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Working with the food industry is very important for both our success and a safe, healthy future.

Help us train tomorrow's food industry talent

Professional placements are a very important consideration for our students: being able to work in a commercial food environment and gain valuable experience allows them to graduate with the skills and experience they need to prosper. By extension, by accepting placement students in your business, you will receive an enthusiastic, curious and fully briefed employee. The world-leading reputation of our graduates is enhanced by this industrial training.

Please contact us if you would be interested in partnering with us in a placement programme.

Help us to continue our world-leading research

Our research is recognised internationally for its outstanding quality and the tangible impact it brings to society and industry. We achieve real progress in food and nutritional sciences through working in partnership with stakeholders to generate benefit for science, business and the population's health. Working with us, your business safeguards a healthy future for this industry and society as a whole.

Please get in touch to support our ongoing research.

Industrial expertise from the Food Centre

We are a world-leading authority on the science of food, and we are eager to work with business to create a safer, healthier future. Your business could benefit from our experience – we offer consulting services and strategic advice for the food industry.

Food Centre

Read our case studies (PDF)