Miranda Mirosa
{{Short description|New Zealand food science professor}}
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Miranda Mirosa is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Otago, specialising in sustainability, food waste and upcycled food products. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology.
Academic career
Mirosa completed a PhD titled Dynamic ideologies: insights from the Slow Food movement at the University of Otago in 2009.{{Cite thesis |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9498 |title=Dynamic ideologies : insights from the Slow Food movement|last=Mirosa|first=Miranda|date=2009|publisher=OUR Research, University of Otago|hdl=10523/9498 |type=PhD thesis}} She then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023.{{Cite web |last=Division of Sciences |date=2018-12-19 |title=Science Division announces academic promotions |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/sciences/news/news/science-division-announces-academic-promotions |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=University of Otago |first=Wellington |date=2022-12-16 |title=Otago announces 39 new professors |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/oms/engage/news/otago-announces-39-new-professors |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}
Mirosa has a background in consumer behaviour and marketing, which she applies in the area of food consumption and sustainability. Mirosa is interested in what people eat and why, how they make decisions about consumption, and how to influence those choices to improve sustainability and health.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Miranda Mirosa |url=https://iaic.iaas.org.sg/keynote-speakers/dr-miranda-mirosa/ |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=International Agriculture Innovation Conference |language=en-US}} Mirosa prepared the Mirosa Report, a briefing to the 2020 Parliamentary Environmental Committee on food waste. One of her key recommendations in the report was that New Zealand stakeholders needed to develop a consensus around how to gather data on food waste, and what actions to take.{{Cite web |last=Otago Magazine |date=2020-11-25 |title=Waste not… |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine/issue51/features/waste-not |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Mirosa Report |url=https://foodwaste-otago.org/resources/the-mirosa-report |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Food Waste Innovation Otago |language=en-US}} Mirosa estimates that around 30% of food globally is wasted.{{Cite web |date=2021-07-19 |title=Feasting on recycled food |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018804549/feasting-on-recycled-food |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She is leading a collaborative project with retirement village providers to cut food waste from the 30 million meals prepared annually in the sector, funded by the Climate Emergency Response Fund, and designed a banquet for 120 people with upcycled food.{{Cite news |last=John |first=Mark |date=2023-07-06 |title=$4.6m awarded to help reduce food waste |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/46m-awarded-help-reduce-food-waste |access-date=2024-01-12 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Mirosa is the Director of the four-year University of Otago Food Waste Innovation Research Theme and as of 2024 is Head of the Department of Food Science.{{Cite web |last=Department of Food Science |date=2023-04-19 |title=Our people in Food Science |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/food-science/our-people-in-food-science |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Our People |url=https://foodwaste-otago.org/our-people |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=Food Waste Innovation Otago |language=en-US}} She was a keynote speaker at the WasteMinz conference in Hamilton.{{Cite web |title=Director Miranda Mirosa in Action |url=https://foodwaste-otago.org/news/miranda-in-action |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=Food Waste Innovation Otago |language=en-US}} Mirosa is part of the national food research centre, the Riddet Institute, and founding Chairperson of the New Zealand Food Waste Champions 12.3 Trust, which aims to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 by halving food waste by 2030.{{Cite web |title=Assoc. Prof. Miranda Mirosa |url=https://riddet.ac.nz/about-us?view=article&id=129&catid=9&tmpl=template |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=riddet.ac.nz}}
Honours and awards
In 2018 Mirosa was awarded Otago's Science Division Community Engagement Award "for her wide proactive engagement with community, organisations and media, both locally and internationally".
Mirosa was appointed as a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology in 2021.{{Cite web |title=NZIFST - List of Fellows |url=https://nzifst.org.nz/page-18126 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=nzifst.org.nz}}
Selected works
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References
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External links
- [https://vimeo.com/651845084 Upcycling food webinar] by Mirosa, 2021
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruzOhN5JVI Consumer Insights into the 'Alternative' Protein Revolution], seminar for the International Association for Agricultural Sustainability, September 2021
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:New Zealand food scientists