Meet the Team

The Food Active team has a broad range of experts specialising in public health nutrition, local and national policy, research, planning for health and community interventions.

We have a team of Registered Nutritionists (with the Association for Nutrition), boasting years of experience in translating nutrition into practice through policy development, delivering training and community interventions and developing social marketing campaigns. Alongside this expertise, we have experience in town planning, physical activity, public affairs, project management, research and evaluation. We also work with a number of associates to support us on a range of different projects and specialist areas.

Explore the members of our team and associates, and their expertise below.

NICOLA CALDER
Programme Lead

BETH BRADSHAW
Project Manager

CHLOÉ HIGHAM-SMITH
Project Officer

DR ROBIN IRELAND
Director of Research (Honorary)

DR MATTHEW PHILPOTT
Executive Director

MICHAEL VIGGARS
Project Manager

LEE GULWELL
Project Manager

RICHARD GLENDINNING
Associate – Social Research

ANDREW BENNETT
Associate – Trauma Informed Practice

PROFESSOR SIMON CAPEWELL
Scientific Advisor (Honorary)

PROFESSOR MATT ASHTON
Lead Director of Public Health (Honorary)

ABOUT US

Find out more about the Food Active team and the Food Active Network

What we Do

Find out more about our programme of work and our priorities

Policy Change

Explore our work on influencing policy both locally and nationally

Campaigns

Discover our range of campaigns to promote behaviour change

Research

Find out more about our research to understand and explore the food environment

Events

Get up to speed with our past conferences and events programme