Would you like to present your research at the Summer Meeting? Then enter the Postgraduate Competition

Each year at the Summer Conference, we invite PhD students to submit an abstract for the Postgraduate Competition.  Winners are invited to present their research to the audience in the main lecture theatre as well as having their work published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (PNS) journal. We asked 2015 winner, David John Clayton, about his experience presenting his research on whether dietary energy restriction induced compensatory alterations in appetite, energy intake and metabolism. What encouraged you to submit  your research for the postgraduate competition?I attended the 2013 Nutrition Society Summer meeting in Newcastle when I was in the first year of my PhD and remember the Postgraduate Competition Winners’ presentations were some of my highlights from this meeting. I was impressed with how the Nutrition Society provided such an outstanding platform for young researchers to present their work, and I thought the students’ presentations were excellent. I remember thinking that I would love to have the opportunity to do this myself in the future. After discussing this with my supervisor, he suggested that I should aim to submit my research for the Nutrition Society Postgraduate Competition in the third year of my PhD. When it came to applying for the competition I was very busy with my PhD work. However, few conferences provide such an excellent chance for postgraduate students to present their work as part of the main conference programme. Therefore, I ...
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