Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition MSc

This Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition course provides knowledge and skills in the classification, aetiology, epidemiology, and risk for eating disorders. It explores the physical and psychiatric assessment and treatment of eating disordered patients of different ages, sex, and ethnic groups. It also concentrates on management and service development in the eating disorders field.

Our teaching includes a variety of methods, including practical approaches, research methods, seminars, tutorials, and clinical observation sessions at eating disorders treatment centres.

MSc students complete an independent research project, usually with a supervisor from UCL or a suitable qualified external supervisor such as a consultant psychiatrist or clinical psychologist. You can also explore research areas that interest you and contact relevant departments to see if they can offer a project.

Though our degree is clinically focused, it is not clinical training and does not qualify graduates to work independently with patients with eating disorders. It does give an excellent grounding for a clinical training in, for example, dietetics, psychology or psychiatry and is intended for students hoping to work in research or service provision and development in eating disorders.