Teaching and Supervision

Dr Rajshri Roy teaches and supervises students across undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Teaching

Course Director

DIETETIC 708 : Professional Skills 2

This course integrates professional communication, organisation and management skills that will enable students to work effectively as dietitians.

FOODSCI 200 : Food Composition and Nutrition

This course presents the scientific study of food and nutrition.

POPLHLTH 206 : Life Cycle Nutrition

This course provides students with a general background and introduction to the study of public health nutrition including an introduction to the nutrients, major nutritional issues across the lifecycle and the influence of the food environment.

POPLHLTH 306 : Health Promotion 2

This course introduces health promotion from a political and global perspective.

MEDSCI 101G: Environmental Threats to Human Health

This course considers health impacts of climate change, pollution, lifestyle choices, poverty and affluence, workplace hazards, emerging infectious diseases, and dangers affecting cancer risk.

POPLHLTH 765: Nutrition Interventions in Public Health

The purpose of POPLHLTH 765 is to identify issues and inequities in population nutrition, examine broader influences on population diets, and learn how to develop and assess population nutrition interventions which address these aspects.

MEDSCI 709: Nutrition in Health and Disease

This course provides students with the theoretical knowledge and skills to evaluate and disseminate evidence-based

research on the role of nutrition in health and disease, with a focus on health at each stage of life and common non-communicable diseases.

DIETETIC 707: Professional Skills 1

This course develops professional skills including analytical, communication, counselling, food service and leadership skills that will enable students to work effectively as dietitians.

DIETETIC 709A/B : Professional Skills 3

This course advances effective communication skills to optimise nutrition, health, well-being for individuals and communities. Integrates and appraises the dietetic process as it applies to clinical and dietetic practice.

DIETETIC 793A/B: Thesis

Master's of Nutrition and Dietetics Thesis supervision.

Supervision

In progress

Doctoral Students

Jessica Malloy (PhD), Primary Supervisor – "Health Promotion for Young Adults using Youth Codesign of a Social Media Program’’
Xingbo Li (PhD), Primary Supervisor – "How Do They Eat? An Ethnographic Study of Student Eating Behaviour in a Chinese university compared to a New Zealand university.’’
Anna Worthington (PhD) Secondary Supervisor – "Incorporating end-user centric approaches to the design, implementation, and evaluation of nutrition interventions.’’

Masters Students

Dietetic 793 MSC, 2022 - ''Promoting Healthier Food Portions with the Application of Augmented Reality (AR)''
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2022 - ''Mapping the Effects of Social and Economic Factors on Chronic Diseases –A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand and Australia''
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2022 - "How Do They Eat? An Ethnographic Study of Student Eating Behaviour in a New Zealand university''

Completed

Masters Students

Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "Is it possible to enhance the confidence of student dietitians prior to clinical placements? A design-based research."
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 - "Habitual dietary patterns, nutrient intake, and selection of Mediterranean-style food items among New Zealanders (NZ MED)."
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "Content validity, face validity and internal consistency of the Healthy Lunch Scoring Tool"
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "Unhealthy Food at Your Fingertips : A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Takeaway Outlets on Ubereats, New Zealand."
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 - "What Type of Recipes and Videos will Address Barriers, Improve Attitudes, and Motivate Young Adults to Cook with Vegetables? "
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "Prevalence of weight bias amongst New Zealand Registered Dietitians And its effects on dietetic practice - A pilot study"
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "The Intersection of Tech and Nutrition: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Uber Eats"
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2021 – "Efficacy of Student-led dietetic clinics: Evaluation of client satisfaction and nutritional outcomes.’’
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2020 – "Healthy Eating on a Budget? Price incentives within university food outlets and their impact on the purchasing behaviour of young adults"
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2019 – "Allergy Management in a University Foodservice Setting’’
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2019 – “Patient Satisfaction and Outcomes in a Student-Led Dietetic Clinic - A Pilot Study’’
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2019 – “Symbols for Change – Does labelling of healthy foods on menus using symbols promote better choices at the point-of-purchase at university food outlets?”
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2019 – “Grab Goodness vending : a pilot research program to stimulate healthy snacking in tertiary education settings”
Dietetic 793 MSC, 2018 – “Do health policies established by the food industry and associated companies influence their work environment for the benefit of employees?”