High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small 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 Lauren Ball is interested in healthy primary care which means the health care in the community that is provided by the professionals at the first point of call such as general practitioners, allied health professionals and nurses. We discuss the importance of healthy primary care, the large team she has created with her very successful funding from the NHMRC, her journey to her new position at the University of Queensland and her massive project on creating Australia's largest master-planned urban environment in Springfield, Queensland. Her order - Sodastream. 

UQ - https://public-health.uq.edu.au/profile/9741/lauren-ball

Lauren's Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfLaurenBall

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. PhD Candidate Patricia Ribeiro de Melo is interested in Food and Nutrition Policy development, specifically what influences certain policies to be more successful. Her research is backed by social constructionism and we discuss some amazing examples in Brazil which inspired her work in the first place, health departments ability to facilitate transformative change and her academic journey from Brazil to Australia to now presenting in Japan at an international conference. Patricia also shares one of her papers outside of her PhD and an interesting narrative review on paradigms in public health nutrition. Her order - Irish Tea. Enjoy 

Welcome to the Cook 'N' Goals podcast. Today we talk to Simon Holloway who is the co-owner and head of community at Vegepod: Which is a backyard raised vegetable garden enabling everyone, anywhere to grow their own food. We discuss the growth of Vegepod and Simons time before joining the business as a co-owner, how community and country are relevant to growing food, and how the product is being used in a variety of settings for multiple causes such as aged care, disability engagement, hospital foodservice and schools. Additionally, we discuss their new in house herb garden and the products international success. Enjoy.

Simon on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-holloway-0a1574a3/

Buy a Vegepod https://vegepod.com.au/

Welcome to the Cook 'N' Goals podcast. Today we talk to Annet Hoek who is a food and consumer science consultant, Annet has completed a PhD in sensory consumer research and eating behaviour and spends her time now as self employed on projects focused around innovation and nutrition and health policy. We discuss Annet's constant pivoting between academia and consultancy and how the two work together, her previous projects on plant based protein substitutes and texture modified foods for the elderly as well as the importance of research impact. We also talk about Annet's home country of the Netherlands and her new move to the Blue Mountains. Enjoy. 

Annet on LinkedIN https://au.linkedin.com/in/annet-hoek-phd-10a9861?trk=public_profile_publication_contributor-image

Annet's website https://annethoek.com/

The aim of this podcast is to inspire people to create goals for themselves, push towards them and surpass what they thought possible. Whether it be small goals like running a 4-minute km or big goals like owning a home. I want this space to be somewhere people can come for inspiration, to listen in on a conversation, hopefully learn something and in the process create goals for the future.

High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This small show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Dr Zoe Davidson is interested in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease which effects young boys and in some cases young girls. It is recognised around age 4 and prevalent in 1/5500 births. We discuss the disease itself, Zoe's research into nutrition strategies to support those with Duchenne, the research funding process, as well as her new interest in other muscular disorders. Her order – An iced cold water to fight the Melbourne heat. Enjoy