Meet Our People
Professor Jayne Woodside
Professor of Human Nutrition within the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s, Jayne was appointed head of the Food, Nutrition and Health theme and Deputy Director of IGFS in 2015.
Her research is focused on how diet and lifestyle affect chronic disease risk. She specialises in the use of biomarkers to assess dietary intake, conducting controlled dietary interventions and interventions to promote long-term dietary change.
She initially studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford, and gained her PhD in nutritional epidemiology from Queen’s in 1997, before taking on a research fellow role at University College London. She returned to Belfast in 2000 to take up a lectureship at Queen’s and was promoted to Chair in 2012.
Jayne has published widely in the nutrition field, with >180 original publications and has current funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute of Health Research and the Wellcome Trust.
Jayne is a Trustee of the Nutrition Society, and is Honorary Publication Officer with responsibility for the Society’s five journals including the British Journal of Nutrition and Public Health Nutrition. She is Editor in Chief of Nutrition Research Reviews, and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Professor Nigel Scollan
Nigel became Director of IGFS and Professor of Animal Science in 2016, bringing with him a wealth of experience in animal agriculture and associated supply chains, food research and knowledge exchange as well as a strong track record of partnering with industry.
His personal research is focused on pastoral ruminant systems in terms of productivity, (2) environmental impact, (3) nutritional value and “quality” of meat and milk products and (4) reduced waste. Nigel has initiated and managed many national and European-funded projects and developed links with science partners in UK, Europe and further afield. He has published over 80-refereed scientific journal papers and a further 200 book chapters and conference proceedings and presented numerous invited papers at international meetings.
Originally from Northern Ireland, Nigel graduated in Animal Science from the University of Edinburgh where he also completed his PhD before undertaking postdoctoral research at the University of Guelph, Canada.
In 1993, he took up a research scientist position at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER) in Wales. In 2008, IGER became part of the new Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University. Nigel held a number of senior management positions in IGER and IBERS, including Waitrose Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and Director of Enterprise.
Nigel was President of the British Society of Animal Science 2011-12 and has been involved in many government, industry and academic forums. Chairman of the scientific journal Animal, he is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society and a Director of the Oxford Farming Conference.
