Generating Excellent Nutrition In UK Schools
Awarded £254k for 2.5 years
Opportunities for intervention and innovation in the UK School Food System.
Jayne Woodside
Professor of Human Nutrition
Jayne Woodside is Professor of Human Nutrition within the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast. She also leads the Food, Nutrition and Health theme and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Food Security. Her research is focused on how diet and lifestyle affect chronic disease risk. She specialises in the use of biomarkers to assess dietary intake, conducting controlled dietary interventions and interventions to promote long-term dietary change. Jayne has published widely in the nutrition field, with >180 original publications and has current funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research and the Wellcome Trust. Jayne is a Trustee of the Nutrition Society, and is Honorary Publication Officer with responsibility for the Society’s five journals including the British Journal of Nutrition and Public Health Nutrition.
Network
The aim is to build a network that considers the food system across the preschool, primary and secondary school settings in the UK, and school food provision in order to influence the quality of children’s diets and reduce inequalities in dietary intake. The network will use a range of methods such as systems mapping and network analysis to improve understanding of the current UK school food landscape, differences and best practice across the four UK nations and explore opportunities for population- and system-level interventions that could improve diet quality and inequalities. Activities will facilitate interactions between academics, policy makers and practitioners to generate fresh insights on this important challenge.
On 25 September 2019 the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) held a kick off meeting with the award holders from the first funding round. Download the slides presented by GENIUS (PPT, 8MB).
Network membership
Initial network membership includes co-investigators from universities across the four UK nations, government agencies, local councils, parliamentary groups, charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
For further details see the GENIUS website.
Ashley Adamson
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute of Health & Society and Human Nutrition Research Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Annie S Anderson
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Ninewells Medical School
Laura Dunne
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, Education and Social Work
Charlotte Evans
Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition and Nutritional Epidemiology
Ruth Hunter
Reader in Public Health, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science
Julie Lovegrove
Hugh Sinclair Professor of Human Nutrition, Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition and Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR)
Michelle McKinley
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute for Global Food Security (Centre for Public Health), School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science
Ciaran O’Neill
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science
Suzanne Spence
Fuse-Newcastle University Research Fellow, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Health & Society
