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Cromore Road, Coleraine Campus
BT52 1SA Coleraine
United Kingdom
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Kirsty graduated from Ulster University with a BSc Hons (first class) Human Nutrition, followed by a PhD in Nutrition. She worked as a Research Associate within the Nutrition team at Ulster on a range of externally funded research projects (2011-2014), before being promoted to Research Fellow in July 2014 and taking up her current Teaching Fellow role in 2019.
Her research at the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) is focused on agri-food nutrition and consumer innovation, and she also has a particular interest in vitamin D requirements for health. She has supervised a number of PhDs to successful completion across these research areas.
Kirsty has experience of conducting controlled human intervention studies in different population and clinical groups Kirsty is author on more than 45 peer-reviewed publications investigating various aspects of agri-food nutrition and consumer innovation, food choice, vitamin D and health. In 2014, Kirsty was the inaugural recipient of the Julie Wallace Medal Lecture awarded by the Nutrition Society in recognition of early stage scientific excellence in the field of nutrition.
PhD
Oct 2007 → Oct 2010
Award Date: 1 Feb 2011
Bachelor, School of Biomedical Sciences
Sep 2003 → Jul 2007
Award Date: 1 Jul 2007
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Pourshahidi, Kirsty (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Other distinction
Kirsty Pourshahidi (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Kirsty Pourshahidi (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Kirsty Pourshahidi (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Kirsty Pourshahidi (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Kirsty Pourshahidi (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of network