Delighted to share our new paper exploring associations between adherence to the Eatwell Guide and cardiometabolic, cognitive and neuroimaging parameters

Led by Sarah Gregory & funded by NuBrain

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Highly cited work featured below from our rising star Rebecca Townsend (completed during her time as a PhD student Queen's University Belfast 🎓) and close collaborator of the Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre, Claire McEvoy RD ⭐️⬇️

A great day at UMP giving a seminar on ‘ #CoDesign of serious games for #education and social change’with Gary Mitchell Serious Games & Simulations Hazel Haworth plus a #team meeting for #DementiaGame in #Vietnam

A great visit to our partner UMPto #Codesign a #BrainHealth #Game in #Vietnam - loved working with the #interprofessional #students who had such great ideas! Thanks to our #colleagues at UMP for the support!!

#Delighted to join Christine Hazel Haworth to co-design a #SeriousGame 🎮👾📱about #BrainHealth 🧠🏥 in #Vietnam 🇻🇳 Excellent engagement and enthusiasm from our Vietnamese colleagues 😊👏🏻Excited for next steps 👣🤩

We are hosting our final NuBrain Media Research Center meeting in Newcastle next week. The event is open to all and free of charge. Come along if you are interested in #nutrition and #BrainHealth Register here - bit.ly/NuBrainRegister

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We are looking for organisations who employ new graduate dietitians to come along to our first networking event for final year students, who are due to graduate in July 2024.

Find out more 👇🏼

For this months Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre staff feature, we’d like to introduce the brilliant Dr. Dr Andrea Fairley - a Lecturer in Human Nutrition and Dietetics in Newcastle Biomedical, Nutrition & Sport Sci.

So very well deserved!!! So happy for you Dr. Bowman! 👏🏻👩‍🏫⭐️❤️

Congratulations to two of our current stage 3 dietetics students, Yi Jia Sim and Jacob Hamilton, who presented findings from their research scholarships at today’s celebration event 🌟👏🏼 fantastic to see such passionate researchers!

Jacob I Hamilton
Newcastle Biomedical, Nutrition & Sport Sci
Newcastle University

Very proud of our Newcastle University Research Scholarship student, Yi Jia Sim, who presented the findings from her summer project with myself and Rebecca Townsend

Congratulations Sim! 🌟

The most incredible & rewarding day welcoming children to Queen's University Belfast 🎓, who provided us with valuable feedback on our co-designed Children’s Brain Health Game 🤩🧠. Thank you to all the project team involved and to the Research at ARUK Inspire Fund for facilitating this engagement!

What a fun day! We talked brains, health, games, and a whole lot of other things that we didn’t even expect! Fantastic day with a great bunch of people 🥰

What a day! Thank you so much to all the kids, staff and CYP nursing students ❤ for their contribution to the brain health game. Not forgetting the game maker! QUBNursing&Midwifery Rebecca Townsend susie wilkie

Fabulous day at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 working with children from two primary schools on the #BrainHealth #game they codesigned - they took on the challenge and loved finding their #SuperBrain thanks to our team and #CoDesign #team Sonya Clarke susie wilkie Rebecca Townsend

A great day welcoming children to Queen's University Belfast 🎓 from two primary schools giving feedback on the #BrainHealth #game they codesigned - they loved finding their #SuperBrain thanks to our team & Serious Games & Simulations our #CoDesign #team Sonya Clarke susie wilkie led by Rebecca Townsend

Very excited to work on this collaboration with Dr Andrea Fairley Dr Rachel Stocker Sam Orange Curie Kim Emma Stevenson & Paul Court (@TeamHealthworks). Thanks so much to ATTAIN Network for the opportunity! 🤩

For this months Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre staff feature we’d like to introduce Dr. Owen Jeffries

Owen is Lecturer in Health and Exercise Physiology and his research focuses on environmental physiology.

👂Did you hear about DRNI's upcoming webinar series Brain Health & Dementia?

🏃We're kicking off 5 weeks of all things brain health on Nov 15th at 11 am with Sean Kennelly speaking on the concept of brain health in relation to dementia.

➡️Registration: tinyurl.com/msp5zmdu

Session three of the Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre research day involved another series of fascinating presentations:

⭐️ Rebecca McIntyre - diet quality in school children

⭐️ Tom Hill - Vertical Farming

⭐️ Anna Fretwell - Living beyond colorectal cancer

⭐️Rebecca Townsend - Brain health