Welcome!

In the context of research, the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences is one of the most internationally-recognised, globally-connected, multiple award-winning, highly- and diversely-funded, ambitious and extremely impactful academic unit in UCC.

Our principal investigators, researchers, postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers have a long and successful history in partnering with leading academic and research institutions globally and industry, to providing ground breaking research that shapes sustainable food production, processing and consumption in Ireland and across the world.

The School is committed to providing high quality postgraduate and postdoctoral research training, supporting innovation in the food industry and consumer health protection, and engaging in the transfer of new knowledge to end-users and stake-holders, including industry, regulatory authorities and policy makers.

The following sections of this site are designed to provide you with further details on our research team, facilities, research focus areas, publication outputs, collaborations, impact and showcase selected research outputs in the form of our seminar series, research newsletter and case studies.

For further information, please contact Prof Seamus O’Mahony, Chair of the School Research and innovation Committee at sa.omahony@ucc.ie