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Avril Collinson

 

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Dr Avril Collinson

  • Job title: Lecturer in Dietetics, School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
  • Address: SF 24, PAHC, College of St Mark & St John,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BH
  • Telephone: +441752588848
  • Email: avril.collinson@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
  Acting Programme Lead BSc (Hons) Dietetics  

Qualifications & background
BSc (Hons) Nutrition
RD
PhD in Human Nutrition
PgCert LTHE
  

Professional membership
Member of the British Dietetic Association
Registered with the HPC
Member of the Nutrition Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  


Teaching interests
Nutrition and Health
Clinical Dietetics
Renal Nutrition
 


Research interests
Supervisor to PhD student investigating dietary influences on iron homeostasis

Eating patterns and health
Clinical Nutrition
Renal Nutrition
 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Health and Social Care Innovation (CHeSCI) 
Dietetics and Health 

Publications

Collinson, A. Lindley, R., Campbell, A., Waters, I., Lindley, T. & Wallace, A. (2011) An evaluation of an Internet-based approach to weight loss with low glycaemic load principles. JHND 24, 192-195.

Collinson, A. (2010) Renal disease. In Advancing dietetics and clinical nutrition, eds A. Payne and H. Barker pp. 219-240. London: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.

 

Collinson, A., Wallace, A., Campbell, A., Lindley, R. & Waters I. (2007) Aspire weight loss programme – an evaluation of a nutritionally sound web-based approach to weight loss. JNZDA 64, suppl 3, Conference abstracts.

Watson, S., Collinson, A. & Wilkinson, T. (2007) Healthy Eating, Healthy Ageing – a study to demonstrate the feasibility of targeted nutrition interventions in community living older people identified to be at risk of poor nutrition. JNZDA 64, suppl 3, Conference abstracts.

 

Reports & invited lectures
Invited presentation on 'Aspire weight loss programme - an evaluation of a nutritionally sound web-based approach to weight loss' NZ Dietetics Association Conference, 2007

Invited presentation on 'Healthy eating, healthy ageing - what should older people be eating?' NZ Practice Nurse Conference, 2007

Invited speaker at the European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association, UK Seminar 2001

 


Other academic activities
 

Member of an advisory committee to establish an MSc in Nephrology at the University of Brighton (2005).