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Research Interests
Dr Danielle McCarthy comes to this position from an established career working across the Food, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Tech Industries. She has previously held positions as Principal Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline and Head of Nutrition at Sainsbury’s, a leading UK food retailer. Her industry expertise lies in the design and commercialisation of nutrition and health research, through new product and service development, communications and delivery of commercial health strategies.
Her approach is highly integrative, working across sectors, skills and disciplines.
Danielle’s research explores citizen-centric approaches to improve societal health and wellbeing. Be the outputs educational resources, food products or services, digital tech inventions or community initiatives, the focus of her work is to understand how citizen engagement is integrated in the co-design and delivery of solutions to improve population health. She is passionate about having a multi-disciplinary, cross stakeholder approach to her research, connecting businesses & organisations, education centres and research institutes with citizens to ensure research outcomes are of most relevance, trusted, accessible and scalable.
Integrating data informatics as a route to future proofed food production and food behaviours is also an area of interest.
Current research projects include;
Daire: Derry/Londonderry as the nexus city for food, education, trust and health
We Value Food: Improving future generations knowledge of, and engagement with, food with an entrepreneurial approach
XKIC Healthy Citizen and Consumer Engagement
Teaching includes;
Danielle delivers lectures across undergraduate and postgraduate courses
- Fundamentals of Nutrition and Food Policy
- Food Choice, Diet and Health
- Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Danielle supports BSc. MSc. and PhD students with their research projects
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Projects
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R6604GFS: Ivaluefood
Brereton, P., Dean, M., Dunne, L., McCarthy, D. & Woodside, J.
20/12/2018 → …
Project: Research
Research Output
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A High Polyphenol Diet Improves Psychological Well-Being: The Polyphenol Intervention Trial (PPhIT)
Kontogianni, M. D., Vijayakumar, A., Rooney, C., Noad, R. L., Appleton, K. M., McCarthy, D., Donnelly, M., Young, I. S., McKinley, M. C., McKeown, P. P. & Woodside, J. V., 14 Aug 2020, In : Nutrients. 12, 8Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Capturing the school food environment in primary schools
Moore, S. E., Brennan, S. F., Lavelle, F., Dean, M., McKinley, M. C., McCole, P., Hunter, R. F., Dunne, L., O'Connell, N. E., Cardwell, C. R., Elliott, C. T., McCarthy, D. & Woodside, J. V., 19 Oct 2020, In : Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 79, OCE3, 1 p., E746.Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review
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Primary school-based food environment intervention for improved behaviour, food knowledge and dietary habits: Results from Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial evaluation
Brennan, S. F., Lavelle, F., Moore, S. E., Dean, M., McKinley, M. C., McCole, P., Hunter, R. F., Dunne, L., O’Connell, N. E., Cardwell, C. R., Elliott, C. T., McCarthy, D. & Woodside, J. V., 19 Oct 2020, In : Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. E738.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Substantial inter-individual variations in insulin secretion and sensitivity across the glucometabolic spectrum
McCarthy, D., 05 Mar 2020, In : Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation. p. 1502Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Childhood Involvement in Family Food Preparation and Shopping Attitudes Towards Food: Baseline Results from Project Daire
Brennan, S., Lavelle, F., Moore, S., Dean, M., McKinley, M., McCole, P., Hunter, R., Dunne, L., O'Connell, N., Elliott, C., McCarthy, D. & Woodside, J., 15 Oct 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Activities
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Childhood Obesity Workshop
Danielle McCarthy (Participant)
14 May 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Food on the Curriculum
Danielle McCarthy (Participant)
22 Jan 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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13th European Nutrition Conference
Danielle McCarthy (Participant)
17 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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ESRC Festival of Social Science
Danielle McCarthy (Member of the organising committee) & Sarah Moore (Organiser)
08 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in Festival/Exhibition
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Childhood Obesity Strategic Insight Lab
Danielle McCarthy (Participant) & Jayne Woodside (Participant)
21 Oct 2019 → 22 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press / Media
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Home cooking, an opportunity to change food habits for good
27/04/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment