Dietetics facilities

Explore the facilities available to you as a dietetics student
Students preparing food in the Kitchen Laboratory, Link Building

Teaching facilities

Our students have access to a range of modern facilities, all helping to prepare you for your future role as a dietitian.

Dietetics students during a practical cooking session, Kitchen Lab, Link Building Kitchen Laboratory
 A hands-on learning environment allowing you to gain practical experience in cooking and preparing food and focus on creating and implementing diets for various purposes, including those for healthy individuals, sports nutrition, and therapeutic diets.

InterCity Place InterCity Place
Undertake a range of activities in clinical skills areas such as wards, consulting rooms and community home environment. Practice and consolidate skills, helping to prepare you for placements and your future role as a dietitian

Person at laptop - showing idea of online nutrition clinic Online nutrition clinic
 This clinic is run by dietetics students with supervision from registered dietitians. It provides free dietary advice to University of Plymouth staff, the local community, and wider afield through social media.

Research facilities

You may also have the opportunity to use the Analytical Lab, Exercise Lab, Phlebotomy Lab, and Level 2 Containment Lab to run research projects, develop a food, test foods and explore how the body is responding to food.  
Students are also able to take part as participants if they want to, to see what is involved, and be part of the research process. This helps you to develop a deeper understanding of the processes involved in evidence-based practice - key to your future work as dietitians and nutritionists.  

Students in the Analytical Laboratory, Link Building Analytical Laboratory
 This lab is specifically dedicated to the testing, analysis and evaluation of food products and will allow you to process and analyse food samples ensuring the safety, quality, and compliance of food items.

Students being shown equipment in the Exercise Laboratory, Smeaton Building Exercise Laboratory
 In this facility you can analyse the physiological responses and adaptions to exercise and diet enabling you to apply theoretical knowledge, conduct experiments, and gain practical skills in physiological assessment.

Students having sample taken in the Phlebotomy Laboratory Phlebotomy Laboratory
 The phlebotomy lab is a specialised facility designed for the collection of biological samples including blood and saliva samples.

Students in the Containment laboratory, Link building Containment Laboratory
 This facility is designed for working with moderate-risk biological agents. It serves as the workspace for students and researchers who are processing and analysing biological samples that pose a moderate hazard to personnel and the environment