Food and nutrition
The Food and Nutrition research group brings together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and PhD students who are all conducting research around food and nutrition at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield.
About our research
Our members come from a range of fields, including engineering, chemistry, medicine, biology, plant sciences, social sciences, public health and geography. The group consists of nutritionists, dieticians, clinicians, sociologists, statisticians, public health specialists, information and evidence synthesis specialists, health policy experts, geographers , allied health professionals and biologists. The research of our group members includes both UK and global work ranging from clinical and lab-based research to social and public health research.
The group’s primary purpose is to form a common food and nutrition forum in the university that can create awareness, foster opportunities for research collaborations and networking, and further food and nutrition research at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield. Through guest and staff talks and research seminars, we also promote knowledge communication and keep members updated on advances in the field.
The group collaborates with other groups in the university that work on food and nutrition, such as the Institute of Sustainable Food and the Healthy Lifespan Institute.
The group also has links with wider stakeholders in Sheffield, including local councils, Sheffield Hallam СŷÊÓƵ and the NHS. A vision of ours is to foster the development of a Sheffield food and nutrition group with the aim of bringing together stakeholders across the city for stimulating networking and collaboration.
People
Theme Lead
Staff
PhD students
- Amnah Almaki
- Kristin Bash
- Brenda Mogeni
- Dennis Onosolesena Idiakheua
- Maria Porter-Abdilla
Projects
- Drivers of Food Choice Competitive Grants Program: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food environments that drive consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor foods and beverages, to identify interventions targeting women and adolescent girls throughout the reproductive life course; 2017-2019.
- Transitions in African Cities Leveraging Evidence for Diet-related non communicable diseases This is a MRC-led Foundation Award to study dietary transitions in African cities in Ghana and Kenya. This interdisciplinary partnership of ten co-applicants from five academic institutions across Ghana, Kenya and the UK. 2017-2019.
- MRC Research Grant. The FRESH Street Project: Developing an area (street) based cash transfer scheme to promote healthy eating communities in areas of high deprivation in the UK, 2017-19.
- MRC NINO LIP: UK-Africa network to improve the nutrition of infants and young children living in poverty (NINO LIP) in urbanising sub-Saharan African countries. 2018-19.
- HighCALS: [MH1] A programme to develop and evaluate a complex intervention to achieve a high-calorie diet for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Funded by a NIHR programme grant.
- The largest cohort health study in Yorkshire. Since 2010, over 30,000 people have participated
- Breast milk research and policy