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Teaching Interests

I teach the following topics in the Graduate Studies in Public Health programme:

• Qualitative research methods (including short course)
• Food policy for public health practice (including short course)
• Public Health: Frameworks for change

I also teach in the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) where I co-coordinate the topic Public Health Studies.

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Research Interests

My research interests concern the politics of food, food security and health promotion. This involves an examination of the social and cultural determinants of food choice and distribution at the level of the family and the community, including efforts to change eating habits. My research interest also concern food regulation and legislation, new food technologies, and national and international food policy. Methodologically, research combining quantitative and qualitative forms of inquiry is of interest. I am also interested in research on interventions to influence social and economic determinants of food choice and ways to increase food security. Recent and ongoing research projects include an analysis of the moral history of public health nutrition; an ethnography of family food habits; an investigation of the inclusion of environmental and social factors in nutrition promotion; the use of action research in professional development; public perceptions of trust in the food supply; and, mapping food access in metro and rural South Adelaide.

I have supervised to completion PhD theses in health promotion partnerships; the social construction of 'ethnic cuisines'; and food security and nutrition in homeless youth.

I welcome the opportunity to share my research interests with others, and am always interested in discussing research ideas with postgraduate students.

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Key and Recent Publications

Books and book chapters

Coveney, J. Food, morals and meaning . London : Routledge (2 nd edition) 2006.

Coveney, J. Aging and Eating In Foucault and Aging , ed by J. Powell and A. Wahidin. Nova Science Press: New York 2006.

Caraher, M. Coveney, J . Lang T. Food, health and globalisation: Is health promotion still relevant? in Promoting Health: Global Issues and Perspectives ed by A. Scriven and S. Garman . UK : Palgrave Publishers. 2005.

Savige G, Dalais F, Wahlqvist M, Coveney J. & Fallowfield H Food Safety in Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand ed by S. Cameron, H. Fallowfield, N. Cromar, Melbourne: Oxford University Press 2004.

Coveney, J . The government of the table in The Social Appetite: A sociology of food and nutrition . (2nd edition) ed by J. Germov and L. Williams, Oxford : Oxford University Press 2004.

Selected Refereed articles

Coveney, J. Food and trust: Building an Australian picture. Public Health Nutrition (in press)

Coveney, J. The politics of food . South Australian Public Health Bulletin , 4 (1) 3-5 2007.

Ip, J, Mehta, K, Coveney, J. A qualitative study to explore parents' perception of the influence of television food advertising on children's food choices. Nutrition and Dietetics. 64, 50-58 2007.

Handsley E, Nehmy C, Mehta C and Coveney J . Media, public health and law: a lawyers primer on the food advertising debate. Media and Arts Law Review 12(1)  87-106 2007.

O'Dwyer L, Coveney, J. Scoping Supermarket Availability and Accessibility by Socioeconomic Status in Adelaide , Health Promotion Journal of Australia . 17(3), 240-246 2006.

Coveney, J. A qualitative study of socio-economic differences in parental lay knowledge of food and health: implications for public health nutrition practice. Public Health Nutrition, 8 (3), 290-297, 2005 View abstract

Riley, M. Coveney, J. Atkins and the new diet revolution - is it really time for regime change? Medical Journal of Australia , 101 (10), 526-7, 2004.

Smith, A. Coveney, J, Carter P. Jolley, G. Laris, P. The Eat Well SA project: an evaluation-based case study in building capacity for promoting healthy eating. Health Promotion International, 19 (3), 327-334, 2004. View full text

Caraher, M. Coveney, J. Public health nutrition, health promotion and food policy. Public Health Nutrition 7(5), 591-598, 2004.

Coveney, J. Why food policy is critical to public health. Critical Public Health 12 (2) 99-105, 2003.

Coveney, J. Bunton, R In pursuit of the study of pleasure. Health 7 (2) 161-179, 2003. View full text

Coveney, J. What does the research on food and families tell us? Implications for nutrition and dietetic practice. Nutrition and Dietetics , 59 (2), 113-119, 2002.

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Professional Associations

• National Public Health Nutrition Network
• Australian Public Health Nutrition Academic Collaboration
• The Public Health Association of Australia
• The Dietitians Association of Australia (Chairperson of Western Australian Branch 1988-89)
• ANZAME: The Association for Health Professional Education
  

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Community Activity

• Public Health Nutrition Interest Group, Dietitians Association of Australia (Convenor)
• Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group, and Food Legislation and Regulation Advisory Group, The Public Health Association of Australia
• Community Foodies, Noarlunga Community Health Services, South Australia
• South Australian Public Health Nutrition Network
  

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Current Advocacy Issues

• Coalition on Food Advertising to Children (CFAC)
• Coalition for a Healthy Australian Food Supply (CHAFS)

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