School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of HMNBS
Congratulations to Alison Carver, from the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, who was recently awarded the Neil Archbold Memorial Travel Award.
Neil Archbold Memorial Travel Awards are awarded to Deakin University higher degree by research candidates who produce the best peer-reviewed journal articles. The $2500 travel awards are to be used during PhD candidature for research-related travel.
The research Alison conducted during her PhD candidature (under the supervision of co-authors Dr Anna Timperio and Professor David Crawford) was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Urban Health, which is the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Alison’s research focussed on the ground-breaking application of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to objectively measure attributes of the local road environment related to road safety and to assess their associations with physical activity among youth.
Congratulations Alison!
Congratulations to Professor Andy Sinclair (School of Exercise and Nutition Sciences) who has been invited for consultations at the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Fats and Fatty Acids in Human Nutrition in Geneva from 10-14 November 2008.
On Monday 14 July the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences in association with Diabetes Australia-Vic and Deakin YMCA held a free public performance and panel discussion on health and diabetes.
Held at the Box Hill Town Hall, the event featured a performance of award-winning Australian playwright Alan Hopgood’s Six Degrees of Diabetes, followed by an interactive discussion with leading health experts.
Event organisers were honoured to not only feature Alan Hopgood’s play but to have the man himself starring on the night, along with Mathew King and Hamish Hughes. The highly entertaining thirty-minute comedy played out the pub meeting of three old friends—middle-aged men who have enjoyed a life of excess—and their conversation surrounding their individual journeys dealing with diabetes.
Following the performance, the audience, which consisted of health professionals, students, Type 2 diabetics and interested others, was invited to ask questions and gain advice from expert health professionals. Key issues relating to health, diet and exercise were discussed, with particular emphasis on prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes through healthy eating and exercise.
The panel of health experts included:
Professor Trisha Dunning, Chair in Nursing (Barwon Health), Deakin University
Associate Professor Robin Daly, Principal Scientist, University of Melbourne, Western Hospital
Dr Ralph Audehm, General Practitioner, Program and Services Director, Diabetes Australia-Vic
Dr Tim Crowe, Senior Lecturer and Dietitian, Deakin University
Dr Paul Gastin, Senior Lecturer and Exercise Physiologist, Deakin University.
Many thanks to everyone involved in making the event such a great success, particularly to the expert panel, Diabetes Australia-Vic and Deakin YMCA.
Dr. Jenny Veitch was awarded was Doctoral Award of Distinction for the most outstanding research for 2007 from ACHPER (The Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation). Judging criteria were based on academic excellence, creative or original thinking, and possible applications to ACHPER's professional areas. The award was presented at their AGM on 19 May 2008.
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Accolade for Professor Boyd Swinburn
The work of Professor Boyd Swinburn (School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences) has recently been ranked seventh in a list of the fifteen greatest nutrition discoveries since 1976.
Professor Swinburn’s discovery—that obesity is a normal response to an abnormal environment—was the only research in the top fifteen that came from either Australia or New Zealand.
His research represented the first investigation into the role played by the environment in understanding obesity. Previous research had centred on genetic or metabolic abnormalities.
The fifteen discoveries were nominated and ranked at a one-day symposium of nutrition experts held in the Netherlands, and the results were recently published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Professor Swinburn is one of Australia’s leading public health and obesity prevention researchers and is internationally renowned for his work in preventing obesity in children and adolescents.
He is Chair in Population Health, and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention within the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences.
Prior to this, Professor Swinburn was the Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation in New Zealand and an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.
If you are a past graduate of the Bachelor of Food Science and Nutrition or B.App. Sci (Food Science and Nutrition) you may be interested in joining our Alumni. A function to celebrate "10 years of Food Science and Nutrition" is planned for early in 2008. Watch this space.....
Please go to the Food Science and Nutrition Alumni Chapter if you would like to be notified about future events
