Sugar, Fat and Fad Diets: A No Nonsense Guide to Nutrition and Health is an 8 week short course taught by Dr Colette O’Neill and Dr Aoife McNamara
7pm-9pm |1 October – 19 November
Location: Western Gateway Building, Room G13, UCC
Closing date for applications: 20th of September 2024

Course Overview:
This 8-week course will explore nutrition concepts that take centre stage in the media and become hot topics of conversation among those interested in food and health.

Course Lecturer:
Dr Aoife McNamara has a strong background in nutritional sciences [BSc (Human Nutrition); PhD (Nutritional Metabolomics)]. She has completed her PhD in 2019 in the area of specific food biomarkers of dietary intake in University College Dublin. She has also completed research in dietary patterns, dietary intakes of preschool children, dietary supplementation influence on breastmilk composition and dietary intake and mental health. She is currently carrying out research in the area of iron deficiency in pregnancy and early infancy at UCC. She has lectured in the area of Nutritional Assessment, Critical Thinking for Scientific Writing, Nutrition for Physiology, Omic Technologies for Nutrition in UCD previously and Fundamentals for Nutrition in UCC.

Dr Niamh Walsh graduated from University College Cork with a BSc. in Nutritional Sciences. Niamh’s research interests focus on public health nutrition, particularly at key life stages such as pregnancy, childhood and adolescence. Niamh worked as a fieldworker on the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative Study (COSI) collecting anthropometric measurements of school children across Cork and Kerry. Niamh completed her MSc. in the UCD Perinatal Research Centre at the National Maternity Hospital where her work focused on low calorie sweetener (LCS) intakes during pregnancy as well as the role of patient and public involvement in research (PPI). Niamh’s PhD focused on micronutrient intakes in teenagers, with a particular emphasis on the role of fortified foods. Niamh has published and presented her work at numerous national and international conferences.

Entry Requirements:
Applicants must be at least 18 years old at course commencement.

Contact Details for Further Information:
Email: shortcourses@ucc.ie

Please note our refund policy as follows:

• 100% refund if student cancels 1 week prior to course commencement, less €50 processing fee.
• 100% refund if student’s course is cancelled due to insufficient numbers.

Please note that ACE will receive your contact details so as to email you with any necessary information regarding the course