You are warmly invited to attend the next seminar of the UCC Futures Lecture Series, a new platform designed to spark interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration across our research communities.

UCC Futures are delighted to welcome Professor Louise Dye, a world-leading psychologist whose work examines effects of nutrition on cognitive function, health and wellbeing and how to encourage and sustain dietary behaviour change at individual, organisational, and societal levels. In her lecture, Professor Dye will explore the Impact of nutritional interventions on cognitive function and psychological wellbeing across the lifespan, and how this work is now embedded in policy.

Louise is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield. She previously spent 30 years at the University of Leeds where she developed expertise in the design of both laboratory based experimental studies and free-living interventions. Her work on breakfast and cognition has highlighted the importance of diet in children and underpinned the new government school breakfast policy. She sits on the food insecurity taskforce for Leeds City Council and has examined its implications for mental health. Louise is Co-Director of the SFI/DAERA/UKRI funded Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and leads a work package on increasing dietary fibre intake in low-income consumers in the UKRI funded H3 project. She is also Co-Director of the National Alternative Protein Innovation Knowledge Centre where she leads the People pillar which aims to understand and improve consumer acceptance of alternative protein.

This event aims to bring together colleagues, alumni and friends from across disciplines,  including health sciences, social sciences, humanities, and beyond, to consider how collaborative, cross-sector approaches can reshape the future of cognitive function and nutrition. We particularly encourage those interested in interdisciplinary partnerships and innovative methodologies to join the conversation.

UCC look forward to an engaging and thought-provoking start to the UCC Futures Lecture Series.