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A/Prof

Gyorgy Scrinis

Associate Professor (Food Politics And Policy)
Agriculture and Food
Food Corporations
Nutrition Science
Public Health
Processed Foods
Sustainable Food Systems
Animal Welfare
Food Policy
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
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Gyorgy Scrinis

 
Division
Science
 
Primary Interest
Food and Nutrition Politics
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Projects

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Hunger for Change: Student Food Insecurity and Youth Agency in Australia

2023 - 2027
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Food insecurity in Australia, Canada and the UK

2023 - 2023
Active
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Food insecurity among international students within and beyond Victoria, Australia.

2020 - 2021
Completed
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Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods, Dietary Nutrient Profile and Obesity in Seven Countries:

2016 - 2021
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STRENGTHENING THE EVIDENCE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDELINES

Public health guidelines should be based on rigorous evidence. If underlying studies are not sound, guidelines will not be credible or imple..

2018 - 2020
Completed
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Rockefeller Foundation Award

2019 - 2019
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REGULATING FOOD LABELS: THE CASE OF FREE RANGE FOOD PRODUCTS IN AUSTRALIA

The food label has become an important site of contestation and controversy with respect to a range of health, safety, environmental and eth..

2016 - 2019
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REGULATING FOOD LABELS: THE CASE OF FREE RANGE FOOD PRODUCTS IN AUSTRALIA

The food label has become an important site of contestation and controversy with respect to a range of health, safety, environmental and eth..

2016 - 2018
Completed
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Rockeller Foundation Academic Fellowship

2018 - 2018
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Food corporations' strategies for designing and marketing healthier processed foods

2014 - 2014
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

8

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Hunger for change: Student food insecurity in Australia

C Jeffrey, J Dyson, G Scrinis

Journal article  |  2022  |  Geoforum

Student food insecurity has been a major social problem across the world. Building on interview-based research, this paper examine..

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From ultra-processed foods to ultra-processed dietary patterns

Gyorgy Scrinis, Carlos Monteiro

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE FOOD

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Evaluating intake levels of nutrients linked to non-communicable diseases in Australia using the novel combination of food processing and nutrient profiling metrics of the PAHO Nutrient Profile Model

Priscila Machado, Gustavo Cediel, Julie Woods, Phillip Baker, Sarah Dickie, Fabio S Gomes, Gyorgy Scrinis, Mark Lawrence

Journal article  |  2022  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

PURPOSE: To investigate intake levels of nutrients linked to non-communicable diseases in Australia using the novel combination of..

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Les Dérives de la Nutrition (French Edition of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice)

Gyorgy Scrinis

Book  |  2022

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A critique of obesity as a category of malnutrition in all its forms

Gyorgy Scrinis

Book Chapter  |  2021

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical ..

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Maximising the wealth of few at the expense of the health of many: a public health analysis of market power and corporate wealth and income distribution in the global soft drink market

Benjamin Wood, Phil Baker, Gyorgy Scrinis, David McCoy, Owain Williams, Gary Sacks

Journal article  |  2021  |  Globalization and Health

Many of the harms created by the global soft drink industry that directly influence human and planetary health are well documented..

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Nutritional marketing of plant-based meat-analogue products: an exploratory study of front-of-pack and website claims in the USA

Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Libby Hattersley, Gyorgy Scrinis

Journal article  |  2021  |  PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

OBJECTIVE: To explore how some of the largest food companies involved in producing alternative proteins (AP) use health and nutrit..

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Nutricionismo: A Ciência e a Política do Aconselhamento Nutricional (Brazilian/Portuguese Edition of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice)

Gyorgy Scrinis

Book  |  2021

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The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit

Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Mark Lawrence, Christopher Millett, Marion Nestle, Barry M Popkin, Gyorgy Scrinis, Boyd Swinburn

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH

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Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition—an essay by Gyorgy Scrinis

Gyorgy Scrinis

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ

Food corporations have exploited the dominant model in nutrition science to shape the way their ultra-processed products are defen..

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Keyword Analysis

Nutrition and Dietetics
Sociology
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Food Sciences
Policy and Administration
Animal Production
Processed Food Products and Beverages (excl. Dairy Products)
Environmental and Resources Law
Agriculture, Land and Farm Management
Law in Context

News

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Food for thought

Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis, Charlene Edwards, Rafaela Anja, Louisa Ellis, Aasha Sriram, Mia Zentari, Eugenia Zoubtchenko

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the issue of food insecurity among university students to the front pages of many newspapers in Australia and ..

March 15, 2021
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'God, I miss fruit!' 40% of students at Australian universities may be going without food

Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis, Jane Dyson

The COVID-19 pandemic led to food insecurity among students making headlines in Australia and the United States. But even before the pandem..

March 15, 2021
conversation Article
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How to pick an ethically raised ham this Christmas

Rachel Carey, Christine Parker, Gyorgy Scrinis

Increasing interest in animal welfare means that there are a range of options for where your ham comes from this Christmas. What should you..

December 15, 2016
conversation Article
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Free-range egg labelling scrambles the message for consumers

Christine Parker, Gyorgy Scrinis, Rachel Carey

Australian governments have agreed on a new national standard for labelling “free range” eggs, in a bid to clear up years of consumer confu..

March 31, 2016
conversation Article
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What the margarine vs butter argument says about nutrition

Gyorgy Scrinis

Margarine has been the chameleon of manufactured food products, able to transform its nutritional appearance, adapt to changing nutritional..

December 29, 2013
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2016

Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

University of Melbourne

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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor (Food Politics And Policy)

Agriculture and Food

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

Diploma in Education

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Science

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

University of Sao Paulo

Brazil