Nutrition & Health BSc (Hons)

With obesity and malnutrition rising, the role of nutrition in ensuring we maintain a well-balanced diet and good exercise to keep healthy has never been more critical. Food sustainability is rapidly becoming a pressing issue too. Our nutrition and health degree covers these challenges and so much more.

Our course provides skills to help you succeed in the field of nutritional science. Tailor your studies with optional modules such as Exercise, Diet and Health Promotion, Psychological Approaches to Health and Social Wellbeing, and Therapeutic Approaches to Nutrition.

You’ll get practical, hands-on experience in our excellent Biosciences laboratories and dedicated food skills area. Test how certain foods are made, investigate their physical properties and use microbiology to assess the antimicrobial properties of food. You’ll also get the chance to wear bariatric and geriatric suits to experience mobility restrictions as well as the opportunity to use different types of equipment to measure anything from energy expenditure and heart rate to exercise duration and sleep quality.

Apply everything you’ve learnt with a work placement, and participate in live research projects and a range of professional development activities to stand out to employers.

An accredited degree

Accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN) (subject to reapproval), successful completion of this degree will enable you to apply for direct entry as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr). Registration of the AfN demonstrates that you have received a sound underpinning of scientific knowledge in evidence-based nutrition. It also enables you to join the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists, the only register of qualified nutritionists recognised by Public Health England, NHS Choices and NHS Careers.

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Your future career

After completing this course there are a wide range of career pathways open to you. Previous students have set out as freelancers or found themselves in a broad variety of organisations both in the public and private sectors, such as:

• clinical nutrition companies
• local authorities
• charitable organisations
• the NHS
• parenting organisations
• health promotion
• schools
• food industry, e.g. new product development, quality assurance.
• sports nutrition, e.g. elite sports, supplement companies

Our nutrition and health course is also a great foundation for postgraduate study in compelling areas such as public health nutrition, teaching and psychology.

Successful completion of this degree will enable you to apply for direct entry as a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Association of Nutrition (AfN).

Registration of the AfN demonstrates that you have received a sound underpinning of scientific knowledge in evidence-based nutrition. It also enables you to join the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists, the only register of qualified nutritionists recognised by Public Health England, NHS Choices and NHS Careers.