Our work is shaped through shared inquiry and sustained through collaboration.
This page brings together those who contribute to food safety culture research through questioning, learning, and collaborative practice across different stages of academic and professional development
Those Who Carry the Questions
Our students are active contributors to Food Safety Culture research, working across empirical studies, methodological development, and practice-led inquiry. This work is carried forward by those who engage deeply with questions developing ideas, testing assumptions, and contributing to the collective learning of the Food Safety Culture Lab.
As postgraduate and early-career researchers, we support food safety culture inquiry through rigorous analysis, methodological care, and reflective practice. Our work contributes to the generation of evidence, the exploration of emerging perspectives, and the thoughtful translation of research into wider academic and applied contexts.
Doctoral Researchers
Ke Wang
PhD, started 2024
A doctoral researcher develops next-generation measurement tools using AI and computer vision. Current work focuses on objective, behaviour-based indicators that move beyond self-reported surveys, enabling closer observation of everyday food safety practices within production environments.
Swathi Sadanandan
PhD CandidateA doctoral researcher investigating how targeted interventions influence food safety culture maturity across multi-site production environments. The research focuses on behavioural change mechanisms within industry contexts and identifies scalable strategies that support sustained cultural improvement.
Elena Piere
PhD Candidate, Food Science
A doctoral researcher investigating organisational culture and behavioural drivers shaping food practices in aged residential care. Her work develops and evaluates co-designed interventions that reduce food waste and strengthen sustainable, safe, and people-centred food systems.
Master’s Researchers
Xiaochen Liu
Master of Applied Science (Food and Agriculture)A postgraduate researcher examining how food safety champions are enabled through behavioural, social, and organisational mechanisms, with current work synthesising global evidence to inform the development of a national support network.
Quynh Vu
Master of Science, Food Manufacturing & Organisational PracticeA food science researcher working at the intersection of food safety culture, organisational behaviour, and cross-cultural practice. Research examines how food safety is interpreted, communicated, and enacted within food manufacturing organisations, with particular attention to cross-cultural differences in values, hierarchy, and everyday practice.
Chathumadhuri Thennakoon
Master of Science (Food Safety Culture)A postgraduate researcher exploring how complacency emerges and is sustained within food safety culture. The thesis analyses behavioural, organisational, and leadership mechanisms that influence risk perception and safety decision-making, combining expert consensus methods and industry-wide surveys to generate evidence-informed strategies for cultural improvement.
Nicholas Tweedale
Honours Student (Food Safety Culture)A postgraduate researcher examining how food safety leadership is defined within workplace settings. Current research uses content analysis of job advertisements for food safety leadership roles to explore whether organisations prioritise both technical expertise and the social and organisational capabilities needed to support effective food safety culture in practice.