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Dr. Natalie Jovanovski is a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University’s School of Health and Biomedical Sciences and the Social Equity Research Centre (SERC). As a health sociologist, her research examines sociocultural factors shaping relationships with food and bodies, particularly among women. She holds a prestigious ARC DECRA (2020) and has authored influential monographs such as Digesting Femininities (2018) and Diet Culture and Counterculture (2024), the latter winning the TASA Raewyn Connell Prize.
Her work critiques diet culture and explores resistance strategies through Bourdieu’s practice theory and Ulrich Beck’s risk society framework. Current projects include a $5M Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) initiative addressing Long-COVID, led by Prof. Catherine Itsiopoulos. She co-leads RMIT’s Food Cultures and Practices Enabling Impact Network and chairs the 'Consumption, Bodies and Social Practices' theme in the SPSC network.
Recent research focuses on healthy eating guidelines through stakeholder engagement, and she is co-editing Social Justice in Public Health (Routledge, forthcoming). Her interdisciplinary collaborations span public health, sociology, and policy, with a focus on marginalized groups and feminist methodologies.
