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Honorary Professor of Practice, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Belfast

Danielle has an established career as an applied-nutrition scientist, working within academia and in senior leadership teams across the food system, including food manufacture, consumer healthcare, food retail and food tech. Danielle's focus is to help transform business and society in ways that help create a more prosperous, equal, sustainable, healthy world. She applies her expertise in translational and multi-sector applied research to help support the development of impactful partnerships and evidence-based action across the food system. Danielle is also Chief Health Officer at Spoon Guru and Co-founder and Director of Nutrition Talent.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Honorary Professor of Practice, Queen's University Belfast
  • 2018–present
    Co-Founder, Director , Nutrition Talent
  • 2022–present
    Chief Health Officer, Spoon Guru
  • 2018–2023
    Senior lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
  • 2015–2017
    Head of Nutrition , Sainsbury's
  • 2014–2015
    Company Nutritionist, Suntory
  • 2008–2013
    Principal Scientist , GlaxoSmithKline

Education

  • 2007 
    University of Reading, PhD

Publications

  • 2021
    Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial, Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act .
  • 2021
    CooC11 and CooC7: the development and validation of age appropriate children's perceived cooking competence measures, J Behav Nutr Phys Act
  • 2020
    Substantial inter-individual variations in insulin secretion and sensitivity across the glucometabolic spectrum, Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation
  • 2020
    A High Polyphenol Diet Improves Psychological Well-Being: The Polyphenol Intervention Trial (PPhIT), Nutrients
  • 2019
    Effects of dietary fat on insulin secretion in subjects with the metabolic syndrome, European Journal of Endocrinology

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    SusHealth: Sustainable Healthy Diets for All
    Role:
    Co Investigator
    Funding Source:
    UKRI
  • 2022
    Titan: Transparency solutions for transforming the food system
    Role:
    Co Investigator
    Funding Source:
    EU
  • 2020
    We Value Food
    Role:
    Co Investigator
    Funding Source:
    European Institute of Innovation and Technology
  • 2020
    Curating Citizen Engagement: Food Solutions for Future Generations
    Role:
    Co Investigator
    Funding Source:
    European Institute of Innovation and Technology
  • 2020
    XKIC Healthy Citizen and Consumer Engagement
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    European Institute of Innovation and Technology
  • 2019
    Project Daire
    Role:
    Co Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Agri Food Quest

Professional Memberships

  • Nutrition Society
  • Association for Nutrition