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Julie Lovegrove

Julie Lovegrove portrait
  • Director of Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition
  • Chair of University of Reading Research Ethics Committee
  • Chair of School of Chemistry Food and Pharmacy Research Ethics Committee
  • Deputy Director of Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research
  • Trustee of Hugh Sinclair Trust committee
  • Member of School Research Planning Group
  • Module Lead FB3NMP Nutrition in the Management and Prevention of Disease

Office

2-13

Building location

Harry Nursten

Areas of interest

Professor Lovegrove’s research interests are on diet in the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases, with focus on the metabolic impact of dietary fats, dairy, plant phytochemicals, nutrient-gene interactions and personalised nutrition. Her work has made a major contribution in establishing the relevance of dietary fat quality to the development of cardiometabolic diseases.

Postgraduate supervision

  • Currently supervising 11 PhD students
  • Supervised 44 PhD students (completing in 4 years)
  • External PhD examiner for 48 students in UK, Europe and Australia

Teaching

  • Over 34 years teaching experience on nutrition-focussed undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.
  • Module lead on ‘Nutrition in the Management and Prevention of Disease' (UG Final year module).

Research centres and groups

  • Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition
  • Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research
  • Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health

Research projects

  • Medical Research Council ‘Data-driven integration of emerging technologies to generate a Standardised and Objective Dietary Intake Assessment Tool’ (2022-2027)
  • BBSRC-Transforming the UK Food System. ‘Raising the Pulse (RtP): Systems analysis of the environmental, nutritional and health benefits of pulse-enhanced foods’ (2022-2025)
  • Barham Foundation ‘Circulating branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) are associated with increased the risk of type 2 diabetes: Does dietary intake of BCAA contribute?’ (2024-2027)
  • Food4Years MRC hub ‘Fibre4Years – fibre in older people’ (2023)
  • Rank Prize Funds ‘Diet Inequity in obesity’ workshop (2023-2024)
  • Rank Prize Funds ‘The Association between intakes of SFA, Protein and Calcium from Different Food Sources and Health and Sustainability’ (2019-2024)
  • Medical Research Council UK-Peru ‘Study of Obesity, Nutrition, and Genes in Peru’ (2020-2024)
  • Joint Academic and Berkshire initiative ‘eNutri-cardio’ (2020-2023)
  • H2020 – Food Nutrition Science-Cloud ‘Food Nutrition Security – Cloud’ (2019-2023)

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Nutritional Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey
  • BSc (Hons) Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Surrey
  • Registered Nutritionist (Nutritional Science) [698]

Awards and honours

  • Fellow of Royal Society of Biology (2024)
  • Demonstrating Excellence (UoR) (2024)
  • British Nutrition Foundation Annual Prize (2022)
  • Fellow of the Association for Nutrition (2013)
  • Leadership Award (RETF-UoR). (2009)
  • Outstanding research (UoR) (2007)
  • Team Teaching Award (UoR) (2006)

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Nutrition Society
  • Academy of Nutritional Sciences
  • American Society of Nutrition
  • Association for Nutrition
  • Royal Society of Biology

External activities

  • Deputy Chair: UK Government's Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition (SACN) (2020-date)
  • Chair: SACN’S Framework and Methods for Evaluation of Evidence subgroup (2021-date)
  • Member: National Diet and Nutrition Survey Project Board (2010-date)
  • Member: Medical Research Council’s Population and Systems Medical Board (2021-date)
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member for Faculty of Life Sciences. University of Vienna (2024-date)
  • Trustee: Academy of Nutrition Sciences (2023-date)
  • Advisory Board for Centre for Global Food Security. QUB. (2018-date)
  • President: The Nutrition Society, UK and Ireland (2019-2023)
  • Deputy Chair: Association for Nutrition (AfN) Council (2016-2019)
  • Chair: AfN Accreditation Committee (2011-2019)
  • Member: SACN Potassiu -based sodium replacers working group (2015-2017)
  • Member: SACN (2009-date)
  • Member: SACN’s ‘Saturated fats and health’ working group (2015-2019Member: SACN’s ‘Carbohydrates and Health' working group (2010-2015)
  • Member: Commonwealth Scholarship Committee (2014-date)

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