Natalie Jovanovski

Dr Natalie Jovanovski is a sociologist and research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. Dr Jovanovski’s research focusses specifically on women’s relationships with food and eating. In 2014, Dr Jovanovski completed her PhD, which examined body-policing attitudes in popular discourses on food and eating. Dr Jovanovski translated the findings from this research for a wider audience in her publication, “Digesting Femininities”. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr Jovanovski has conducted research with low-income single mothers in receipt of welfare benefits and investigated how socio-economic status affects women’s relationships with food, eating and mental and physical health.