Producing scientific clinical evidence in personalised nutrition requires: a deep and systematic understanding of the power and limitations of current experimental designs; and an understanding of the role of cutting edge statistical techniques and their application to the falsification of complex clinical hypothesis.
This module introduces the functional model and aims to develop your ability to relate abstract and subtle issues in the philosophy of science to concrete paradigms and protocols in evidence based medicine and personalised functional nutrition. This also should facilitate the your ability to demonstrate critical analysis of existing research paradigms and to explore the potentials and difficulties presented by new research paradigms and how they relate to healthcare and personalised nutrition.
This module provides: the foundations for your ability to analyse complex, incomplete or contradictory evidence from a personalised functional perspective throughout subsequent modules; a basis for your participation in the development of functional clinical evidence through their research dissertation.
- Module Leader: James Neil
- Module Leader: Indrani Saha
- Module Leader: Karin Seidler
Making personalised nutrition recommendations requires: critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of existing data underpinning current government guidelines for nutrient intakes for the population. The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to analyse and interpret complex nutritional, biochemical; pathological and scientific data and to offer resolution when the data is contradictory and/or incomplete in the design of personalised nutritional plans. The module aims to provide a framework for the design of personalised nutritional plans enabling the student to justify an approach in the context of the wider nutrition industry and EU legislation; and honouring social, cultural, ethical and economical realities. The module should enable students to demonstrate a deep appreciation of the complexity underpinning the rationales for a personalised nutritional approach.
- Module Leader: Michelle Barrow
- Module Leader: Esther Donoff
- Module Leader: Chen Saat
- Module Leader: Indrani Saha
- Module Leader: Elizabeth Scott-Moncrieff