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Christine Driessen

@christinedove.bsky.social

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Researcher + Registered Nutritionist (RPHNutr.) MPH, BAppSc, PhD Candidate Food behaviours + Food environments + all things health and nutrition // research explores children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing in digital and retail food environments

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Christine Driessen @christinedove.bsky.social · Apr 11

childsds, according to ChatGPT 😊

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Lauren Ball @proflaurenball.bsky.social · Mar 12

UN bodies call for legal measures to restrict children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing, yet few governments have taken action. This study of Chile, Canada, & the UK reveals how political economy influences, shape the policy process ->

A political economy analysis of the legislative response to unhealthy food and beverage marketing in Chile, Canada and the UK - Globalization and Health

United Nations bodies call for legal responses to restrict children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing; however, few governments have introduced legislative controls. This research studies the…

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Public Health Association of Australia @publichealthaus.bsky.social · Mar 12

We welcome today's strong action by @markbutlermp.bsky.social and other ministers to tackle illicit #Tobacco and continue AUS' vaping reforms.

Commonwealth funding includes more $ to extend the National Tobacco and E-cigarette #PublicHealth campaign.
www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

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Brook Gideon @brookgideon.bsky.social · Mar 7

Today we stand up for science, but please also stand up and shout for all the women in science. Men in science need to do better. This is not a one off occurrence. #womeninstem #standupforscience

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · Feb 11

#GenAI is now integrated into a vast array of tools and platforms. The increasing impact of AI on children and young people demands urgent attention from researchers

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@tamaleaver.bsky.social @curtinmedia.bsky.social #saferinternetday

Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges

Published in Journal of Children and Media (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Christine Driessen @christinedove.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you! @publichealthaus.bsky.social

Christine Driessen @christinedove.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our #research exploring QLD Government policy to restrict unhealthy food and alcohol advertising

“the food, alcohol and advertising industries engage in multiple forms of corporate political activity to oppose regulations”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#publichealth #foodmarketing

The rise and fall of the Queensland Government policy to restrict unhealthy food and alcohol advertising on publicly owned assets

To examine the strategies employed by opponents of the Queensland Government’s policy to restrict unhealthy food and alcohol advertising on publicly o…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Christine Driessen @christinedove.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m excited to share our new study, published in Appetite journal! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jMDSiVKTl...

We spoke with parents about how they view their children's exposure to #unhealthyfoodmarketing across two key online and offline settings - supermarkets and digital devices

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