Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research

Why Food is Essential for Children's Health

The Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research focuses on the role of food across all domains of children’s physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing.

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Responsive Feeding in Tough Times (R-FiTT)

This project will collaborate with parents living with disadvantage in order to promote the use of responsive feeding practices by parents experiencing food insecurity.

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Connecting with Cultural Foods

Our vision is for culturally diverse people to have better availability, accessibility and utilisation of their foods to improve their physical, mental and cultural health.

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Feeding Families in Tough Times (FFiTT)

Feeding Families in Tough Times (FFiTT) is a partnership between academics, families with a lived experience of food insecurity, and key actors in food security including providers of emergency food relief, government agencies, health services, not-for-profit organisations and charities.

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The Dads at Mealtime study

Despite growing interest in the developmental benefits of involved fathering, fathers are underrepresented across multiple disciplines of childhood research, including food parenting studies.

Feeding Siblings: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study on Australian Parents and Children Aged 1 to 5 years

To better understand the day-to-day experiences of feeding among families with more than one child to ultimately enhance the practical support that is provided to them by health professionals.

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Kids to the Front: Children’s food practice perspectives for enhanced public health nutrition

This research aims to empower children by providing them a platform to influence decisions aiming to affect their food and nutrition practices and spaces.

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Co-design Toolkit

Enabling children to thrive through better nutrition

The Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research (CCNR) brings together researchers in public health, immunology and gastroenterology to co-create evidence-based research that will enable Queensland children to live healthier lives through better food and nutrition. We are committed to being a leader in child-centred nutrition research and to translate this into tangible efforts that impact the development and wellbeing of children. The CCNR was established in 2018 by founding partners Woolworths and Children’s Hospital Foundation thanks to the generosity of Woolworths customers and team members. This initiative is a joint collaboration between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (QIMRB).

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Our projects are centred around 3 key areas of research; discovery science, clinical health and public health.

Our discovery science and clinical streams are working to understand the impact of diet on the role of bacteria that live in the gut and their impact on brain development, allergies and mental health. Through our public health stream the CCNR are also working with families, communities and schools to improve food literacy and the feeding of children especially for those doing it tough.

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