Fellow to focus on food processing
UniSA's
Professor of Marketing Management, David Corkindale, is one of three
academics who will work with CSIRO under the new Flagship Visiting
Fellowships scheme.The fellowships are designed to give academics working in Australian universities the chance to work in the CSIRO with a National Research Flagship.
Prof Corkindale (pictured right) will explore a potential development in a way of understanding and forecasting the likely community, industry and market adoption of innovations and, in particular, non-thermal processing of foods. This technology has potential to extend shelf life and safety of foods, while retaining the qualities of foods.
"I admire our science community and I look forward to doing what I can to help capitalise on their work for the speedier community and industry benefit," Prof Corkindale said.
Joining Corkindale are Flagship Visiting Fellows Professor Deborah Turnbull and Dr Neville Hicks, both from the University of Adelaide. They will work with the Food Futures and Preventative Health National Research Flagships.
"I'm very pleased that all three inaugural Flagship Fellows are social scientists," says Dr Michael Barber, CSIRO's executive director for science planning. "This is evidence that the Flagships are not just about science but are about science making a difference, which means working with other disciplines particularly from the social sciences."