Sandra Murray

Ms. Sandra Murray

University of Tasmania
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Biography

Sandra has over 30 years' experience as an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and is currently a Uni of Tasmania (UTAS) academic in the School of Health Science, teaching public health nutrition and championing many sustainability issues. Her educational background includes a Bach. of Science from Griffith University (Uni) in 1983, Grad. Dip. in Nutrition and Dietetics from the Queensland Uni of Technology in 1987, Master of Public Health from Uni of Queensland in 2007, and a Grad. Cert. in Uni Learning and Teaching from UTAS in 2012, and she is presently enrolled in a Ph.D. with UTAS, exploring food justice in Tasmania as a lever for change. Sandra has extensive experience working in a range of settings, including food industry, private practice, and public health nutrition. At UTAS, she facilitates the UTAS Sustainability Committee’s Sustainable Food Systems Working Group, advocating and developing a solution-based Healthy, Sustainable and Equitable Food Strategic plan* to address campus food insecurity among UTAS students. For her efforts, she won the 2020 Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability Green Gowns Award of Excellence for her commitment to food system transformation. Back in the classroom, Sandra is engaging her students in advocacy to address food insecurity issues on campus and in the community and the need for more healthy, sustainable, and socially just food systems. * https://www.utas.edu.au/about/sustainability/facilities-and-operations/food-and-gardens

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