Miss Courtney Thompson

Biography

Courtney Thompson completed a Bachelor of Nutrition Science (BNutrSc) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and graduated with First Class Honours from a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) (Nutrition). Courtney’s honours thesis titled ‘Validation of a Revised General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire for Australia’ resulted in the development of the AUS-R NKQ, a nationally valid measure of nutrition knowledge.

Currently, she is a PhD Candidate and Sessional Academic in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at QUT. Her research, in which she was a recipient of the Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship and King and Amy O’Malley Postgraduate Scholarship for, is in public health and community nutrition and focuses on the development, validation and assessment of food literacy. Courtney is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has tutored and guest lectured across first to third year nutrition science and nutrition and dietetics units at QUT including food citizenship, food and nutrition across the lifecycle, nutritional epidemiology and professional practice in nutrition.

Courtney has presented at national and international conferences, authored peer-reviewed journal articles and is currently supervising Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) and nutrition and dietetics honours students. Courtney is also on the Student and Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) committee, an Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Nutrition Society of Australia and currently holds memberships with the Public Health Association of Australia, World Public Health Nutrition Association and The International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.