Dr Courtney Thompson

Biography

Courtney Thompson completed a Bachelor of Nutrition Science (BNutrSc) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and graduated with First Class Honours from a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) (Nutrition). Courtney’s honours thesis titled ‘Validation of a Revised General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire for Australia’ resulted in the development of the AUS-R NKQ, a nationally valid measure of nutrition knowledge. Courtney completed her PhD at QUT in 2022. Her research, in which she was a recipient of the Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship and King and Amy O’Malley Postgraduate Scholarship for, was in public health and community nutrition and focused on the development, validation and assessment of food literacy.

Courtney is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has tutored and guest lectured across first to third year nutrition science and nutrition and dietetics units at QUT including food citizenship, food and nutrition across the lifecycle, nutritional epidemiology and professional practice in nutrition. She has presented at national and international conferences, authored peer-reviewed journal articles and is currently supervising vacation research, placement and honours students. Courtney is an Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Nutrition Society of Australia and also holds memberships with the Public Health Association of Australia, World Public Health Nutrition Association, The International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Previously, Courtney was the Co-Chair of the Student and Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) committee.

Currently, Courtney holds two additional positions; as a Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Public Health Nutrition and as a Nutrition Scientist at Dairy Australia where she leads research activities and provides input into health and nutrition policy submissions.