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There are thousands and thousands of research papers out there. Some are never cited and some are never even read. As an academic and knowledge worker its important for me to share this unfound knowledge where I can.

This is why I have created this new show, today’s paper, with the image of a classic academic’s desk and cheeky cherry on top to indicate that I am cherry picking papers relevant to my topic area and to what i think is important to share.

My name is Dr Nathan Cook and I am a lecturer and researcher at The University of Queensland School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

Today's Paper interviewed successful hospital foodservices around the world about how they went about diverting food waste from landfill.

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221226722301763X

First author profile: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/45628

Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Food waste recovery hierarchy: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/wasted-food-scale

How to cite this article:

Cook N, Porter J, Goodwin D, Collins J. Diverting food waste from landfill in exemplar hospital Foodservices: A qualitative study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2024 Jun 1;124(6):725-39.

Links:

My website: https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cookn96/

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.ncook/

Our sponsor

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Dr Mikaela Wheeler is a lecturer in the School of Public Health and has clinical and research expertise as a dietitian-nutritionist in residential aged care and community settings. Using mixed methods and co-design methodology, her research focuses on improving the lives of older people through system design to tackle imminent problems, including poor nutrition, social isolation, loneliness, and specialist care for people living with dementia. We discuss her career pathway and how she got into her niche area of research and teaching at The University of Queensland. We also discuss her current expereince of transition into parental leave with the pressue of academic work. Her order - Peppermint tea.

Mikala researcher profile: https://public-health.uq.edu.au/profile/4624/mikaela-wheeler

Mikala linked in: https://au.linkedin.com/in/mikaela-wheeler-apd

Research paper mentioned: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1747-0080.70002

Our sponsor: https://www.instagram.com/ottercoffeeco/

My website: https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

There are thousands and thousands of research papers out there. Some are never cited and some are never even read. As an academic and knowledge worker its important for me to share this unfound knowledge where I can.

This is why I have created this new show, today’s paper, with the image of a classic academic’s desk and cheeky cherry on top to indicate that i am cherry picking papers relevant to my topic area and to what i think is important to share.

My name is Dr Nathan Cook and I am a lecturer and researcher at The University of Queensland School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

Today's Paper assessed and quantified the proportion of ultra-processed foods utilised in a sample of Australian hospitals using cook fresh foodservice systems, to determine types of ultra-processed foods available in each of the menu categories.

Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1747-0080.70083
UPFs: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova
First author profile: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/51382-priscila-machado

How to cite this article: Machado P, Cook N, Lawrence M, Forrester M, Patrick R, Porter J. Ultra-processed food supply in hospitals: A cross-sectional analysis of Australian hospitals usingcook fresh foodservices. Nutrition & Dietetics. 2026;1‐14. doi:10.1111/1747-0080.70083

My website: https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cookn96/

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.ncook/

Callum Davies is an elite Australian middle distance runner in the final months of his PhD investigating the biomechanics of running at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland. His PhD explores the difference in biomechanics at the ankle, knee and hip between elite and sub elite runners. We discuss his studies, writing the first ever warm up protocol for research on runners, and exploring the impact of calf muscle fatigue on running performance between different groups and its effect on their running efficiency. Callum recruited 60 participants throughout his PhD including some of Australias best marathoners providing his a very niche dataset for the literature. His order - a tall glass of water.

Linked in - https://au.linkedin.com/in/callum-davies-4618632bb

Paper - https://tinyurl.com/mr3nt96h

Our Sponsor - https://www.instagram.com/ottercoffeeco/

Website - https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

Kiara is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, holding a Bachelor of Exercise and Nutrition Science and Masters in Dietetic Studies from The University of Queensland. She is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy, with her research focusing on adopting a complex systems approach to understand the factors influencing children’s dietary behaviours in Springfield to help inform where to intervene to promote system-wide change. We discuss here research journey until now, what is systems science and how she is applying it, systems dynamics lingo and a little systems science history. Her Order - English Breakfast Tea (leaf brew/no bag).

Linked in - https://au.linkedin.com/in/kiara-too-a2025b268

Paper - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42277555/

Our Sponsor - https://www.instagram.com/ottercoffeeco/

Website - https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

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 region. Jeremy is a multidisciplinary researcher working across environmental sciences and social sciences with a primary focus on political ecology. We discuss his research pathway until now, food system history and archaeology, unique findings on obesity and work and of course his home town of the UK. His order - Her order – instant coffee with a side of Coke Zero.  

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Jeremy Farr

https://au.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-farr-83a445252

https://social-science.uq.edu.au/profile/2969/jeremy-farr

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My website

https://www.drnathancook.com.au/

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.  

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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/  

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).  

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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/

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.  

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Research profile - https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/l/simon-lockrey 

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-simon-lockrey-b206b115/ 

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Journal article to read (abstract only) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265635319_The_Ecocraze_a_Case_Study_Negotiating_a_Greener_Product_Design_Landscape 

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Book recommendation - https://www.amazon.com.au/Hands-Time-Watchmakers-Rebecca-Struthers/dp/0063048701  

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.

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Research profile

https://experts.deakin.edu.au/36702-emily-denniss

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilydenniss/