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Food Waste Project News

DON'T FEED THE BIN

Here are a couple of great video clips about the prevention of Food Waste. One from Scottish television, and one from the Oxfordshire Waste Partnership.


http://youtu.be/q3deji0AGys 




PhD Scholarship in Environmental Psychology

The Appleton Institute - Plates showing wasted foodSeeking expressions of interest by November 10, 2012

PhD Scholarship available on the ARC Linkage Project: ‘Zeroing in on food waste: Measuring, understanding and reducing food waste’
Tax-exempt scholarship of $28,715 per year for 3 years (standard ARC entitlement) including relocation expenses of $1,520 maximum and thesis allowance of $840
We are seeking an enthusiastic team-player with interests in environmental psychology to join this multi-disciplinary research project and work with the team to design a complementary study in the areas of behaviour change and program evaluation.
For further information on the project or to lodge an EOI, please contact Dr Kirrilly Thompson on 0413 616 650 or Kirrilly.thompson@cqu.edu.au


What has Vicki been up to?

ARC Food Waste Project Vicki Mavrakis has been quite busy over the last few months:

Feb 2012

“One person’s food trash is another person’s treasured meal – insights into understanding why people waste food” presented at the Association of American Geographers conference in New York

July 2012               

“From Food to Food Waste – using ethnographic methods to inform theoretical development” presented at XIII world Congress of Rural Sociology in Lisbon Portugal and Chaired the session on Theoretical Frameworks for Food Waste

August 2012                      

Presentation to WRAP, UK

“Insights into why people waste food” presented to PIRSA


 

Student Award !

ARC Food Waste Project PhD student, Christian Reynolds has been awarded the Waste Management Association of Australia Young Professionals Scholarship for 2012 ! See the Waste Management Association of Australia website here.


Food Waste Project in ON AIR

ARC Food Waste Project student Sandra Davison spoke about her Food Waste research on ABC Radio National recently. To hear the interview / read a transcript click here.


 

ARC Food Waste Project is here....

Plates showing wasted foodThe ARC Food Waste Project has just setup its own minisite here at the CQUniversity website, as well as new Facebook and Twitter pages. These pages will be used to communicate the projects findings, aims and activities such as conference presentations, publications and other interesting news items relating to food waste. Stay tuned......

 

 

International Conference Presentations

ARC Food Waste Project students Sandra Davison and Vicki Mavrakis recently presented at the International Rural Sociology Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Find more information on the conference website here.