Massive congratulations to our very own Prof
@amgallagher_UU
who has been appointed as the New Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. Well done of this fantastic achievement! 😌🥳
#proudofUU
We are so unbelievably proud of Dr
@AoifeCaffrey_
who was just crowned the
@DSM
Bright Science Award Winner for 2019
Aoife presented her PhD work on maternal nutrition and offspring health against stiff competition from European candidates.
A fantastic achievement
#ProudOfYou
Delighted to share the news that our very own Professor
@amgallagher_UU
has recently been elected to the University’s Council
@UlsterUni
#ProudofUU
Check out Alison's profile:
🥳🎉We are celebrating '30 Years of Nutrition @ Ulster' with a special social media calendar of activities across our key areas! We would also love to hear from
#UlsterFND
food, nutrition & dietetics alumni... send us your old pics, memories or stories using
#NutritionAtUlster30
To mark the end of
#NSWinter20
, we are delighted to announce that our very own Professor Barbara Livingstone has been awarded an Honorary Fellow of the
@NutritionSoc
& we are immensely proud.... celebrating one of Barbara's many awards below (📸pre-social distancing)
#ProudofUU
Massive congratulations to Dr Katie Moore, our latest
#PhD
researcher to pass her PhD viva on
#B
-vitamins and the Ageing Brain. Special thanks to external examiner Dr Tom Hill from Newcastle University, internal examiner Prof Chris Mitchell and Chair Prof Alison Gallagher.
How about this for a nice Christmas present 🎁 Massive congratulations to
@HollyRNeill
on a SUPER defense of her
#PhD
today at viva! Such an honour to have Prof Sue Lanham-New as external,
@ruthkprice
(internal) &
@PamelaMagee13
(chair), big thanks to all for their time
#NICHEphd
Congratulations to our final year
#NICHEphd
researcher
@HollyRNeill
for being a recipient of the Yakult Travel Grant. This will enable Holly to present her vitamin D research at an international conference next year. Many thanks to Yakult UK Ltd for providing this funding. 🎉👩🏼🔬✈️
Last day in NICHE for our wonderful postdoc
@HollyRNeill
who is taking up a new role with Yakult UK Science Team👏🏻 a MASSIVE thank you Holly for all you have contributed to NICHE over the last 10 years from
#BSc
to
#PhD
to Research Associate!! Best wishes in your new post ⭐️
Delighted that our BSc Dietetics programme is 1 of only 6 courses across
@UlsterUni
to be recognised as academically excellent!! 👏
This is a testament to the combined efforts of student and staff and of course our external contributors working in unison 🏆
#ProudofUU
#UlsterFND
Massive congratulations to Dr Michelle Clements who successfully defended her PhD thesis on
#bvits
&
#bone
in older adults📕🎓🥳. Special thanks to examiners: Prof Regan Bailey - Texas A&M, USA & Dr Pamela Magee. Chair: Prof Adrian Moore. We are so proud of U 🌟
NICHE would like to wish Dr Katie Moore all the best on her new adventures. It has been a pleasure to watch her grow from
#UlsterFND
student to world class researcher on the
#TUDA
study. It has been a pleasure to work with Katie and she is an inspiration to us all.
#NICHEbvits
Prof Helene McNulty on
#FolicAcid
: "Inaction for over 25 years has had adverse impacts; lets act!" 🤰💊🥦 a passionate call to action from our
#NICHEdirector
at
#NSIrish22
Thilled to announce our new Visiting Professor 🎓, Dr David Armstrong
@osteoporosisNI
! A trusted & valued collaborator, member of our Advisory Board & friend of NICHE, David is also one of our
#NHSheroes
with a passion for
#bonehealth
🦴 & now formally part of the
#UlsterFND
team!
📰Exciting new paper📰
Fantastic 🆕
#NICHE
research demonstrating the influence of
#maternal
obesity and
#vitaminD
insufficiency in response to vitamin supplementation. Well done to all involved!
#NICHEobesity
#NICHEvitD
Check it out 👇👇👇
Super proud to have so many of our brilliant team here in Belgrade for
#FENS2023
! Join us Fri 17 Nov (symposium 7 room 14) to learn about our
#nutrition
#research
across the lifecycle
🧒 Food intake patterns in children
🐟 Sustainable bioactive protein
🧠 Mental health in ageing
📣2nd
#NICHE_PhD
success of the day🥳Congrats to Dr Bethany Duffy who successfully completed her
#PhD
viva on
#Riboflavin
&
#B
-vits in pregnancy:
#BP
#anaemia
&
#offspring
health 📕Thanks to PhD supervisors + panel Prof Mairead Kiely, Dr Leane Hoey & Prof Alison Gallagher 👏👏👏
Congratulations to our Lecturer in Nutrition,
@DrMaryMcCann
for taking up her new role as Faculty Partnership Manager covering the Schools of Biomedical Sciences, Geography & Environmental Sciences, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine.
#ProudofUU
Thanks again to everyone (organisers, helpers, supporters, speakers, delegates), & of course
@NutritionSoc
for making last week's Irish Section Conference such a success!
