Ms Roberta Asher

Ms Roberta Asher

Research student

Career Summary

Biography

Roberta Asher is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and PhD candidate at The University of Newcastle.

Ms Asher completed a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2010 after a 10-year career as a trade qualified chef working in restaurant and international hotel kitchens in Australia and overseas. She has worked as a clinical dietitian, a community culinary nutrition educator and research assistant. In 2019 Ms Asher commenced her PhD at the University of Newcastle researching cooking skill development and nutrition education for people with disability using co-design methods.

Ms Asher’s research work focusses on programs that aim to improve diet quality, health and wellbeing through cooking and food skill development. Working in a multidisciplinary collaboration, she has also developed resources that can be used by other culinary education program developers, across a range of settings and target groups, to guide program planning, curriculum development and evaluation.

Keywords

  • Cooking skills
  • Culinary nutrition
  • Diet
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Nutrition education

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
321099 Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified 100
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Journal article (8 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Asher RC, Bucher T, Shrewsbury VA, Clarke ED, Herbert J, Roberts S, et al., 'Facilitators and barriers to providing culinary nutrition, culinary medicine and behaviour change support: An online cross-sectional survey of Australian health and education professionals', JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS, 36 252-265 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/jhn.13044
Citations Scopus - 4
Co-authors Vanessa Shrewsbury, Tamara Bucher, Roberta Asher, Erin Clarke, Clare Collins
2023 Asher RCC, Clarke EDD, Bucher T, Shrewsbury VAA, Roberts S, Collins CEE, 'Impact and evaluation of an online culinary nutrition course for health, education and industry professionals to promote vegetable knowledge and consumption', JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS, 36 967-980 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/jhn.13109
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Roberta Asher, Vanessa Shrewsbury, Tamara Bucher, Clare Collins, Erin Clarke
2022 Asher RC, Jakstas T, Lavelle F, Wolfson JA, Rose A, Bucher T, et al., 'Development of the Cook-Ed (TM) Matrix to Guide Food and Cooking Skill Selection in Culinary Education Programs That Target Diet Quality and Health', NUTRIENTS, 14 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/nu14091778
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Vanessa Shrewsbury, Tamara Bucher, Anna Rose, Kerith Duncanson, Clare Collins, Roberta Asher
2022 Asher RC, Shrewsbury VA, Bucher T, Collins CE, 'Culinary medicine and culinary nutrition education for individuals with the capacity to influence health related behaviour change: A scoping review', JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS, 35 388-395 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/jhn.12944
Citations Scopus - 23Web of Science - 12
Co-authors Roberta Asher, Tamara Bucher, Clare Collins, Vanessa Shrewsbury
2020 Schönberg S, Asher R, Stewart S, Fenwick MJ, Ashton L, Bucher T, et al., 'Development of the Home Cooking EnviRonment and Equipment Inventory Observation form (Home-CookERITM): An Assessment of Content Validity, Face Validity, and Inter-Rater Agreement.', Nutrients, 12 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/nu12061853
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2
Co-authors Vanessa Shrewsbury, Roberta Asher, Lee Ashton, Tamara Bucher, Christopher Oldmeadow, Clare Collins
2020 Asher RC, Jakstas T, Wolfson JA, Rose AJ, Bucher T, Lavelle F, et al., 'Cook-EdTM: A Model for Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Cooking Programs to Improve Diet and Health.', Nutrients, 12 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/nu12072011
Citations Scopus - 19Web of Science - 14
Co-authors Roberta Asher, Vanessa Shrewsbury, Clare Collins, Tracy Burrows, Tamara Bucher, Anna Rose, Kerith Duncanson
2013 Collins CE, Burrows TL, Bray J, Asher R, Young MD, Morgan PJ, 'Effectiveness of parent-centred interventions for the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight and obesity in community settings: a systematic review', The JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 11 180-257 (2013) [C1]
Citations Scopus - 2
Co-authors Roberta Asher, Myles Young, Tracy Burrows, Philip Morgan, Clare Collins
2013 Asher RCZ, Burrows TL, Collins CE, 'Very low-energy diets for weight loss in adults: A review', NUTRITION & DIETETICS, 70 101-112 (2013) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2012.01628.x
Citations Scopus - 12Web of Science - 12
Co-authors Tracy Burrows, Roberta Asher, Clare Collins
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Ms Roberta Asher

Contact Details

Email roberta.asher@uon.edu.au
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