ProfessorMark Lawrence

Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Professor Lawrence teaches postgraduate students enrolled in food and nutrition science as well as dietetic courses in the public health nutrition topics of healthy and sustainable food systems and food policy and regulation. For more than 15 years he has consistently received student ratings >90% for the quality of his teaching.  

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Unit Chair HSN706 Food Policy and Public Health
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Currently supervises 1 Honours, 1 Masters and 5 PhD students
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Role of Competing Worldviews and Interests of Policy Actors in Shaping Food and Nutrition Policymaking
    Patricia Ribeiro de Melo - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Understanding and Disrupting the Ultra-Processed Food Industrys Power in Global Food Governance
    Scott Slater - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Progressing System-Wide Sustainable Development Goals implementation in Hospital Food Services
    Sharon Hui Yi Ong - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The political economy of healthy and sustainable food systems
    Ana Renker-Darby - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ultra-processed food: cross-purposes of food regulation
    Leonie Elizabeth - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Nutrient Profiling Interventions Targeting Obsesity Prevention: Role and Potential Impact
    Gary Sacks - School of Health and Social Development - 2011
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Guiding Policy Change to Reduce Diet-related Disease in the Pacific
    Wendy Snowdon - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Unhealthy food promotion to under 18s: deeper insights, new interpretations.
    Michaela Jackson - Marketing Discipline Group - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Accountability for Healthy Food and Eating Environments
    Vivica Ingrid Kraak - School of Health and Social Development - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Food Rescue: Investigating Directions for the Future.
    Rebecca Lindberg - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analysis of Policy Implementation for Healthier Food Environments in Thailand
    Sirinya Phulkerd - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Towards a Vietnamese University Public Health Nutrition Framework: Needs Assessment
    Thi Hai Quynh Pham - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Using dietary patterns evidence in dietary guideline development
    Kate Wingrove - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analysis of Nutrition Classification Schemes for Informing Nutrition Policy Actions
    Sarah Dickie - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The political economy of meat reduction for healthy and sustainable food systems.
    Katherine Sievert - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Unintended consequences of policies to reduce added sugar in food
    Cherie Ann Russell - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Environmental Impacts of Ultra-processed Foods and Food System Implications
    Kimberley Anastasiou - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Ecological Framework for Regulating Ultra-Processed Food Systems
    Tanita Rose Northcott - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2026