Staff profile

Holly is a PhD student and Durham Doctoral Teaching Fellow (AFHEA) within the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences. She previously graduated from Northumbria University with an MSc in Nutritional Science with distinction and holds a first-class undergraduate degree in BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Nutrition. Holly is also a practitioner registrant of the Sport & Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr), with experience providing nutrition support predominantly in academy football and rugby. Alongside her research, Holly has supported Newcastle United Women, as well as the Doncaster Rovers and Newcastle Red Bulls academies. Holly has also taught across the undergraduate and postgraduate (taught) programmes, contributed to marking across several modules, and represented the department at open days and events such as Celebrate Science and Schools' Science Festival.

PhD Research

Holly’s research focuses on supporting both parental and host family food provision to ensure elite academy footballers are meeting their energy demands, whilst giving additional thought to how elite football clubs both advertise and select host families, to support young academy footballers. 

Supervised by

•     Dr Lindsay Macnaughton 

•     Professor Martin Roderick