About Us

Alice Benskin is a registered nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition, with a specialism in nutrition science. She has nearly a decade of experience working in the food industry, nutrition education and nutrition research. She graduated with a BSc in Nutrition Science in 2013, where her key research focuses were obesity and type II diabetes with relation to increased risk of secondary diseases states atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. She then worked in agriculture and supply chain in business operations capacity for several years. In 2020, she completed an MSc in Personalised Nutrition, with key focuses on the emerging area of nutritional neuroscience and nutritional psychiatry, culminating in a thesis project exploring novel nutrition intervention in hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). She was on placement during this time at the University of Oxford researching the impact of breastfeeding and bottlefeeding on infant pain responses following medically required heel lances, before the pandemic started. During the pandemic, Alice qualified as a yoga teacher, and taught survivors of domestic abuse, developing a keen interest in lifestyle interventions for supporting survivors of complex trauma and the field of psychotraumatology. Following the pandemic, she then worked as head of nutrition research for a charity in the field of nutrition and brain health and mental wellbeing, with a primary focus on prevention via nutrition and lifestyle interventions of chronic conditions, and nutrition for the promotion of cognitive resilience across the lifespan. She is presently studying for a MSc in Psychology with the University of Wolverhampton, whilst working as Head of Partnerships for Nutritank, a pioneering organisation empowering medical students to further expand their nutritional and lifestyle knowledge, so they can translate this information to the rest of the medical community and their patients. She is also a Nutrition Scientist for a personalised nutrition start up, in the emerging area of Artificial Intelligence and wearable data. She is also volunteering as an intern in the Health Information Team for World Cancer Research Fund, and as research and policy advisor for a small charity supporting families with relation to forming healthy eating patterns and preventing obesity. She is Development Coordinator here at Nutrition Graduates, and has a huge passion for the next generation of nutritionists to be empowered and supported to reach their full potential, and grow in confidence and competence as practitioners. Her dream is to see communities empowered to make positive changes with relation to nutrition and lifestyle interventions to support health span, and to see more women, people of colour and parents of young children represented and involved in nutrition research and pursuing MSc and PhD studies in this area. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because