Tanita Northcott is an Affiliate at the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).

She is a PhD Candidate at Deakin University. Her PhD focuses on understanding how law and regulation can be conceptualised and used to respond to the rise and harms of ultra-processed foods in the context of complex food systems and socio-ecological challenges. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach and combines public health nutrition scholarship, regulatory theory and systems sciences analytical frameworks, using qualitative research methodologies.