#nsirish18
#NewHeader
Check out our Facebook album with all the pics 👉
Hot off the press! Our new paper shows that continued
#folicacid
supplementation at a dose of 400 microgram daily, beyond the early period of pregnancy recommended for NTD prevention, may be beneficial for cognitive function and IQ of the child
#NICHEbvits
Big shout out 🗣️to Dr Alyson Hill who won Educator of the Year for Faculty of Life and Health Sciences @
#LTA24
🏆This is truly well deserved - Alyson received 12 nominations from her MSc Dietetics and Human Nutrition students. Great to see all her hard work being recognised 🥳
Delighted to officially celebrate 🎉
#NutritionAtUlster30
during the Nutrition Society Irish Section Postgraduate Meeting with a speech from one of the founders of
#nutrition
@UlsterUni
and on the island of Ireland, Prof Sean Strain! Here’s to the next 30 years!
Congratulations to the TUDA_OptiAge team on sampling the final participant on a 2yr
#B
-vit and
#bone
#RCT
during a global pandemic 💊💉. Looking forward to the results of the study 🎉🙌
Great few days shooting the course videos for
#food
#nutrition
&
#dietetics
💡🎥🎬 Here are a few behind the scenes shots. Watch this space for the final product. Check out our courses
Congratulations to
#NICHEgrad
MSc Dietetics Saoirse Knox awarded the prizes for best MSc Dietetics Student & best MSc Nutrition Research Presenter, kindly sponsored by DSM Nutritional Products 👩🎓👏👏👏
#ProudofUU
#UUClassof2020
Congratulations to PhD researcher
@AnnaMonaghan12
who has been appointed secretary of the NI IFST Branch Committee for the 3rd consecutive year and to our very own
@DrMariaMulhern
who is a long standing member and has now been appointed chair of the committee.
#proudofUU
The
#NICHEenergy
team are delighted to share this invitation for the Inaugural Professorial Lecture by
@amgallagher_UU
, to all our friends & followers: "Eat more, move more, live longer - could it really be that simple?"
1st Nov, 1830. Link to register:
Congratulations to
@michelle_clem_
who has been shortlisted to appear in Parliament to present her biosciences research to a range of politicians & a panel of expert judges, as part of STEM for BRITAIN ⭐️
#ProudofUU
Find out more ➡️
Earlier this week our very own Professor Sean Strain, past
#NICHEDirector
, was awarded Honorary Fellowship of
@NutritionSoc
... we are all very grateful to be able to learn from one the best
#ProudofU
Delighted to see that the UK government has confirmed that it will introduce mandatory fortification on non-wholemeal flours with folic acid in order to reduce spinal conditions in babies
#NTD
#healthypregnancy
Congratulations to Prof Emeir McSorley for winning the Excellence in PhD Research Supervision Faculty Award. Delighted to see all Emeir’s hard work and support for her PhD researchers being recognised in this way 🥳🏆📕👩🎓
Congratulations to NICHE Director Professor Helene McNulty
@NICHE_ULSTER
as bing recognised as an World Expert in Vitamin B deficiency
@Daily_Experts
. To learn more about Prof McNulty and her research click on the link
As part of Spotlight on Malnutrition Month (September 2020), we congratulate Dr. Helene McNulty
@ulster
.ac.uk/niche of the University of Ulster -- Recognized as an Expertscape World Expert in Vitamin B Deficiency.
Congratulations to Dr Cealan Henry on his PhD viva success, his research focused on Fish, gut microbiota & immunity. Thanks to the external examiner Prof Yvonne Nolan(
@yvonnemnolan
, internal examiner Prof James Dooley and Chair Dr Pamela Magee. 🐠📕🥳
Prof Helene McNulty,
@ruthkprice
&
@gairesantosh
from NICHE
@UlsterUni
leading the work package in
@GCRF_Safewater
on Human Health and Nutrition in rural Mexico 🇲🇽
Exciting to be part of shaping design interventions which monitor child growth using the brand new
@WHO
criteria👏🌊
Today we celebrate International Woman & Girl’s in Science. To mark the occasion, we would like to show our appreciation to all of our fantastic female researchers here at NICHE.
Keep an eye out today for some exciting glimpses into some of their research!
#IDWGS2021
#IAdmire
Today we welcomed our new
#NICHEphd
Researchers during the annual PhD inductions. We hope you all are excited to start a new venture and your upcoming research! Keep an eye out over the next couple of days to find out more about each student.
#ReadyForUU
#WeareUU
@UlsterUniPhD
SO proud of emeritus Profs
#SeanStrain
&
#BarbaraLivingstone
made Fellows of International Union of Nutritional Sciences in recognition of ‘outstanding service to the cause of nutrition’
Prof Strain ⬇️ receiving award
@NutritionSoc
Annual Fellows Lunch 🏆🏆
Today marks vitamin D day! To celebrate we introduce a background to vitamin D showcasing its importance and the key functions and sources. Keep your eyes peeled over the month of Nov as we will be showcasing some exciting
#NICHEvitd
#research
!
#VitaminD
is important in all ages & stages of life! Deficiency is associated with negative effects on
#bone
metabolism & muscoskeletal health.
@orlagh_feehan
is a 2nd yr
#PhD
researcher looking at bone &
#muscoskeletal
health of older adults in residential care facilities in NI.
Massive congratulations to
@JoannaMJurek
who passed her
#PhD
viva yday with minor corrections! Congrats also to supervisors Drs Philip Allsopp, Emeir McSorley & Violetta Naughton. Thanks to Chair Dr Pamela Magee, internal Prof Mary Ward & external A/Prof Maxine Bonham
#NICHEphd