Aimee Matthews

Bsc ANutr
Aimee graduated with honours in nutrition from Oxford Brookes University in 2005. Following the completion of her degree Aimee worked in an NHS hospital dietetics department in Oxford before beginning work as a Nutritionist for Leatherhead Food Research, based in Surrey. During her time at Leatherhead she co-ordinated human nutrition intervention trials for members of the food and drink industry to determine the effects of different foods and ingredients on biomarkers of health. Aimee has contributed to media articles and written for Kennedy’s Confection and has collaborated on work published in the Proceedings of the British Journal of Nutrition. She has also written a number of in-house research publications at Leatherhead Food Research. In 2010 she trained as a market analyst with Leatherhead Food, reporting on sectors within the global food and drinks market. Her other interests include travelling and in 2009 she worked briefly as a volunteer community nutritionist in the Philippines. Aimee is a true foodie and interested in all aspects of this fast paced industry from gastronomy to the science of nutrition and food law. She has been an active member of the Nutrition Society since 2005 and has been registered as a Nutritionist since 2008.