Alexandra Manson

Alexandra Manson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and dietitian in the Caring Futures Institute. Alexandra's research has a focus on improving children and families health behaviours, specifically looking at food consumed and provided within school.

Alexandra is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with experience in public health nutrition. Her PhD research explored perceptions of the current school food system and the features that influence parental acceptability of a potential school-provided meal system in Australia. Ongoing work strives to support community-led approaches to school food and explore potential systems approaches to achieve health equity.

She is supported by a South Australian Heart Foundation Kickstarter Research Fellowship. Her fellowship strives to co-design an evidence-informed support toolkit for interested schools to feasibly implement a school-provided meal model, aiming to increase equity, health, education, and improve lifelong food behaviours.

Research interests include supporting children and families, and school food.