Dr Caroline Taylor
B.Sc.(Sur.), Ph.D.(R.Gordon)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Nutrition
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am an academic nutritionist with research interests in maternal and child nutrition. My main project - the PEAR (Pregnancy, the Envionment And nutRition) Study - concerns dietary exposures to toxic metals in pregnancy, funded by an MRC Career Development Award (2020-2025). Additional projects that I lead include studies on preschool child eating behaviour (picky eating) and on the effect of early nutrition on health and development outcomes such as obesity. I am also part of ECLIPS (Elevated Childhood Lead Interagency Prevalence Study; UKRI, with Professor Jane Entwhistle), SHIELD (Studying Health Impacts of Early Life Diets; NIHR, with Professor Geraldine McNeill) and Toxic Metal Exposures and Ethnic and Social Health Inequalities (MRC, with Professor Seif Shaheen). Previous personal awards include a Daphne Jackson Fellowship (2012-2014) and a Wellcome Career Re-Entry Fellowship (2015-2019).
PEAR Study website: http://pearstudy.com/
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Improving the diet of pregnant women: a mixed methods study
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2020 to 31/01/2025
Publications
Selected publications
06/09/2013Environmental factors predicting blood lead levels in pregnant women in the UK: the ALSPAC study
PLoS ONE
Recent publications
24/02/2025Dietary and related data collected during pregnancy in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
Wellcome Open Research
Do children who were preschool picky eaters eat different foods at school lunch when aged 13 years than their non-picky peers?
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Seafood intake in children at age 7 years and neurodevelopmental outcomes in an observational cohort study (ALSPAC)
European Journal of Nutrition
Diet quality scores in childhood and arterial stiffness and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adolescence/early adulthood: findings from the ALSPAC cohort
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Adherence to the national guidance on foods and drinks to limit or avoid during pregnancy in England
Public Health Nutrition
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