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MsMelissa Langfield

Graduate Researcher

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

  • Graduate Researcher
    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

I am a PhD Candidate exploring how mothers experience the Maternal Mental Load in the context of family meals. My research involves validating a conceptually distinct articulation of the Maternal Mental Load with which to qualitatively investigate how mothers experience this psychosocial phenonmenon within the food provisioning work of family meals. 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Graduate Researcher
    Deakin University, Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Assistant
    Deakin University, SENS, Burwood, Australia10 Oct 2024 - 24 Oct 2024

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
    Rice University, Houston, United States
  • Master of Public Health
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia7 Mar 2022 - 19 Jun 2024
  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia1 Jul 2025 - present

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences