Staff Profiles

Professor David R Fraser

Professor in Animal Science

Qualifications
BVSc, PhD (Camb).

Research
Rickets in Mongolia
Rickets in Bangladesh
Evolutionary Biology
Intestional Absorption
Leadership in Veterinary Science

Honorary Associate Professor Heather Greenfield

Honorary Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor, UNSW
Honorary Professor of Nutrition, U.Canberra

Qualifications
1960 BSc (Hons) Lond
1970 PhD Lond
2000 Grad Dipl Publ Health UNSW

Career History
45 years of teaching, researching and consulting in all aspects of human nutrition in UK, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, France, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos and elsewhere.

Research Interests
Food composition, particularly of animal products; bone health; public health nutrition particularly of developing countries; food and nutrition policy, with particular reference to dairy products.

Dr Michelle Hyde

Senior Lecturer, Animal Sciences

Qualifications
1988 BScAgr (Hons)
1995 PhD
2001 Grad.Cert. Higher Ed.

Career History
1989 – 1991 Research Assistant, Department of Animal Science
1992 – 1995 PhD, The University of Sydney
1996 – present The University of Sydney

Professional Distinctions
Member of Australian College of Educators

Research Interests
Michelle completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, specialising in Animal Science, in 1988. She next worked for two years as a research assistant in the then Department of Animal Science, studying vitamin D metabolism in rainbow trout and dairy cattle. This work led to her PhD studies on the influence of vitamin D metabolites upon hypocalcaemia in the dairy cow.

Upon completion of her degree Michelle began a position as Lecturer in Animal Sciences and now teaches Animal Industries and Animal Nutrition to undergraduate students in the BVSc and An.Vet. Bio. degree programs. Michelle also supervises Honours and Postgraduate students undertaking nutrition related projects.

Her research interests are varied and include vitamin D metabolism in production animals as well as aspects of wildlife and captive animal nutrition.

Michelle has long had an interest in improving student learning outcomes and the student experience and she also has research interests in this area. She has been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award, The Australian College of Educators Accomplished Teachers Award and been a finalist for The Australian Universities Teaching Committee Excellence in Teaching Award.