Miss Charo Hodgkins

Biography

Charo Hodgkins joined the Food Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre in Nov 2002 after a short career break to raise a family. She is a science graduate with extensive experience of managing technical projects within blue chip companies such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Kingfisher PLC. Within these roles she gained comprehensive experience of research and development, manufacturing, and quality/supply chain management for a wide range of products including, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, foods, toiletries and non-foods. Her responsibilities also involved extensive auditing of production facilities across Europe and the development and delivery of training packages in Continuous Improvement, HACCP, Crisis Management and Problem Solving techniques.

During her time at the University she has worked on two FSA funded research projects, one on food safety training and another on front-of-pack nutrition labelling; four pan-european EU funded projects; Food in Later Life 'SENIORFOODQOL', Consumer Decision making on Organic Products 'CONDOR', European Food Information Resource Network 'EUROFIR'  and  Food labelling to Advance Better Education for Life 'FLABEL'. She is currently working on a further two EU projects; Plant food supplements: levels of intake, benefit and risk assessment 'PLANTLIBRA', and Food Risk Communication - Perceptions and communication of food risks/benefits across Europe 'FOODRISC'. 

Funding for further research into front-of-pack nutrition labelling in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Oxford University has also recently been secured from the NIHR.