Erin is a Registered Dietitian and Cancer Researcher with expertise in malnutrition and body composition.

In 2017, she obtained a 1st Class Honours BSc in Human Nutrition & Dietetics from Dublin Institute of Technology & Trinity College Dublin. She then joined University College Cork, to undertake a PhD examining the breadth of the impact of nutrition on the lives of people living with and beyond cancer. In 2021, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship under the Enterprise Partnership Scheme, co-funded by Nualtra Ltd. and in 2022, she completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. At UCC, she led the development of the dietetics practice education programme and taught research methodology topics such as statistics, literature searching and research integrity and continues to contribute as an Adjunct Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics. In 2024, she received the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute’s Research Dietitian of the Year Award. Since joining King’s, she has also obtained her Fellowship of the HEA.

Her main research interests are in the recognition and treatment of cancer-related malnutrition and body composition imaging methodologies. She has expertise in epidemiological methods, clinical trials, mixed methods and evidence synthesis, and is interested in utilising implementation science approaches to develop and evaluate complex interventions incorporating comprehensive assessment and person-centred interventions to optimise patient outcomes in cancer.

Her clinical interests include malnutrition, nutrition impact symptoms and individualised dietetic support before, during and after cancer treatment impacting the GI and HPB systems and holds an honorary contract with the Upper GI Surgery Dietetics Team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She has a specific interest in furthering the application of behavioural change skills and advanced assessment techniques in oncology dietetics.

Erin’s main teaching interests lie in fundamental professional skills such as reflective practice & feedback, dietetic counselling, and evidence-based clinical reasoning in dietetic assessment and diagnosis. She facilitates interactive sessions to develop these skills in a psychologically safe environment, through a combination of lectures, workshops, practicals and high-fidelity simulation with trained patient actors. She also teaches topics related to cancer, nutritional assessment, statistics, and research skills across programmes and implemented a Problem-Based Learning set within Clinical Nutrition, to scaffold continuous professional development skills, in particular, the ability to independently identify and respond to learning needs when presented with an unfamiliar scenario. She is a proponent of experiential learning and embedded employability, acting as Department Careers & Employability Lead for Dietetics.

Erin is committed to professional advocacy for malnutrition, cancer care and post-registration professional development for dietitians, and sits on a number of relevant committees, serving as Research Officer for the BDA Oncology Specialist Group, Management Committee Member for the Irish Society of Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism (IrSPEN) and CPD Lead for the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute’s Cancer Nutrition Network.