Future
Leaders

Our students immerse themselves in a dynamic and engaging program that goes beyond traditional learning. This not only offers a scholarship stipend but a gateway to operational funding and exclusive participation in the prestigious Future Leaders Program, a collaboration between Central Queensland University and KPMG. This program is designed to build skills in research translation and research leadership to attract and retain the best students for the long-term benefit of the Australian food industry.

READ ABOUT THE FUTURE LEADERS PROGRAM HERE
Our Students

Alexis

Chung

CURTIN UNIVERSITY
GRADUATED
Evaluation and Optimization of Therapeutic Opportunity of Australian Abalone Viscera hydrolysates (AAVHs) produced via Enzyme Hydrolysis.

Brian Rodrigo

Llagas

RMIT
National Date Labelling and Storage Advice.

Danica

Jobson

CQU
GRADUATED
Behaviour change interventions for sustained reduction in consumer household food waste.

ESTHER

LANDELLS

CQU
Local government's role in helping households reduce food waste.

Hannah

Churton

QUT
Policy, regulation and legislation barriers, opportunities and recommendations to maximise utilisation of food waste and food by-products.

Huize

Ni

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
The impact of foodservice and menu practices on food waste produced in the foodservice sector.

Jack

Hetherington

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
GRADUATED
Understanding and supporting Australian cheese manufacturers to adopt circular business models.

Lucy

Orumwense

CQU
Assessing Factors Influencing Healthy and Fresh Food Preferences and Their Links to Household Food Waste: Using a Discrete Choice Experiment

Hector

vera Wood

UQ
Agronomic assessment of Smart Compost Formulations with legume and grain crops

Khouloud

KAMALMAZ

CQU
GRADUATED
Enhancing Foodbank's Stakeholder Engagement.

LEE

WILLIAMS

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND
GRADUATED
Development of Logistics and Infrastructure of a Regional Organics Waste Transformation Facility.

Lynne

Loo

CURTIN UNIVERSITY
GRADUATED
Supply chain and waste mapping in the Australian Wild harvest Abalone Industry.

Mary

Addae

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Optimising the compost supply chain.

Melinda

Nguyen

University of Adelaide
Development of advanced material for food packaging

Michael

WALSH

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
GRADUATED
Smart compost formulations to benefit crops, soil, and the Circular Economy.

Nisansala

Ranundeniya

RMIT
LCA: supply chain opportunities to reduce food waste.

Regine

Abos

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY
GRADUATED
Exploring the value of designing data-driven behaviour change interventions in reinforcing the consumer’s role in reducing food waste.

Richard

Mensah

QUT
Retention of Nutritional Value and Bioactivity of Products from Agrifood Waste

Roanna

JONES

QUT
GRADUATED
Opportunities for reducing horticultural food wastes using biorefining approaches.

ROLAND

SOMLAI

RMIT
GRADUATED
Integrating decision support tools into organisations for food waste strategies.

RUBY

CHAN

RMIT
GRADUATED
Save Food Packaging Design Criteria and Framework.

Sanjila

Marasinghe

QUT
Recovery of second-generation products from food processing waste

Shanmugam

Alagappan

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
GRADUATED
Optimising and industrialising black soldier fly (BSF) production - redirecting food waste to livestock feed production using insects.

Sijia

Liu

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
Understanding how policy impacts sustainable management of food waste.

Sina

Davoudi

RMIT
Performance monitoring and data sharing to reduce food waste in the cold chain.

Smriti

 Ale

Curtin University
Enzyme-Assisted Valorisation of Oat Hull Waste: Changes in Morphological Structure, Chemical Composition, and Opportunities for Upcycling

Stephanie

Bayancela

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
Transition towards circular economy in Australian agrifood supply chains.

Trang

NGUYEN

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
GRADUATED
Understanding the behavioural and attitudinal determinants of household food waste in Australia.

Xuan

Li

QUT
Unpacking the role of TikTok in food waste communication and reduction: A qualitative study.

Yinling

Gao

QUT
Innovative Biorefineries of Grape Pomace for Valuable Functional Food Ingredients

Abdulla

Al Faruq

RMIT
What green technologies can be used for converting pulse starch (from plant protein production waste) into health promoting food ingredients?

Kar

Wai Lai

University of Queensland
Sustainable Feeds to Optimise Layers’ Productive Life