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Nutrition research
Southampton’s nutrition research focusses on diet and lifestyle throughout the whole life-course – from before birth into older age – to help people make healthier life choices and prevent diseases.
Theme lead: Professor Keith Godfrey
Current BRC-supported Early Career Researchers
Name | Profession | Title of PhD research | PI |
|---|---|---|---|
Faidra Laskou | Med Doctor | Understanding the relationship between muscle and bone in older adults: a possible pathway to improved musculoskeletal health in later life | Prof Elaine Dennison |
Natalie Cox | Med Doctor | Appetite and aging (the microbiome, appetite, nutrition and aging) | Prof Helen Roberts |
Ravita Taheem | Public Health Practitioner | Optimising the Role of Local Government Policy in Tackling Childhood Obesity | Prof Mark Hanson |
Declan McDonnell | Med Doctor | Dietary and nutritional assessment in Pancreatic cancer patients undergoing surgical intervention | Mr Zaed Hamady |
Jean Zhang | Med Doctor | Does a participant-led behaviour change intervention in community-dwelling, older adults lead to changes in lifestyle factors associated with poor musculoskeletal health and improved muscle outcomes? | Prof Elaine Dennison |
Aneurin Young | Med Doctor | Clinical, Nutritional, Genomic and Metabolomic influences on growth and body composition in very preterm infants. | Dr Mark Johnson |
Elizabeth Taylor | Biostatistician | Associations of change in modifiable maternal characteristics between successive live pregnancies with birth outcomes and childhood overweight/obesity in the second sibling | Dr Nisreen Alwan |
Chandni Jacob | Medical Doctor | Life course approach to public policy for prevention of non-communicable diseases | Prof Mark Hanson |
Imogen Stafford | Mathematician | Integration of health informatics 'big data' for clinical translation in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease | Prof Sarah Ennis |
Sarah Shaw | Public Health Nutritionist | The influence of the physical food environment and social networks on adolescents’ food purchasing and dietary quality. | Dr Christina Vogel |
Ruth Durdin | Biosciences | Cardiometabolic phenotyping and bone health in midlife and older age: A comparison across ethnic groups | Dr Kate Ward |
Vicky Cracknell | Biosciences | Placental lipid flux in gestational diabetes and the effects of myoinositol | Prof Rohan Lewis |
Josh Bilson | Nutritionist | Role of adipose tissue function in fatty liver disease | Dr Jazz Sethi |
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