The current subject area information is for 2025 entry, we will be updating the pages for 2026 entry in due course.

Congratulations on your offer to study one of our Nutritional Sciences postgraduate degrees in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London; including Dietetics MSc/PGDip and Nutrition MSc.

We're thrilled to welcome you and look forward to you joining our community. Explore the content below for useful tips and information to help you prepare for your studies and get a feel for your course. There are so many ways you can keep connected over the next few months including chatting to both staff and students and attending events.

You will also find any upcoming events listed below, so please keep checking for updates.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics courses.
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students on unibuddy.
• Got a question? Chat to Programme Director Kevin Walsh or Clinical Placement Tutor Clare Cremin for Dietetics, or Dr Chris Corpe for Nutrition.
• Take an online tour of our Waterloo Campus - home of our courses.
• Take a look at some further information below for offer holders such as our Accommodation guide and pre-sessional English language programmes.

• Your mandatory induction will be held in person on Thursday 25 September 2025 from 10.00-16.00 at the Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus. This is an important session where you will meet members of the teaching team, get a detailed overview of the structure of the programme, and hear about assessment strategies and learning support. You will also start to get to know your fellow students. 
• Teaching starts the following Monday 29 September.
• You should receive information on how and when to register from the Admissions Team. You will also be asked to complete Occupational Health screening and Disclosure and Barring Service documentation as part of this process.
• Dr Erin Stella Sullivan is the Dietetics Careers Education Lead and has shared some resources from the British Dietetic Association about dietetics careers and the different types of nutrition professionals you may find interesting to engage with before you join us.

These are not compulsory but are recommended if there are areas you have not studied for a while or that you would like to strengthen your knowledge in, so you can hit the ground running. All the resources you need for the modules above will be communicated to you when you are introduced to course. Anyone looking to get ahead with any reading from the programme may wish to access the Manual of Dietetic Practice (Gandy, J. (2019) Manual of Dietetic Practice. Sixth edition. Newark: Wiley), which is a core reference text for many modules on the programme.

Nutritional Science

It is important that your knowledge and understanding of nutritional science and metabolism are up to date before you start the course. These books may help if there are areas you wish to review but you may also have your own resources from previous study.

Vorster H, Hill TR, Gallagher A, Lanham-New SA. (2019). Introduction to Human Nutrition, 3rd ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

OR

Lanham-New S, MacDonald I, Roche H. (2010). Nutrition and Metabolism, 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

Critical Appraisal & Nutrition Research Methods

This is useful if you want to brush up on your research methods and critical appraisal skills and there are also lots of resources online e.g. http://www.casp-uk.net/

Greenhalgh T. (2014). How to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine. John Wiley & Sons.

Lovegrove J, Hodson L, Sharma S, Lanham-New SA, Krebs J. (2015) Nutrition Research Methodologies. John Wiley & Sons

Food knowledge and portion sizes

Improving your skills in this area is a part of the course, but if you would like to start developing these in advance you can spend time exploring foods in the supermarket, read labels and also look at portion sizes through a book like the one suggested here or weighing food at home.

Cheyette, C., & Balolia, Y. (2016). Carbs & Cals. Chello Publishing.

Arrange an online meeting with Dr Kevin Walsh, Dietetics MSc Programme Lead to ask any questions you may have about studying the programme at King's.

Book a meeting at a time that suits you here.

Alternatively, chat to Dr Kevin Walsh on Unibuddy here.

Watch a recording of the Careers and Student Experience Event for postgraduate offer holders. Hear from the panel consisting of staff from the faculty as well as current students. This event took place on 3 June 2024.

Please note: Captions for this video have been auto-generated and will be reviewed soon.

Founded in 1945, the Department of Nutritional Sciences was the first university department of nutrition in Europe and has been at the forefront of evidence-based nutritional science and dietetic research ever since. Our mission is to find new ways to prevent and treat disease by better understanding the mechanisms of human metabolism. Find out more about the department on the Department of Nutritional Sciences webpage.

Watch Dr Chris Corpe deliver an overview of Nutrition MSc.

End of year exams for MSc Nutrition students are held in Period 2, which is normally in early May.

End of year exams will be in person at a college campus venue and students will be provided with a computer to type and submit their answers under timed conditions (2hrs). The exams will be invigilated and there will be no access to google or other websites.

Students who are unsuccessful in their end of year exams will need to resit their exams in Period 1, which is in early January the following year. Marks for resit exams are capped at 50%. Same as P2, all exams are in person and for a duration of 2 hours.

Arrange an online meeting to speak with Dr Chris Corpe, Nutrition MSc Programme Lead to ask any questions you have about studying the programme at King's.

Book a meeting at a time that suits you here.