Meet the academics and graduate researchers involved in the Food Politics and Policy Research Group.
Academic staff
A/Prof Gyorgy Scrinis
Gyorgy Scrinis’ research has examined the politics, policy and philosophy of food and nutrition, with a focus on nutrition science, dietary advice, functional foods, food labelling, animal welfare regulations, the role of transnational corporations, alternative proteins and new technologies of production.
gyorgys@unimelb.edu.au +61390356698Graduate researchers
Lynda Hoare
PhD Topic: Market Gardens and Agroecology Transitions. Supervisors: A/Prof Gyorgy Scrinis, Dr Michael Santhanam-Martin
Aisha Ismail
PhD Topic: A place-based case study of ultra-processed food companies corporate activity, impacts and resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico. Supervisors: A/Prof Gyorgy Scrinis, A/Prof. Simon Batterbury
Sara Guest
PhD Topic: Food Insecurity among University Students in Melbourne: social class, youth agency and practice. Supervisors: A/Prof Jane Dyson, Prof Craig Jeffrey, A/Prof Gyorgy Scrinis.
Beatrice Serini
PhD Topic: Beatrice’s research explores the interplay between folk ontologies of food and scientific ontologies in biomedicine and nutrition science. Beatrice is also a coordinator of Culinary Mind. Primary Supervisor: A/Prof Andrea Borghini, University of Milan, Italy.