Course summary

Why this course?

• Give your career a head-start through the option of a one-year work placement, after year two.

• Silver in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students.

• Study in our excellent facilities, which include a food lab with sensory analysis tasting booths and biomedical and microbiology labs.

• Accredited by the Association for Nutrition, so once you graduate, you can become a Registered Associate Nutritionist.

• Advances in Nutrition and Health - Delve into recent breakthroughs in nutrition, including the impact of ‘omics’ technology, gene-diet interactions, and the significance of diverse nutrients.

• Nutrition of Population Groups - Investigate how various life stages influence nutritional needs.

• Food Science - Gain insight into the science behind food production, quality and safety.

• You will learn about how good nutrition enhances wellbeing and can help manage or prevent disease.

• You will research the latest science and analyse the link between food and health, and how that can be applied to individuals, the public, and groups such as athletes and older adults.

• You will gain the skills to tackle topical issues and understand the effects of food and nutrition on health – an area of increasing public and clinical interest.

• Your skills will be developed in our state-of-the art facilities and excellent laboratories, including our food lab, with sensory analysis tasting booths, and specialist laboratories for physiology, microbiology, and computing.