Michael Clapham - Research Profile

Michael Clapham, Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition

Michael Clapham is a registered dietician and a registered public health nutritionist. During his earlier career he worked in the NHS as a dietician in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. Latterly he managed Birmingham’s coronary heart disease prevention programme. He also has commercial experience having held the position of Technical Manager at Warbutons Bakers.

For the past 20 years he has worked in the university sector - 16 of those at Queen Margaret University. He currently conducts teaching and cutting research within QMU’s School of Health Sciences.

As a specialist in school meals, Michael was an expert member of the committee that produced ‘Hungry for Success’ – The Scottish Government’s School Meals policy. He is now investigating the effectiveness of the School Meals policy within East Lothian on primary school children and Fife where the focus will be on secondary school children.

Some of his current research projects include an investigation of the nutritional quality of pre-school children’s diets. This work is focuses on children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Edinburgh.

His work with diet analysis has led to his cutting edge development of the use of technology to monitor dietary intake. He is currently involved in an innovative research project which uses mobile technology to collect dietary intake data. The technology, which will allow more people than ever before to benefit from dietary monitoring and specialist dietary advice, has the potential to impact positively on Scotland’s poor health record.

CONSULTANCY

Queen Margaret University has a range of experts who are available to work with business, research partners and government organisations.

Over the years Michael has provided his nutritional expertise to a wide range of government, sporting and commercial organisations including The Scottish Government, Scottish Institute for Sport, Food Standard Agency, Councils, and various food businesses including Kelloggs.

If you’re interested in accessing Michael’s expertise to assist your business/project development pleased contact: Sue Gordon, Business Development Manager, E: sgordon@qmu.ac.uk or Kim Gilchrist, Senior Research Officer, E:kgilchrist@qmu.ac.uk or T: 0131 474 0000 and ask for each member of staff by name.

KEY MEDIA TALKING POINTS

Michael Clapham would be happy to provide specialist comment to the media in the following areas:

• the nutritional aspects of children’s food eg school meals, children’s packed lunches and street food (fast food)
• use of new technologies to measure dietary intake in children and adults

CONTACT:

If you require Michael Clapham for comment, please contact Lynne Russell , Press and PR Officer, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, tel: 0131 317 3652, mobile: 07711 011239.