This module aims to introduce students to the necessity of becoming research-orientated and to think critically about nutritional science in preparation for a range of future careers. Nutrition is a far- reaching and complex field of science with a range of external influences impacting on the integrity and consistency of information available not only to scientists and researchers but to the general public.
This module aims to introduce students to the necessity of becoming research-orientated and to think critically about nutritional science in preparation for a range of future careers. Nutrition is a far- reaching and complex field of science with a range of external influences impacting on the integrity and consistency of information available not only to scientists and researchers but to the general public.
The Research Tutorials provide key background information on the Mechanism Review process for those students on the L7 Research Dissertation module and L6 Research Project module.Journal Club is open access to all students on the MSc/PGDip in Personalised Nutrition and to all Levels on the BSc Nutritional Science as part of the resources offered within Professional Enhancement. We will normally run two time-slots for each Journal Club. Allow 1 hr 30 mins for each journal club session.The benefit and usefulness of the Journal Clubs for everyone depends on each student making the effort to prepare for the session and contributing to the discussion.The purpose of these sessions is to give you the opportunity to practice critical analysis of papers, familiarising yourselves with completing checklists and sharing ideas/conclusions with your peer group
The MSc dissertation project allows the student to undertake a piece of research designed to contribute to the evidence base for personalised nutrition. This can either be a piece of primary or secondary research: the former focusing on sociological quantitative and qualitative methods; the latter focusing on reviewing the scientific literature using methodologies appropriate to personalised nutrition.
Personalised Sports Nutrition not only relates to the 'elite' athlete but extends to the increasing number of individuals engaging in competitive sporting activities. A significant number of sporting individuals sustain injuries, train alongside other health problems and train in a way that puts their health under strain. The major aim of this module is for students to critically review the evidence base for tailored personalised functional nutrition interventions for the healthy 'competitive' athlete and the sporting individuals who are training alongside other health problems. This module is not aimed towards nutrition and exercise for rehabilitation following chronic illness.
This module aims to enable students to justify and rationalise a person centred nutrition approach to promote healthy aging and longevity taking account of the health of the conceptus, pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and all stages of adulthood. The module takes a central focus on the potential impact of multiple gene effects and how diet, environment and lifestyle might impact on gene expression. An ability to deeply reflect on the efficacy of a person centred approach to promote healthy aging and to maximise lifespan is integral to the module aims.
Inflammation is central to most chronic illnesses. The aim of this module is for students to justify and evaluate personalised nutrition interventions including laboratory assessments for individuals with a range of chronic illness/es and co-morbidities, especially where inflammation is central to the process. Pivotal to this module are principles of psycho-neuro-immunology. This module enables students to produce and critique a Timeline for gathering and recording historic and current health history information and for establishing future goals for such individuals, for the purpose of intervening nutritionally. Deep reflection on a personalised nutrition approach to the management of chronic illness is integral to the module.
Induction for students new to the undergraduate programmes:1) BSc (Hons) Nutritional Science 2) Nutrition Coach Diploma (NCD)3) Dietary Educator Certificate (DEC)
Induction for students new to the undergraduate programmes:1) BSc (Hons) Nutritional Science 2) Nutrition Coach Diploma (NCD)3) Dietary Educator Certificate (DEC)
Induction for students new to the postgraduate programmes:1) MSc in Personalised Nutrition 2) Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) in Personalised Nutrition 3) Nutrition Coach Diploma (NCD)4) Dietary Educator Certificate (DEC)
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.
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.
