The Cooks Community
The Cooks Community
Nathan Cook
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.
Susannah Ayre | Parents versus brother versus sister during the family meal time
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 Susannah Ayre is interested in the family meal time. Specifically how parents navigate siblings during this daily ritual and how feeding interventions may be tailored to better suit their needs and priorities. We discuss her very interesting methods including Go Pros putting her as a fly on the wall in Australian family homes, her unique placement experience as an undergraduate dietitian overseas, her preliminary results of how children have been interacting with food during some of her studies and her very cool research paper title. Her order - Iced Peach Tea  QUT - https://research.qut.edu.au/wccnr/people/susannah-ayre/ Susannah on Twitter - https://twitter.com/susannah_ayre
Feb 13, 2023
43 min
Special episode: Janeane Dart + Gabrielle Brand | Verbatim theatre
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. This is a special episode of the podcast where I talk to Janeane Dart (Senior Lecturer, Nutrition Dietetics & Food) and Gabrielle Brand Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery) about their personal research careers, however we do spend a lot of the conversation delving into their plenary session at last years Dietitians Australia conference where a verbatim theatre performance was displayed based on one of Janeane's PhD papers. Janeane completed 100 interviews with dietitians in practice, as academics and as students to understand professionalism in dietetics. This was a huge hit at the conference last year and I can't wait to see what these two do next. Their orders - lemon myrtle tea & a Melbourne breakfast.  Gabrielle's recommendations 1. Through the Looking Glass Space to New Ways of Knowing : A Personal Research Narrative https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol20/iss4/12/  2. Embedding Indigenous knowledges and voices in planetary health educationPlease see article here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519622003084 Also BIG Magic - Creative Living beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert  https://www.booktopia.com.au/big-magic-elizabeth-gilbert/book/9781408866757.html?source=pla&gclid=Cj0KCQiA8aOeBhCWARIsANRFrQEnViWrSmU6ZrolXCBiNc-NZLGWmqUiQzWLTDPbg0vbmKB_sYOPreYaAjlBEALw_wcB  Janeane's recommendations  1. "We Are Our Own Worst Enemies": A Qualitative Exploration of Sociocultural Factors in Dietetic Education Influencing Student-Dietitian Transitions https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35346871/  2. Intellectual streaking: The value of teachers exposing minds (and hearts) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28415892/ 
Feb 5, 2023
57 min
Lauren Ball | Healthy Primary Care
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
Jan 17, 2023
51 min
Patricia Ribeiro de Melo | Food & Nutrition Policy Development
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 
Jan 10, 2023
53 min
Simon Holloway | Vegepod
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/
Dec 20, 2022
45 min
Annet Hoek | Sustainable Food
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/
Dec 15, 2022
58 min
Launch
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.
Dec 9, 2022
6 min
Zoe Davidson | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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 - #podcast #podcasting #new #newpodcast #newepisode #episode #itunes #spotify #podbean
Dec 9, 2022
50 min
Danielle Cave | Foodservice, aged care, malnutrition + a way to fix it
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. Danielle Cave is 1 day from submitting her PhD thesis on aged-care foodservices and the occurrence of food fortification in these settings. We discuss the need for versatility in this setting and personalisation of nutrition services for these residents. There are some very important questions asked in the 6 studies which span Danielle’s research including why aren’t previous strategies sustained in practice? How to use data collection tools to measure fortified food acceptability by patients? What do staff think about the usability of fortification products? and can a liquid based fortification strategy support protein consumption in these patients and what is its acceptability? Listen in to find out more. Her order – an iced latte. Enjoy - Danielle Cave - https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/3583/danielle-cave  LinkedIN- https://au.linkedin.com/in/daniellecaveapd  - The Cooks Community - https://www.instagram.com/thecookscommunity/
Oct 11, 2022
1 hr
Lachlan Mitchell | Energy expenditure, body composition changes and the metabolic adaptations experienced
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 Lachlan Mitchell is interested in sports nutrition and exercise. His original research journey started in understanding the dietary strategies used by natural bodybuilding competitors in the lead up and post competition phases with the late Associate Professor Helen O’Connor as his primary supervisor; a privilege which is still serving him today. He has started a dream position as a lecturer at the Australia Catholic University in Sydney nearly one year ago where he has started to plan his new research in energy expenditure, body composition changes and the metabolic adaptations experienced during this time. We discuss his research journey during his PhD and post doc in Dublin where he looked at obesity in the adolescent population inside a dataset of 20,000, natural bodybuilding, and his aspiration to contribute to the Sports Nutrition profession here in Australia. Listen in to find out more. His order – the worlds drink of choice to survive, water. Enjoy - Lachlan Mitchell - https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/researcher/8x14x/lachlan-mitchell Twitter - https://twitter.com/doclach5195 - The Cooks Community - https://www.instagram.com/thecookscommunity/
Oct 4, 2022
1 hr 2 min
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