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Staff Profile

Dr Jennifer Bradley

Research Associate

  • Telephone: 01912087648
  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    M1.151 William Leech Building
    NE2 4HH
Background

I am a member of the Population Health Sciences Institute and work in the Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre. I am part of the Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism research theme and also the Public Health and Health Inequalities theme.

Research

Research interests

My research interests are focused around dietary assessment methods and how we can obtain accurate self-reported dietary data, particularly from children and adolescents.


Current work

I currently work as a research associate at the Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre. My work explores dietary assessment methodology in children and adolescents; how we can use novel methods to improve both the accuracy of self-reported intakes and the process of obtaining these data.


Previous work

I led a pilot study for the Diet and Nutrition Survey of Infants and Young Children (DNSIYC) to test the feasibility of a food diary method to assess intakes in 4-18 month infants. I was involved in the development of Intake24, an online 24 hour dietary recall tool, which is being used in the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) and the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) and has been adapted for use in other countries. I have worked on various aspects of the Northumberland Middle Schools Food study; a cross-sectional survey of food intakes in 11-12 year olds living in Ashington and Morpeth. I also worked on an evaluation of the Change4Life Sugar Smart campaign. My PhD was completed by publication, and was entitled 'The development and application of approaches to measuring diet across childhood and adolescence'. 

Publications