Your phone has changed the way you eat

Young people's food environments no longer live in supermarkets and school canteens. They live in pockets: shaped by delivery apps, social media, and algorithms designed to sell, not to nourish. This is the part of the food system most of us can't see.

Stephanie Partridge has spent her career studying how digital and physical environments shape what adolescents eat and how healthy they grow up to be. Her research does something unusual: it invites young people to help redesign the system. Because healthier futures don't get built without the people who have to live in them.

Bio

Associate Professor Stephanie Partridge is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney, where she leads the Youth Well Lab. Her research focuses on how digital and physical environments shape what adolescents eat and how healthy they become, and she works with young people as co-researchers to help redesign those systems from the inside out. She was awarded the 2023 Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science and the Young Tall Poppy Science Award.

Event

Thursday 7 May, 6:30 – 7:15 PM @The Toxteth, 345 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037

The other talk at this location is Why emotions at work are everyone’s business at 8:00 – 8:45 PM