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Staff Profile

Dr Jennifer Bradley

Research Associate

  • Email: jen.bradley@ncl.ac.uk
  • 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.


I work part time Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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 am currently working as a research assistant at the Human Nutrition Research Centre. My current work explores school food architecture and interventions to improve food and drink choices made by secondary school pupils. I am also completing my PhD by publication, which is entitled 'The development and application of approaches to measuring diet across childhood and adolescence'. 


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 as a research assistant on an evaluation of the Change4Life Sugar Smart campaign.

Publications