Newcastle University

Nutrition

In addition to being part of the Institute of Health & Society, Public Health Nutrition Research is also one of the three research themes within the Human Nutrition Research Centre, which is now an established University Research Centre directed by Professor John Mathers.

In Public Health Nutrition research seeks to understand the complex relationships between the food environment, food choice, nutrient intake, physical activity, individual and socio demographic characteristics and health outcomes.  The group’s research spans across the lifecourse from the youngest young to the oldest old but has a particular focus on children, families and young people. Obesity in children and young people is an urgent public health challenge, much of the group’s work aims to elucidate the causal pathways contributing to the obesity epidemic and to develop and test interventions and/or public health policies designed to improve food choice and/or increase physical activity.

This work is underpinned by a strong methodological theme which includes development of tools to measure individual behaviours particularly improving dietary assessment methods for use with children and older people.

Examples of our research include: 

• Gateshead Millennium Study
• SCRAN24 – Secondary school Computerised Recall and Analysis of Nutrition
• The process and impact of change in school food policy on food and nutrient intake both in and outside of school

Staff List

Nutrition

Dr Jean Adams Senior lecturer in Public Health	Email: jean.adams@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8124
Professor Ashley Adamson Prof of Public Health Nutrition	Email: ashley.adamson@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5276
Dr Laura Basterfield Newcastle Biomedicine Faculty Research Fellow	Email: laura.basterfield@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 3828
Sue Bell PA to Professor Ashley Adamson and PH&AHI Administrator	Email: sue.bell@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5276
Jennifer Delve Research Assistant	Email: jennifer.delve@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: 01912223829
Dr Emma Foster Lecturer	Email: emma.foster@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7734
Dr Angela Jones Research Associate	Email: angela.jones@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 3827
Professor Paula Moynihan Prof of Nutrition & Oral Health	Email: paula.moynihan@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8241
Dr Kathryn Parkinson Senior Research Associate	Email: kathryn.parkinson@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7400
Emma Simpson Research Assistant	Email: emma.simpson@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: 0191 2227648
Suzanne Spence Research Assistant	Email: suzanne.spence@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: 0191 2223830