About us
From humble beginnings originally within the Department of Medicine, the then first undergraduate dietetics course in Victoria commenced at Monash in 2000. Nutrition and Dietetics has since greatly expanded and was officially launched as a department in its own right in October 2010. In 2012 the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics is offered a new undergraduate course in Nutrition Science, with the first graduates in 2014, as well as continuing to deliver the undergraduate course in Nutrition and Dietetics. These courses aim to assist students wanting to pursue an interest in the field of nutritional health.
A research project Honours year is offered to high achieving undergraduate students while research based higher degrees are also available, with staff advising post graduate students both at Masters and at Doctoral level.
In 2012 the department has re-located to new offices in Notting Hill. This provides facilities such as the Be Active Sleep Eat (BASE) which includes a sleep laboratory, a commercial kitchen, exercise spaces and areas for collecting blood and urine samples, giving researchers a chance to individualise weight management programs and collect valuable information in a friendly space. Furthermore as a department within the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health based at Monash Medical Centre, the Nutrition and Dietetics Department is ideally placed to undertake practice based research. Our multi-disciplinary team work together to enhance the student learning experience and provides a rich opportunity to undertake research across a range of areas.
Teaching is conducted at Notting Hill and Clayton Campuses by staff within the department alongside experts in the fields of physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Our staff has a wide range of interests in nutrition and dietetics with expertise stretching across the lifespan from infants through to the elderly. We facilitate dietary and nutritional intervention studies and have access to a range of methodologies including an extremely well equipped body composition laboratory. We undertake research projects and consultancies and are involved in a number of activities at both government and non-government levels.