Dr Richard Webb
SUBJECT LEAD AND SENIOR LECTURER IN CLINICAL NUT
Nutrition and Food Science
0151 291 3177
webbr1@hope.ac.uk
After achieving a first-class degree in Food and Nutrition I was fortunate enough to secure a PhD studentship at Liverpool John Moores University, in collaboration with the Royal Liverpool Hospital and Northumbria University. My PhD focused upon the eating behaviours, quality of life and cardiometabolic risks of adult patients with Type 1 diabetes using continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy. During this study I became fascinated by lipid and lipoprotein metabolism and its important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. After successfully completing my PhD I performed a short postdoctoral project to adapt an existing laboratory method for the separation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles using salt-based density gradient ultracentrifugation for use with equipment housed at the university. Immediately after this I began a second postdoctoral study funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This two-year project built upon the collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University and Northumbria University and the aim was to better understand the molecular composition of LDL particles using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS) and to determine if the ultracentrifugation methods used for their separation were disrupting the associated molecules in any way.
Upon the completion of this project I then moved to Liverpool Hope University where I accepted a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position and have since worked in Lecturer and Senior Lecturer roles, and more recently have been the Subject Lead for the Nutrition courses at the institute. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am also currently involved in several ongoing research projects to better understand, prevent, and treat cardiometabolic illness in a range of diverse and often under-represented populations, such as female athletes in a state of low energy availability, bodybuilders using anabolic steroids, and Qatari nationals.