Life course research broadly includes Nutrition, Mental Health and Ageing.
Southampton research themes include:
- Nutrition: Our researchers are analysing how diet, nutrition and lifestyle can affect growth, development, metabolism and function with a view to develop new ways to improve public health and clinical practice.
- Mental Health: Our expertise in child development, psychological interventions and affective neuroscience combine to deliver cutting edge research that has the potential to improve mental health treatments and wellbeing across the lifespan.
- Ageing: Our interdisciplinary researchers work together to examine ageing and dementia with a translational approach that will impact on policy and clinical and professional practice.