Located within the Southern Clinical School at Monash Medical Centre, the Nutrition and Dietetics Department is ideally placed to undertake practice based research. Our multi-disciplinary team work together to enhance the student learning experience and provides a rich opportunity to undertake research across a range of areas.
Teaching is conducted at the Clayton Campus by staff within the department alongside experts in the fields of physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Our staff has a wide range of interests in nutrition and dietetics with expertise stretching across the lifespan from infants through to the elderly. We facilitate dietary and nutritional intervention studies and have access to a range of methodologies including an extremely well equipped body composition laboratory. We undertake research projects and consultancies and are involved in a number of activities at both government and non-government levels. A research project Honours year is offered to high achieving undergraduate students while research based higher degrees are also available, with staff advising post graduate students both at Masters and at Doctoral level.
We aim to build the research profile of the department while maintaining and improving undergraduate teaching programs and creating new postgraduate training opportunities for health professionals and scientists.
