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Dr Meghan Brown

Senior Lecturer

Dr Meghan Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition and is Course Leader for the Postgraduate Sport and Exercise Nutrition courses within the School of Sport.

Meghan completed her PhD research at Northumbria University titled "energy balance, exercise-induced muscle damage, and the efficacy of nutritional interventions on recovery in female dancers" supervised by Professor Emma Stevenson and Professor Glyn Howatson. She previously obtained a 1st class honours degree in Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Northumbria University. She previously worked at the University of Gloucestershire and Birmingham City University as a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition before joining Leeds Beckett University in September 2021.

Meghan is a registrant with the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Current Teaching

Meghan is Course Leader for the Postgraduate Sport & Exercise Nutrition courses and currently leads or contributes to a number of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research Interests

Meghan has many research interests but primarily in three prominent areas of sport and exercise nutrition and metabolism:

The physiological and functional responses to muscle-damaging exercise and nutritional interventions to promote recovery
The female athlete / exerciser and dancers
The consequences of low energy availability

Meghan has been involved in dance from a young age and has worked closely with this population in particular. She also has a special interest in energy availability and the specific requirements of female athletes.

Meghan supervises a range of undergraduate and postgraduate research projects.