Burcu Aksoy, Stacey Lockyer and Teresa Valero
Sabri Ãœlker Foundation, Turkey
Biography
Dr Burcu Aksoy BSc MSc PhD
Nutrition Scientist
Burcu has been Nutrition and Scientific Communication Executive since 2016. Prior to this position, she was Research Assistant at Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in Hacettepe Universiy in Ankara, Turkey between 2007- 2016. She graduated from the Hacettepe University with bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and MSc in Dietetics program of Institute of Health Sciences in Hacettepe University and PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics program of Institue of Health Sciences in Hacettepe University respectively 2010 and 2016. She studied the relation between plasma fatty acids, amino acids levels and the nutrition status of adults in her PhD.
Dr Stacey Lockyer BSc MSc PhD RNutr
Nutrition Scientist
Stacey was inspired to work in public health nutrition by the launch of the FSA’s 5 A DAY campaign during her degree in Biology with Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London and went on to study MSc Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Reading, working on a human study looking into fish oil and vascular function for her dissertation. Stacey spent the next two years as a research assistant investigating the effects of ApoE genotype and dietary fat manipulation on heart disease risk markers before beginning her PhD studying olive leaf polyphenols, part of which involved running a human study at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at Massey University in Auckland New Zealand. Stacey was the Nutrition Society Student Member of Council for two years during her PhD which involved organising conference events for student members along with writing for the Nutrition Society Gazette. Following gaining her doctorate Stacey worked at the Royal College of Physicians as a research fellow, performing systematic reviews for t development of NICE guidelines before joining the BNF as a nutrition scientist in June 2015.
Abstract
Abstract : Implementation of nutrition education programmes in schools: Approaches from Turkey, UK and Spain
