School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Dietetics Research Unit

The dietetics program at Deakin University has a significant research component driven by the professional expertise of the teaching and research staff. The diversity of research areas encompasses the application of dietetics in clinical, community and food service settings as well as health education research.

Members of the Dietetics Research Unit have research programs that centre around:

malnutrition identification
dietary approaches to hypertension
osteoporosis
nutrition in wound healing
immuno-enhancing nutrients and surgical recovery
weight and muscle loss in advanced cancer
food choice and its impact on health of at-risk groups in the community
nutrition in the frail elderly
nutritional adequacy of home-delivered meals
educational research and practice including interprofessional education

Senior Researchers
Judith Appleton
Dr Tim Crowe
Claire Margerison
Prof. Caryl Nowson
Dr Sharleen O’Reilly
Adam Walsh

Dietetics@Deakin Newsletters

The Dietetics program at Deakin produces regular newsletters which profile a variety of student, staff and teaching related activities
within the program. The newsletter is distributed to students, staff and the general dietetics profession. The newsletter archive is following.

Volume 4, Issue 3 (September 2008)
Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 2008)
Volume 4, Issue 1 (March 2008)

Volume 3, Issue 4 (December 2007)
Volume 3, Issue 3 (September 2007)
Volume 3, Issue 2 (June 2007)
Volume 3, Issue 1 (February 2007)

Volume 2, Issue 4 (November 2006)
Volume 2, Issue 3 (August 2006)
Volume 2, Issue 2 (May 2006)
Volume 2, Issue 1 (February 2006)

Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2005)
Volume 1, Issue 1 (August 2005)