Graduate Stories – Enzo Di Battista
June 10, 2014
Enzo Di Battista Master of Nutrition Graduate 2008 Joint Clinical Lead Dietitian in Adult Weight Management & CVD, Hywel Dda Health Board PhD Student, Lifestyle Interventions for Cardiovascular Risk, Swansea University My career route since graduation I began my career as a dietitian working within the NHS in the acute setting. After a year and …
Graduate Profile – David Johns
David Johns Master of Nutrition Graduate 2008 Current Role: Investigator scientist, MRC Human Nutrition Research Cambridge, UK I currently work as an Investigator scientist at Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research. This is essentially a post-doc/early career scientist role. I work in epidemiology and on diet and obesity related research. This predominantly involves finding the …
Graduate Profile – Camilla Peterson
Camilla Peterson BSc Nutrition Graduate 2009 Project Coordinator – Nutrition Action Healthletter Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington DC, USA I’ve always known I wanted to work in nutrition and getting my BSc from the University of Nottingham (UoN) was the first step in making this goal happen. Four years after graduation, I …
Graduate Profile – Katie Bird
June 9, 2014
Katie Bird Community Dietitian Leicestershire My current role I am currently working in Leicestershire as a community dietitian. This is a varied post which is split between Mental Health and Primary Care and includes providing a dietetic service to mental health inpatient units, undertaking home visits and seeing patients in outpatient clinics. Patients are referred …
Next week is Dietitian’s Week – Congratulations to Dr Fiona McCullough
June 6, 2014
Next week 9-13th June 2014 marks the World’s first Dietitian’s Week [http://www.trustadietitian.co.uk/dietitians-week/]. This has been organised by the British Dietetic Association [https://www.bda.uk.com/], the organisation who represent UK dietitians. Dietetics is a part of what we do in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Nottingham, being the only university in the UK to offer an integrated undergraduate …
What is a dietitian?
March 14, 2014
Part of what we deliver in the Division of Nutritional Sciences is the Master of Nutrition, an undergraduate masters programme which trains students to be eligible to register with the Health and Care Professions Council as Dietitians. The title dietitian (along with dietician) is a legally protected title in the UK. Here at Nottingham we …
Grant award for communication skills training package
February 7, 2014
Congratulations to Kirsten Whitehead, who has received a grant from the British Dietetic Association (BDA) General Education Trust for £8875 This will allow Kirsten to develop and evaluate an open access training package to support students and qualified dietitians who want to develop their communication skills with patients. The training package will be based on the …
Good News from the Division
We are into the new semester and we have some fantastic news to share from the Division of Nutritional Sciences: Dr Simon Welham and Professor Andy Salter together with Dr Ian Hardy (Division of Animal Sciences) have successfully secured funding from Eminate Ltd (http://www.eminate.co.uk/ ) and the School of Biosciences to fund a PhD Studentship investigating ‘Insects …
Nutrition in the News – Sugar, Obesity and Diabetes
There has been a lot of attention this year regarding dietary intakes of sugar and risk of diabetes. This was typified by the Action on Sugar press release (http://www.actiononsalt.org.uk/actiononsugar/Press%20Release%20/120017.html ) which linked epidemiological projections on obesity and diabetes to suggest by 2050 the cost to the NHS of obesity to be £50 billion. This was a …
