Rate My Professor Sheila Skeaff

Skeaff has a long-standing career at the University of Otago, where she has supervised over 50 postgraduate students since 2004. She served as President of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand for six years, Vice-chair of the trans-Tasman Expert Working Group reviewing Australian/New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values for Iodine, member of a World Health Organization external expert group revising iodine indicators, and Chair of the Oceania Nutrition Leadership Platform. She coordinates and teaches the course HUNT 141: Understanding Human Nutrition. Her teaching excellence earned the Ako Aoteara Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2018 and the Otago University Students' Association Supervisor of the Year Award in 2022, both overall and for the Division of Sciences. Skeaff serves on the editorial boards of Maternal and Child Nutrition and Frontiers in Nutrition. Key publications include 'Food loss and waste in New Zealand: A baseline estimate' (2025), 'Sodium, potassium and iodine excretion and blood pressure of New Zealand school children: A cross-sectional study and comparison with recommended guidelines' (2025), and 'Aotearoa New Zealand Baseline Food Loss and Waste Project: Final Report' (2025). She presented her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on balancing food, fact, and fiction.