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 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. Previous 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
08/01/2024Diet 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
Associations of childhood diet quality scores with arterial stiffness and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adolescence/early adulthood
British Journal of Nutrition
Environmental and genetic predictors of whole blood mercury and selenium concentrations in pregnant women in a UK birth cohort
Environmental Advances
The dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern in childhood in relation to cardiometabolic risk in adolescence and early adulthood in the ALSPAC birth cohort
Public Health Nutrition