Food Production Management University of Nottingham

Overview

At Food Production Management programme offered by University of Nottingham, you will acquire the knowledge associated with food processing, quality assurance and new product development. It also develops essential management techniques including supply chain planning and quality management.

Factory visits, case studies and guest speakers from industry will give you plenty of industry exposure throughout the year. Tackle the real-life industry problems in the problem-based learning module. The briefs from industry will be used for a new product development project. You will do the practical in the Food Processing Facility which hosts a wide range of commercial scale food production and testing equipment.

There is an opportunity to complete your research project in collaboration with the food industry. Projects can be factory, laboratory or literature based. Some students will have the opportunity to complete their project at the industry partner's facilities. 

Career opportunities:

Initial roles the students have gone on to do include:

• Materials technologist

• Specifications or systems technologist

• New product development

• Food processing technologist

• Quality control or analysis technologist

• Sensory technologist

• Laboratory technologist

• Retail technologist

Some of the students have gone to do graduate schemes in the food industry, while some have gone on to further study at PhD level.