Karen Reid

Experience

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  Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

  Jan 1987 - Jan 1998

  Health Promotion Dietitian

  Planning, management, delivery and evaluation of a variety of local nutrition and physical activity related health promotion programmes. The role entailed extensive inter-agency collaboration and innovation in developing and leading health promotion interventions aimed at achieving national and local health related targets. Examples include “New Image”, a women’s health project, a GP referral scheme for diet and exercise advice, awareness of folic acid and osteoporosis, child nutrition policy and work with ethnic minority groups. The “New Image” project received national recognition. This post provided an excellent opportunity for developing good communication and team-working skills and expertise in facilitating short training courses, and in the production of health promotion and educational resources. Show less

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  Crystal Palace FC

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1996

  Consultant Dietitian

  Individual consultations with players and team educational talks. Educational sessions for apprentices and advice to landladies on suitable meals and menus for young players.

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  National Field Archery Squad

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  National Governing Body Nutritionist

  Nutrition strategies for individuals and support at overseas tournaments.

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  English Hockey Association

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2001

  National Governing Body Dietitian

  Planning and delivery of a performance nutrition programme for mens and womens national squads. Nutritional preparation of players for the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and Sydney Olympics including education on personal hydration monitoring during the pre-commonwealth games acclimation training and development of eating and drinking schedules to replenish fluid and electrolyte losses.

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  Welsh Rugby Union

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  National Squad Dietitian

  Nutritional preparation of National Squad players for International test matches, 6 Nations tournaments and overseas tours.

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  UK Athletics

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

  Performance Nutritionist

  Working with a number of track and field athletes athletes on the UK Athletics World Class Performance Plan as well as the delivery of the UKA nutrition education programme to development athletes. Athletics involves a number of different disciplines with widely varying nutritional requirements and an appreciation of these and an ability to tailor the advice has been a key requirement of the nutrition support.

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  Performance Food Ltd

  Jan 2002 - now

  Nutrition Director

  Performance Nutrition support for individuals, teams, squads, and governing bodies and development of sports specific nutrition protocols and meals and menus. Working with individual athletes from a range of sports including Athletics, Rugby and Tennis. Past and present clients include British Fencing, Football clubs, Referee and Linesmen's Association, Laureus Foundation, Royal Navy, RNLI, European Golf Tour, Lawn Tennis Association, Bristol University Sports, Chartex, Marathon Sports Foundation. Show less

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  English Institute of Sport

  Nov 2002 - Jan 2007

  Lead Nutritionist RFUW

  Lead nutritionist to the England womens rugby programme and nutrition support to athletes in the London region including canoeing, fencing and the endurance athletes based at St Mary's.

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  Canterbury High Elite Sports Academy

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Performance Nutritionist

  Nutrition support to individual athletes.Delivery of educational sessions and practical workshops. Pilot project for the development of the AASE Sports Nutrition workshops for the AASE Athletics programme.Development of Performance Food meals and menus at the Canterbury High Elite Sports Academy for 120 young elite sports performers from sports including football, basketball, tennis, dance, rugby and athletics.

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  University of Kent

  Jan 2007 - Feb 2012

  Performance Nutritionist

  Nutrition support to University of Kent sports scholars at Canterbury and Medway campuses including educational sessions for new scholars and 1:1 nutritional support for those wishing to develop individual nutrition programmes. Nutrition education sessions for sports scholars at Kings School Canterbury, with a particular focus on rugby.

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  Coventry University

  Jan 2008 - Sept 2013

  Visiting Lecturer

  Lectures and seminars on applied sports nutrition to the PG Certificate in Sport & Exercise Nutrition.

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  AASE Athletics

  Jan 2009 - Dec 2020

  Performance Nutritionist

  Delivery of the nutrition component of the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE) in partnership with British Athletics and Marathon Sports Foundation in London and the South East Region. I have delivered 10 programmes and due to the success and positive feedback expanded to coordinate a team of 6 SENr Nutritionists supporting over 80 talented young athletes at Lee Valley Athletics Centre, Edmonton and St Mary's College, Twickenham.

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  Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC)

  Dec 2012 - Dec 2021

  Associate Tutor

  Teaching on the Nutrition and Dietetic, Public Health Nutrition and Sports Biomedicine and Nutrition programs. Careers lecture on becoming a registered Sport and Exercise Nutritionist (SENr)

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  University of Roehampton

  Dec 2012 - Dec 2021

  Visiting Lecturer

  Lecturing on undergraduate modules, Principles of Human Nutrition, Nutrition Through the Lifespan and Public Health and Health Promotion and Sports Nutrition. Postgraduate teaching on the MSc. Clinical Nutrition and Assessment of Body Composition Practical. Supervision of MSc student projects with a focus on Sports Nutrition. Module convenor for distance learning students and moderator for the Laureate programme in Public Health.

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  FrieslandCampina

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2024

  FrieslandCampina Institute

  UK Representative. External communications Nutrition with a particular focus on Sports Nutrition, Goodness of Dairy and Sustainability.

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  Cardiff Metropolitan University

  Jan 2022 - now

  Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Sports Nutrition

  Working within the School of Sport and Health Sciences Karen is programme director for the MSc Nutrition for Sport & Exercise leading to SENr registration and module leader for Level 6 Sports Nutrition taught across the BSc (Hons) Nutrition, Sport Exercise Science and Biomedical Sciences programmes Health Exercise and Nutrition programmes. She also teaches general Nutrition at Level 5, and supports nutrition students with their applied nutrition projects and final year dissertations.