36 monthsProgramme duration
31,900 GBPTuition Fee/year
Jan, Apr, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Health/Healthcare
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Our Nutrition, Food and Human Health PhD and MPhil programmes ground students in the methods and research approaches to understand how nutrition and food affect human health and wellbeing.
Within your research, you'll get the opportunity to work in our exciting multi-disciplinary teams. Our work explores how nutrition affects:
- human biology and physiology - including human athletic performance and the microbiome
- health and ageing
- disease process - including cancer, cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes and NAFLD
- how food security affects biology and wellbeing
- nutrition and health challenges in global sustainability
- the outcome and management of disease (dietetics)
Our research is multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary. We centre core nutrition research in The Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre (HNERC). Our researchers collaborate with food scientists and food systems experts from across Newcastle. They have access to two University farms. This allows us to tailor multidisciplinary research programmes across pure and social sciences. This means the HNERC can apply science projects from “farm to fork”.
For self-funded students, please read our list of available projects and supervisory teams on the HNERC homepage. You'll find these under self-funded PhD and MPhil projects.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Health/Healthcare
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Our Nutrition, Food and Human Health PhD and MPhil programmes ground students in the methods and research approaches to understand how nutrition and food affect human health and wellbeing.
Within your research, you'll get the opportunity to work in our exciting multi-disciplinary teams. Our work explores how nutrition affects:
- human biology and physiology - including human athletic performance and the microbiome
- health and ageing
- disease process - including cancer, cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes and NAFLD
- how food security affects biology and wellbeing
- nutrition and health challenges in global sustainability
- the outcome and management of disease (dietetics)
Our research is multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary. We centre core nutrition research in The Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre (HNERC). Our researchers collaborate with food scientists and food systems experts from across Newcastle. They have access to two University farms. This allows us to tailor multidisciplinary research programmes across pure and social sciences. This means the HNERC can apply science projects from “farm to fork”.
For self-funded students, please read our list of available projects and supervisory teams on the HNERC homepage. You'll find these under self-funded PhD and MPhil projects.
Admission Requirements
A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a science or medicine related subject.
PhD
A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent. Further research experience or a master’s degree would be advantageous.
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