About the Institute
150 Staff - 100 PhD Students - 4 Locations - 25 Laboratories
Our Business
The Institute is spread over the three campuses of Massey University; Palmerston North, Auckland (Albany) and Wellington. It works closely with food and health industries in New Zealand and overseas. It takes pride in its reputation as being a successful partner with industry in providing first-class science research and tertiary education
The Industry’s Institute
The global food and health industries are undergoing major changes as people increasingly view the interaction between food, nutrition and lifestyle as central to a long and healthy life. The resulting market-led development of innovative products and the advanced technologies required to make them, will depend more and more on the multidisciplinary application of scientific knowledge. Massey University's Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health assists industry and society to achieve better outcomes through applied and relevant scholarship.
Our Staff
The strength of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health lies in its outstanding complement of staff and students. Staff are recruited from all over the world, providing an international flavour and a refreshing degree of diversity in professional activities
Research Excellence
The Institute has a unique ability to integrate expertise across the entire food and health value chain: from "plough to plate to lifestyle". The Institute’s comprehensive multi-disciplinary teams offer research clients innovative cutting-edge research and development opportunities. These teams are an entree to the wider expertise and facilities of Massey University.
Knowledge Through Scholarship
The Institute plays a key role in creating, maintaining and disseminating knowledge and is a source of high-class graduates, who are regarded as creative independent thinkers and problem solvers. Teaching, learning and the creation of new knowledge are fundamental to the Institute’s scholarship and excellence. An ethos of creativity permeates the Institute at all levels and is the very core of what we are.
