Research
Nutrition and Dietetics research focuses on understanding and promoting the role and effect of food on human health and disease.
Our areas of speciality include:
- Nutrition screening, nutrition assessment including body composition assessment, nutritional requirements, nutrition diagnosis, international nutrition and dietetics terminology and dietetics outcomes research
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for particular conditions and patient groups e.g. oncology nutrition, renal nutrition and nutrition for older adults, paediatrics, functional nutrition therapy for chronic disease management
- Immunonutrition, bioactive food constituents, functional foods and beverages, including functional nutrition therapies
- Nutritional genomics in healthy ageing
- Dietary factors and the mudaltion of the gut microbiota
- Food and nutrition service policy, evaluation, practice and management
- Dietetics and nutrition education
- Nutrition for sport performance
Nutrition and Dietetics Research Group