Program Overview

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Clinical and research-led curriculum

We have a clinical and research-led focus to our teaching, ensuring everything you learn is up-to-date and relevant to the NHS. We were awarded the

Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2017 for Further and Higher Education

, in recognition of our research excellence in the field of food and nutrition.

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Final-year project

In your final year, you’ll complete a research project. This can be an existing project that one of our researchers are working on or something entirely new, that you want to investigate further.

Previous students have completed their projects in acute hospital settings or in public health. Some have also helped NHS dietitians to carry out a service evaluation.

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Facilities

You’ll benefit from hands-on learning in our £12.5 million

Innovation for Health Learning Laboratory

, where TV screens are used to show you how to conduct experiments and follow scientific protocols.

The Laboratory is fitted with the latest industry equipment, that you’ll use to conduct a full range of experiments with. You’ll complete your first practical within your first two weeks.

The time you spend in our facilities will give you the opportunity to familiarise yourself with nutrition and dietetics methodology and develop the practical laboratory experience that’s essential in a research career and valued by a wide range of employers.

In your final year, depending on your research project, you may also get to use our dissertation laboratory.

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Teaching staff

You’ll be taught by

lecturers

who are active researchers or clinicians within their respective fields. These may include:

Dr Jonathan Brown

, an expert on polyphenols in health and disease

Dr Adam Collins

, a nutritionist with over 20 years’ experience and expertise in obesity, weight loss, body composition and sports nutrition

Dr Barbara Engel

, a dietitian with over 20 years’ experience and expertise in renal disease.

Throughout your placements, you'll have an educational supervisor, who’ll be a senior clinician. They'll guide you through your experience and help you to complete your evidence portfolio.

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Professional recognition

BSc (Hons) - Health and Care Professions Council, the (HCPC)

Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for the purpose of providing eligibility to apply for registration with the HCPC as a dietitian.

BSc (Hons) - British Dietetic Association (BDA)

Accredited by the British Dietetic Association (BDA) as delivering the approved pre-registration curriculum framework. Provides eligibility to apply for HCPC registration as a dietitian.

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Careers and graduate prospects

We offer

careers information, advice and guidance

to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

This course is accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), which means that on successful completion of your studies, you’ll have the academic requirements needed to register to work as a dietitian.

97% of our biosciences and medicine graduates go on to employment or further study.* Most of our alumni go on to work in clinical dietetics or health promotion, for an NHS trust across the UK.

The NHS is the largest healthcare employer in Europe and is home to a diverse range of specialist roles in hospitals, practice surgeries, people’s homes and the wider community. Visit the

NHS careers website

for further information.

Some of our graduates go on to work in the food industry, for major food and supermarket companies like Fresenius (based in Germany), or Wiltshire Farm Foods, while others take on roles in education and media. Many students also use this course to apply for further study, including postgraduate research.

*Graduate Outcomes survey 2022, HESA

Graduate

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Lauren Turner

Nutrition and Dietetics BSc (Hons)

I'm currently a registered Dietitian at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and I'm working as a Research Assistant within the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Surrey.

Graduate

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Professor Julie Lovegrove

Human Nutrition and Dietetics BSc (Hons)

I'm Head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading and I sit on a number of government advisory committees, including the Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition (SACN).