Nutrition and Health at University of Roehampton

You will explore how good nutrition enhances wellbeing, and can help manage or prevent disease, and look at the latest science to analyse the link between food and health, and how that can be applied to individuals, the public and groups such as athletes and older adults. 

The degree is accredited by the Association for Nutrition, so when you graduate you can become a Registered Associate Nutritionist and help others lead healthy lives. 

You will gain the skills to tackle topical issues and understand the effects of food and nutrition on health – an area of increasing public and clinical interest. 

Throughout your time with us, you will be supported in a welcoming and diverse community of staff and students, on a beautiful parkland campus. You will have access to our state-of-the art facilities and excellent laboratories, including our food lab, with sensory analysis tasting booths, and specialist laboratories for physiology, microbiology and computing. 

We offer innovative modules such as Advances in Nutrition, where you’ll explore recent developments and innovations in the field of nutrition, including the role of ‘omics’ technology, interactions between diet, genes and disease, and the role of various nutrients. Other interesting modules include Nutrition of Population Groups, which explores how different stages of life can determine nutritional status and requirements, and Food Science, where you’ll gain insight into the science behind food production, quality and safety. 

• Provides a firm foundation in biochemistry, physiology and psychology that you will  need to work as a nutrition professional.
• Accredited by the Association for Nutrition, so once you graduate you can become a Registered Associate Nutritionist.
• Taught by leading experts in their field, in excellent facilities, including a food lab with sensory analysis tasting booths and biomedical and microbiology labs.
• Learn in excellent laboratory facilities including a food lab with sensory analysis tasting booths and biomedical and microbiology labs.
• 94% of Roehampton Nutrition and Health graduates in work or further study within six months of graduation (DLHE, 2018 results).
• We are ranked the 5th university in London for Nutrition and Health (Complete University Guide 2020).
• 92% student satisfaction on this course (NSS 2019).