The course focuses on the food chain and issues that are important to consumers, such as nutrition and safety. We’ll equip you for professional life, with skills that will make you attractive to employers.

We offer a supportive, close-knit working environment. Class sizes are small. Staff and students are on first name terms, and you’ll be assigned a personal tutor from day one.

You’ll graduate with:

• A deep understanding of the impact of food provision
• An understanding of the role of nutrition on health
• Familiarity with the scientific principles and laboratory techniques used in the examination and analysis of food
• An informed attitude to ethical and environmental concerns associated with food production.

Work placements, industry links and internships

We provide opportunities in areas allied to food and nutrition such as business and enterprise, environmental management, and science/food writing. As part of the Food and Nutrition in Practice module (Work based module), our students have:

• Developed sports milk;
• Developed low sugar ice-cream;
• Created weight management resources for teenagers;
• Worked with the NHS to develop a tool for analysing weight loss phone apps and healthy eating resources for dietitians;
• Developed recipe cards for Heart UK;
• Developed an interactive food hygiene resource for schools with Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) council;
• Developed hygiene guidance for home catering businesses with BANES Environmental Health Department (now in use across South West England);
• Developed a white chocolate lemon meringue bar for Marshfield Bakery;
• Developed a salsa dip for Tracklements (now in production); and
• Developed a pie for Pieminister (now in production)

Employers such as Oasis Foods, Kerry Foods, Leatherhead Food Research, Coldwater Seafoods and Ferndale Foods have recruited graduates from this course.

Students have gone into roles including:

• Food Development Technologist
• Research Technician
• Assistant Scientific Officer
• Nutritionist
• Product Developer
• Quality Controller
• Teacher