DrSanna Barrand

Dr Sanna Barrand is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University. She has a PhD in Epigenetics from University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD aimed to define the epigenetic landscape of pluripotency genes in cells with varying differentiation capacity to increase our understanding of cell plasticity. Sanna has worked in various research projects nationally and internationally. Her previous post-doctoral study at Deakin University focused on understanding the impact of maternal suboptimal diet on the health of the next generation.

Recently she worked as a Lived Experience Research Officer at HARMON-E clinical trial at Food and Mood Centre, Deakin University. During this role Sanna developed a passion for co-design and co-production practises in research. She believes that involving people with living and  lived experience in research  will increase  research relevance, quality, and outcomes.

Dr Barrand works with Prof Genevieve Pepin and Shannon Calvert in the Lived Experience and Co-Production stream of the Australian Eating Disorder Research and Translation Centre, where she has co-produced guidelines and resources to support co-production in Eating Disorder Research. Her current research aims to understand how we can better involve people with carer and personal living and lived experience in eating disorder research.