Margaret Murray, PhD

Dr Margaret Murray is a Dietitian and Senior Lecturer.  Margaret has a passion for experiential and engaging education.  She created two units in the multi-disciplinary Master of Food Science and Agribusiness, delivering the food, nutrition and human health content. These units consider the challenges facing our food system of delivering a healthy and sustainable diet for all.  This includes a collaboration with the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative and use of their DELTA Model as a teaching tool.  

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Margaret specialises in coordinating nutrition-focused human clinical trials, with experience in quantitative and qualitative methods.  Her research focuses on investigating the health impacts of bioactive compounds in food.  Margaret is also interested in research for improving education, as well as and food systems and planetary health as they relates to human nutrition.  Margaret thoroughly enjoys supervising PhD, honours and undergraduate research students and passing on her expertise to the next generation.

Margaret has collaborated with the Sustainable Nutrition initiative team at the Riddet Institute in New Zealand, the Fraunhofer Research Institute in Germany, and worked with industry partners Marinova Pty Ltd and Jenny Craig.  She welcomes interest for collaboration in relation to both research and teaching.

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Margaret holds a Certificate IV in Leadership and Management and has demonstrated her leadership as the Faculty of Science early career researcher (ECR) representative and committee Chair (2020-21) and Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences ECR Symposium committee Chair (2022-23).