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3942
National Ranking
288

Overview

Jane Dixon was affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular contributions in Plant Science, Food Science, Strategy and Management, General Health Professions, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their work included Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, Organic Food and Agriculture, Culinary Culture and Tourism, Global Trade, Sustainability, and Social Impact, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Jane Dixon had several frequent coauthors during their career:

  • Matthew Kelly (3 publications)
  • Cathy Banwell (3 publications)
  • Sam-ang Seubsman (2 publications)
  • Adrian Sleigh (2 publications)
  • Lyndall Strazdins (2 publications)

Their research was published in various academic venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries (2 publications)
  • Nature Food (1 publication)
  • Environmental Research (1 publication)
  • Food Security (1 publication)
  • International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food (1 publication)

Among their recent published papers were:

  • "Authority, Power and Value in Contemporary Industrial Food Systems" (2021, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food)
  • "Combined innovations in public policy, the private sector and culture can drive sustainability transitions in food systems" (2021, Nature Food)
  • "Long-term air pollution exposure and self-reported morbidity: A longitudinal analysis from the Thai cohort study (TCS)" (2020, Environmental Research)
  • "Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand" (2022, Food Security)
  • "Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study" (2020, Work Employment and Society)

Best Publications

  • The health equity dimensions of urban food systems

    Jane Dixon;AM Omwega;Sharon Friel;Catherine M Burns

  • Researching the rural-metropolitan health differential using the 'social determinants of health'.

    Jane Dixon;Nicky Welch

  • Researching the Rural-Metropolitan Health Differential Using the ‘Social Determinants of Health’: RURAL-METROPOLITAN HEALTH DIFFERENTIAL: J. DIXON AND N. WELCH

    Jane Dixon;Nicky Welch

  • Fields on fire: Alternatives to crop residue burning in India

    Priya Shyamsundar;Nathaniel Springer;Heather Tallis;Stephen Polasky

  • Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity

    Tord Kjellstrom;Sharon Friel;Jane Dixon;Carlos Corvalan

  • Urbanization and health in China, thinking at the national, local and individual levels

    Xinhu Li;Jinchao Song;Tao Lin;Jane Dixon

  • Time scarcity: another health inequality?

    Lyndall Strazdins;Amy L Griffin;Dorothy H Broom;Cathy Banwell

  • From the imperial to the empty calorie: how nutrition relations underpin food regime transitions

    Jane Dixon

  • A cultural economy model for studying food systems

    Jane Dixon

  • The changing chicken : chooks, cooks and culinary culture

    Jane Dixon

  • Gun Ownership and the "Southern Subculture of Violence"

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  • The Value of a Food System Approach

    Polly Ericksen;Beth Stewart;Jane Dixon;David Barling

  • Reflections on expert consensus: a case study of the social trends contributing to obesity

    Cathy Banwell;Sarah Hinde;Jane Dixon;Beverly Sibthorpe

  • Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students

    Cathy Banwell;Lynette Lim;Sam-Ang Seubsman;Chris Bain

  • Agriculture and Human Values

    Jane Dixon;Geoffrey Lawrence;David Burch

  • Introduction to symposium on the changing role of supermarkets in global supply chains: from seedling to supermarket: agri-food supply chains in transition

    David Burch;Jane Dixon;Geoffrey Lawrence

  • Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments

    Katrina Proust;Barry Newell;Helen Brown;Anthony G Capon

  • Supermarkets as new food authorities

    Jane Dixon

  • Introduction to the special symposium: reflecting on twenty years of the food regimes approach in agri-food studies

    Hugh Campbell;Jane Dixon

  • Functional foods and urban agriculture: two responses to climate change-related food insecurity.

    Jane M. Dixon;Kelly J. Donati;Lucy L. Pike;Libby Hattersley

  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the Modern World is Making Us Fat

    Jane Dixon

  • ‘Stepping back and moving in’: the role of the state in the contemporary food regime

    Bill Pritchard;Jane Dixon;Elizabeth Hull;Chetan Choithani

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy Broom
Dorothy Broom Australian National University
Adrian Sleigh
Adrian Sleigh Australian National University
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Lyndall Strazdins
Lyndall Strazdins Australian National University
Stewart Lockie
Stewart Lockie James Cook University
Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland
Heather Tallis
Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Jagdish K. Ladha
Jagdish K. Ladha University of California, Davis
Bruno Gérard
Bruno Gérard Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

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