News & Events
Winner of the AIFST Sensory Solutions Tony Williams Sensory Award 2022…
Congratulations to Uniquely Australian Foods PhD student Sera Jacob who recently travelled to the annual AIFST Convention in Melbourne where she was awarded the AIFST Sensory Solutions Tony Williams Sensory Award for her research on Aroma..
Uniquely Australian Foods supports Hermitage Research Facility’s 25th Annual Schools Plant Science Competition
It was a glorious winter’s day in the countryside of Warwick, as hundreds of bright young minds from 8 schools and additional families of winning students gathered at the Hermitage Research Facility. This day marked..
The next big thing in bush food business!
Great to see this recent ABC article featuring the Bunya Nut and highlighting their traditional context and the great research that is currently happening in this space. Check out the full article here!
The UAF team present at Mon Repos Turtle Centre for Inaugural First Nations Native Botanical and Ecotourism Industry Workshop
A team of staff and students from the Industrial Transformational Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods (UAF) travelled to the Mon Repos Turtle Centre near Bundaberg to contribute to the inaugural First Nations Native Botanical..
Native bunya nuts close to home for Brazilian researcher
A native Australian nut has the potential to be part of the burgeoning Indigenous bushfood industry, according to research led by The University of Queensland. PhD candidate Jaqueline Moura Nadolny has studied the bunya nut (Araucaria bidwillii), a..
Coming together in support of the Australian Wattle seed
On 26th of July, delegates from DAF and UQ, along with members from the Wattle seed Australia Consortium Team, convened at the Elkhorn building at UQ Long Pocket campus, for a day of knowledge sharing,..
Training Centre and Partners Featured on SBS for NAIDOC Week
We were excited to get some publicity on SBS when we were featured in an article celebrating NAIDOC week. In the article, Assoc. Professor Heather Smyth discusses the aims of the training centre and its..
Bunya nuts featured on front cover of the Journal of Food Science!
We’re excited to see the work of Uniquely Australian Foods’ PhD candidate Jaqueline Moura Nadolny featured this month on the cover of the Journal of Food Science. Jackie’s paper offers a summary of some of..
The very young learn about friendships and nutrition of Australian native plants
To help celebrate Reconciliation Week, Uniquely Australian Foods Centre staff member Sophie Ader spoke with the young, and young at heart, at ‘My School Mount Cotton’ childcare centre. In her interactive and tasty talk, she..
Student success in the 2022 QAAFI 3MT competition!
On Monday 6th June 2022, QAAFI held their annual Institute level 3MT* competition – live and in-person for the first time since 2019. It was a fierce and impressive showcase of some of the wonderful..