Experience

Human Nutrition Research Centre

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Currently working as a research assistant gaining experience in quantitative and qualitative research. My Research projects include:The Gateshead Millennium Study which is a long-term research project looking at child health in north-east England where I am responsible for:- Running the social media accounts and making sure the participant contact details are up to date.- Attending focus groups with the participants to ask them how they feel about the study and to provide information on the study moving forward.- Design questionnaires regarding health, drug and alcohol use and general wellbeing which may assist in further research.- Liaise with the research team on the feasibility the research.DiRECT (DIabetes REmission Clinical Trial) Study which investigates whether offering an intensive programme for weight loss and weight loss maintenance would be advantageous for people with Type 2 diabetes. I was responsible for:- Collecting various meal replacement products from supermarkets and pharmacies to compare them nutritionally to the one already used in the study to find a more balanced product for the study.- Updating the recipes on the website.- Using the McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods integrated dataset as a comparison tool.



SK Foods

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• New Product Development Technologist

  • Aug 2016 - Sep 2016

  I worked as a new product development technologist and also gained experience as part of the technical department during a 6 week placement. My responsibilities included:- Attending product trails to test how products would be made and contributing to ideas on improvement.- Attending feasibility meetings.- Working on manufacturing specifications to set levels of acceptability and unacceptability to ensure a high quality standard was adhered to.- Inputting recipes using NutriCalc to ensure the customers’ demands regarding nutrition were met.- Working with the technical team creating allergen advice and ingredients declarations as well as the traffic light system was correct all packaged products.