at St. John's College (Santa Fe), studying the Great Books curriculum, Ankeny held an independent Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to explore families' understandings of and responses to Huntington disease risk in England, Scotland, Wales, and Denmark.
degree in Gastronomy from the University of Adelaide, where she wrote a thesis on celebratory food habits among immigrants of Italo-Australian and Italian-American origin.
The research group seeks to understand the decision-making processes behind everyday food choices and how they are shaped by social, cultural and historical influences.
[18] She has been invited as a guest on multiple programs at ABC Radio National, including Robyn Williams's Ockham's Razor,[19] Jonathan Green's Blueprint,[20] the Health Report,[11] Linda Mottram's PM,[21] and the Catalyst.
[25] On the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been interviewed by news networks to comment on ethical concerns related to coronavirus "certificates" [26] and the impacts of lockdown rules for the food sector.