning.com/about that aims to connect home economists from around the world.
I love Jay's 'About The Research' philosophy.
I do recommend you to visit this site and consider joining up to share the joy and latest research in home economics!!
And thank you to James McIntosh for connecting us.
Fred - the WEBER BBQ Meister
Visit my brother-in-law's wiki web site at http://bbqwiki.nl/ (you can translate it from Dutch into English using Google Translator) and find out all there is to know about cooking on the Weber!!
Here is a photo of Fred's delicious wares taken when we were on our holiday in Limburg in May 2008..
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