Roberta Asher is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and PhD candidate at The University of Newcastle.

Roberta completed a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2010. In 2019 Ms Asher commenced her PhD at the University of Newcastle researching cooking skill development and nutrition education for people with disability using co-design methods.

Roberta’s research focuses on programs that aim to improve diet quality, health and wellbeing through cooking and food skill development.

Working in multidisciplinary collaborations, she has also developed resources that can be used by other culinary education program developers across a range of settings and target groups to guide program planning, curriculum development and evaluation.