Food and Human Nutrition PhD

Newcastle University

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 multi-disciplinary teams. Our work explores how nutrition affects:human biology and physiology - including human athletic performance and the microbiomehealth and ageingdisease process - including cancer, cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes and NAFLDhow food security affects biology and wellbeingnutrition and health challenges in global sustainabilitythe 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.