Food Science and Nutrition

Entry requirements

For more information, visit our entry requirements webpage.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

We are recognised as world-leaders in food colloids and diet and health. We apply fundamental scientific principles to address issues of food quality, safety and sustainability, diet quality and consumer behaviour, from food production to the consumer’s plate.

Digestion and delivery

Food colloids and soft matter interfaces

Food safety, food security and global health

Functional biopolymers for food and health

Human nutrition and lifestyle interventions

Novel food design and processing

Nutritional epidemiology

Obesity, cancer and metabolic disease

Simulation and theoretical modelling of food systems

Sustainable food systems

Information for international students

If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence that you meet the University's minimum English language requirements.

The University’s Language Centre offers the Academic English for Postgraduate Studies pre-sessional course, which teaches the necessary language and academic study skills required for a research degree programme.

Fees and funding

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