Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders (MRes)

Improving human health has never been a bigger global challenge. Get the specialist, practical skills you need to tackle modern metabolic diseases through good nutrition.

Skills

Make a difference to human lives with a postgraduate degree in Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders.

The Roehampton Master’s in Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders (MRes) will help you develop your interest in nutrition by gaining the specialist skills needed to be a leader in your field.

By focusing on important insights into contemporary developments in clinical nutrition, you’ll become a confident, agile, independent thinker, with the ability to adapt rapidly to change.

You’ll graduate with the knowledge and skills to:

• Undertake modern nutrition research with a project which will give you experience of specialist research techniques
• Carry out research design and data handling and analysis with the use of statistics.

With an increasing need for research experts in nutrition, collaborate with internationally renowned experts in the field to tackle modern metabolic diseases and the impact on human health.

Learning

Learn in a stimulating environment. 

Created in collaboration with industry-leading professionals, the Roehampton Nutrition and Metabolic Disease includes important insights into contemporary developments, for a wide range of healthcare professionals.

Working in high-spec facilities, like our state-of-the-art facilities and excellent laboratories including a food lab with sensory analysis tasting booths and specialist laboratories for physiology, microbiology, and computing.

You’ll shape your studies around your own interests and aspirations, with optional modules including:

• Health research methods
• Principles of Nutrition
• Obesity and Metabolism

Subject-specific lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical work will both introduce and prepare you for recent advances in the field, both theoretical and technological and their applications in Nutrition.

Assessment

Push yourself further with real-world assignments.

Throughout the course, you’ll experience a wide range of assessments that enhance your understanding and practical skills, while giving you a taste of industry practices.

You’ll leave Roehampton with an in-depth understanding of both the theory and the hands-on applications of clinical nutrition, ready to take the next step.

Shape the future of public health

With a Roehampton Nutrition and Metablic Disorders masters, you can go onto a wide range of careers, including:

• Academia research/teaching
• Food or pharmaceutical industry
• Commercial research
• NHS (various roles)
• Local and central government (roles in policy and health promotion).

In addition, many students are already health professionals and study the course as part of their career development and specialisation.