Research Centres
In New Zealand's thriving scientific communities the Institute of Food Nutrition and Human Health works closely with other institutes, universities and research centres to produce valuable scientific research. By working together the centres are able to foster scientific progression and take advantage of the different skills and backgrounds of the different research institutions.
New Zealand Life Cycle Management Centre
The New Zealand Life Cycle Management Centre (NZLCM) is a collaboration between Massey University, AgResearch, Landcare Research, Plant & Food Research and Scion to build capability in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Management (LCM). LCA is an approach for assessing the environmental impacts of products and services from extraction of raw materials, through manufacture, distribution, use and on to final waste management.
LCM is concerned with realising more sustainable products and services through better management of these life cycle impacts. The Centre partners are working together to provide education, training and research in LCA and LCM, and the Centre acts as a focal point to facilitate collaboration more widely across organisations, industry and government.
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Riddet Institute
The Riddet Institute is one of only seven government funded Centres of Research Excellence undertaking discovery-based scientific research into foods and human nutrition, particularly functional foods and ‘future foods’ that address obesity and the metabolic syndrome.
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Roof Water Research Centre
The aims of the Roof Water Research Centre is to generate, integrate, and disseminate information through research, education, and outreach activities that address safe and sustainable rainwater harvesting practices.
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Centre for Postharvest and Refrigeration Research
The Centre for Postharvest and Refrigeration Research at Massey University was established in recognition of the inter-disciplinary nature of the postharvest sector. Efficient management of the process of storing, transporting and marketing perishable goods requires the combined efforts of biologists, technologists, engineers, supply chain analysts and marketers.
The mission of the Centre is to foster development of a dynamic and innovative group involved in Postharvest and Refrigeration research, teaching and extension, capable of providing excellent scientific outputs to sponsors and exposing students to world class research activity and philosophy.
Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre
The Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre (AWSBC) gathers individuals from across and beyond the University into multidisciplinary teams for particular welfare-related projects.
Expertise includes scientific, veterinary, management, practical, economic, legal, regulatory, societal, cultural, ethical and emergency response aspects of animal welfare in numerous areas of human-animal interaction such as animal use in research, testing and teaching, and on farms, in the home, for sport, recreation and entertainment, in service roles, in the wild and in other arenas.
In 2007, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) formally adopted the AWSBC (Massey) as its original Collaborating Centre for Animal Welfare Science and Bioethical Analysis. In 2009 OIE established a novel multi-group OIE Collaborating Centre of the same name. This centre includes the Massey group, one other in New Zealand and three in Australia (see website), and is preeminent among OIE Collaborating Centres in its role of providing expert scientific, bioethical and advisory support for the OIE’s global animal welfare initiative which began in 2001.
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Vitamin D Research Centre
The aim of the Vitamin D Research Centre at Massey University is to provide an umbrella for the diverse range of vitamin D research interests of the scientists within the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at both Albany and Manawatu Campuses.
From a Public Health perspective, members of the Vitamin D Research Centre are motivated to improve the status of those population groups who are demonstrably at risk of vitamin D deficiency, and the associated negative health consequences.
