Background

The Food and Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure (FN-NBRI) is the leading national provider of new and continuously updated data, knowledge and tools relating to food composition, intake and food systems for use by different end-users including academia, industry, healthcare, government, consumers.

We compile and publish data on the composition of foods eaten in the UK (McCance and Widdowson’s ‘The Composition of Foods’), which is used to provide the nutritional information for food labelling across the UK and the National Diet and Nutrition Survey for the Department of Health and Social Care. FN-NBRI enables delivery of nutritional policy and high-quality science in support of current and emerging national needs in nutrition (food composition and intake), health (e.g., obesity, healthy ageing) and sustainability (environment, food security). We work closely with QIB and external scientists to support higher-resolution nutrition data, new dietary tools, and integration of food & microbiome data to underpin high-quality research in plant-based diets, personalised nutrition & health, and public health.

The role

The post holder will be responsible for activities including:

• Working with the FN-NBRI team and external stakeholders on new food composition data acquisition and reporting, ensuring the highest quality is maintained,
• Developing data analysis capabilities from dietary assessment tool outputs for the wider research community,
• Leading and supporting on FN-NBRI research grant proposals,
• Coordinating food data standardisation activities, and
• Developing training activities related to FN-NBRI core resources and capabilities.