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The Cooks Community podcast is a place for us to share discussion. I want this space to be somewhere people can come for inspiration, to listen in on a conversation and hopefully learn something in the process. The Cook ‘N’ Goals show interviews motivated people who are following their passion, HDR Brews speaks to academics about their area of research and Penne & Red Sauce discusses an area of Sports Nutrition. More episodes to come, enjoy. If this show provides you value you can donate to support Nathan's research efforts https://donate.stripe.com/28o8z6aVh6JIdbOaEE | ABN 98 873 411 521

  1. 08/12/2025

    Local food systems | Dr Joanna Horton

    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.    - 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/

    43 min

  2. 08/05/2025

    Children & Screen Time | Dr George Thomas

    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).   -  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/

    51 min

  3. 07/28/2025

    Sustainable Design | Professor Simon Lockrey

    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.   -  Research profile - https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/l/simon-lockrey  - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-simon-lockrey-b206b115/  - Journal article to read (abstract only) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265635319_The_Ecocraze_a_Case_Study_Negotiating_a_Greener_Product_Design_Landscape  - Book recommendation - https://www.amazon.com.au/Hands-Time-Watchmakers-Rebecca-Struthers/dp/0063048701

    54 min

  4. 04/30/2025

    Dr Emily Denniss | Nutrition misinformation online

    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. - Research profile https://experts.deakin.edu.au/36702-emily-denniss LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilydenniss/

    47 min

  5. 03/30/2025

    Dr Stephen Townsend | Sports historian & concussion

    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 Stephen Townsend is a lecturer in sport sociocultural studies with the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. His PhD investigated MuhammadAli and how he was viewed in black only newspapers during 1960-1975. Steven also nearly got the chance to meet him during this time. We discuss his research journey from sports teacher to PhD, his big hitting research team includinginternational experts, a unique story of one of the first documented domestic violence murders where the guilty pleaded insanity, the reality of academia and what it’s like to have the same job as Indiana Jones. His order – small soy capfrom the UQ pool. - Research profile https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/1154/stephen-townsend- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-townsend-446369b3/

    57 min

  6. 02/22/2025

    Ethan Rogers | Caffeine and Esports Performance

    High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. Thissmall show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Ethan Rogers is in the final stages of his PhD write up having a full draft in hand already! A unique perspective as a trained dietitian, he is interested in Esports performance (e.g. online gaming). We discuss the background and financial success of Esports, his journey to beginning hisPhD (which I humbly forgot I supported), the outcomes of his published work on caffeine and Esports performance + health benefits, his recent trip to Europe to share his findings and his favourite re-watched show – the office. His order – Gold Coast Water (better than Brisbane water).  - Research profile https://research.qut.edu.au/epowr/people/ethan-rogers/-  Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanrogers93/

    52 min

  7. 01/19/2025

    Brooke Devlin | Intermittent fasting

    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. Brooke’s interest is in sports nutrition and separately type 2 diabetes. We discuss her career history from masters of dietetics at Griffith through to PhD at La Trobe, a research only position at ACU, back to La Trobe, and now as a lecturer at UQ. Brooke’s PhD was on sports nutrition in a team environment but showed the importance of applied interventions to individuals need e.g. caffeine intake and genetic snips. Brooke is now investigating the importance of the ‘what’ when it comes to peoples food intake who are using intermittent fasting to manage their diabetes, the use of continuous glucose monitors, and the difference between time restricted eating advice and standard dietetic practice.  Her Order – Iced latte on skim milk Researcher Profile - https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/38711 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-devlin-6ba96a51/?originalSubdomain=au

    33 min

  8. 01/12/2025

    Clare Collins | Career to now

    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. Laureate Professor Clare Collins is a famous Australian dietitian who is known by many from her appearances in the media, such as on Triple J with Dr Karl, however there is so much more to Clare than you would know and this is where to hear it. Clare was very generous with her advice on how to succeed in academia. We discuss her current research on genetics and nutrition, past research on obesity in children, dietary assessment, and biomarker assessment, media training, research funding, career history, cystic fibrosis, the juggling of dietetics work, some of the timelines with academic work, and no money no time. Her order - Innisvale tea combo. Research profile - https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/clare-collins Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/profclarecollinsao/?originalSubdomain=au

    56 min
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The Cooks Community podcast is a place for us to share discussion. I want this space to be somewhere people can come for inspiration, to listen in on a conversation and hopefully learn something in the process. The Cook ‘N’ Goals show interviews motivated people who are following their passion, HDR Brews speaks to academics about their area of research and Penne & Red Sauce discusses an area of Sports Nutrition. More episodes to come, enjoy. If this show provides you value you can donate to support Nathan's research efforts https://donate.stripe.com/28o8z6aVh6JIdbOaEE | ABN 98 873 411 521

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  • Creator
    Dr Nathan Cook
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    83
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dr Nathan Cook
  • Show Website
    The Cooks Community