Food Innovation

This program will prepare you for a career in the food and beverage industry as a technologist capable of ensuring the production of ethical, safe, and wholesome food and drinks. You’ll study the scientific disciplines fundamental to the development of novel foods and drinks and the business acumen (including finance and management) to be innovative. Thanks to a period of industrial placement, you’ll develop your skills in a real-world setting and be able to apply your health and safety training. Industry lectures, field trips, on-site training, contracts of learning through work placement, and applied research projects will enhance your theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The food and beverage processing industries will continue to require trained personnel. Our graduates have careers as entrepreneurs, managers, scientists, and technologists in the food and drinks industries, research facilities, government agencies, the retail sector, sales, etc. Their roles include quality control/assurance, new-product development, product analysis and safety, laboratory-based manufacture, sales, etc.