Students can step-on and step-off their studies with us, so can start the programme, and complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health Nutrition, a Postgraduate Diploma, or the full MSc.
- Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health Nutrition (PG Cert) - Up to 1 year - 30 ECTS or 60 CATS
- Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Nutrition (PG Dip) - Up to 2 years - 60 ECTS or 120 CATS
- Master of Science in Public Health Nutrition (MSc) - Up to 3 years - 90 ECTS or 180 CATS
Our core modules that are compulsory for all exit awards are Assessment of Nutritional Status and Research Skills and Statistics. There are five public health nutrition related modules and one module that provides comprehensive academic training in research skills and statistical analysis. The latter module provides students with extensive expertise needed to produce a first class project for the student’s chosen dissertation. The seventh module is the dissertation itself.
| Module | ECTS |
| Assessment of Nutritional Status develops your understanding, skills and competency in assessing nutritional status, dietary exposure, and energy and nutrient intakes in groups and populations; designing and evaluating surveillance programmes and intervention studies where the nutritional health and wellbeing of groups and populations needs to be assessed; and evaluating and interpreting evidence of nutritional health and wellbeing and how these can be used to develop and implement public health nutrition policies and programmes to control or manage public health nutrition problems. | 10 |
| Food Systems provides you with the knowledge and understanding of the direct and indirect links between agricultural production, food availability and access and public health nutrition as well as how risk assessment is undertaken; the practical constraints to countries being food secure; the need for food standards, laws and regulations to assure good public health nutrition; the role of nutritionally improved and functional foods in public health nutrition; sustainability and the impact of processing, preservation, preparation and cooking and their implications for public health nutrition; and the associations between commercial interests, food ethics (public-private sector partnerships) and public health nutrition. | 10 |
| Nutrition Health Improvement develops your understanding and competency in nutrition health improvement, particularly your knowledge and understanding of the fundamental theories and concepts of public health nutrition and health improvement, including inequalities, as well as how to develop nutrition health improvement materials targeted to achieve behaviour change among individuals, groups and communities. The latter includes qualitative research methods. | 10 |
| Collaborative Working for Nutritional Health develops your competency to practice effectively in the community by providing you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to work with communities to elicit, plan, and deliver public health nutrition solutions to problems in the community. It develops your skills and understanding of the practical constraints and needs for collaborative, interdisciplinary and inter-professional working required to develop and deliver programmes in the community; how to lead and manage teams and individuals, develop capacity and capability, and work in partnership with other practitioners and agencies; how to design and manage projects and programmes to improve nutrition related health; and how to use the media effectively to improve health and well-being. This module includes 40 hours of work experience. | 10 |
| Policy and Programs develops your understanding of the wider social and political context within which the formation of public health nutrition policies and programmes operate. In particular for you to understand how policies to improve or protect health and well-being and strategies to put the policies into effect are developed; develop an integrated understanding of the links between the underlying nutrition principles and practice in public health nutrition using the lifecycle approach; critically evaluate approaches to planning public health nutrition policies and programmes aimed at solving public health nutrition problems; assess the impact of policies and programmes on nutrition related health. | 10 |
| Research Skills and Statistics provides you with the skills to understand how to apply research methods and statistics to evaluate the body of evidence. It also develops the skills you will require to design, undertake, analyse and write up sound quantitative research. | 10 |
| The Dissertation shows how the principles covered in the six taught modules link together to demonstrate a coherent understanding of the requirements for competent practice in public health nutrition. You have the option of doing a traditional dissertation by research or a professional project in which you may do a systematic review or critical appraisal of the research literature relevant to a particular area of practice, audit a programme/service, evaluate a pilot programme/service development, or conduct a programme/service delivery needs assessment. | 30 |