Athena Swan Gold Award

Discipline: Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences

Our research mission is to understand human metabolic demands for nutrients and to optimise their provision as safe and appropriate food.

Head of Discipline

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Professor Susan Lanham-New

Head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences

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1st in the UK

For food science In the Complete University Guide 2026.

Queen's Anniversary Prize winner

Our research has been recognised with a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.

3rd in the UK

In The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025 and the Guardian University Guide 2025.

Recipient of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2017

Food and Nutrition for Health