Jane is Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University (previously Co-Director of the Ageing and Dementia Research Centre).

As Professor of Nutrition, Registered Nutritionist and Dietitian, her primary research interests are committed to key nutrition-related problems associated with ageing including dementia, frailty and malnutrition and led a range of studies working with collaborators in the UK and internationally.

She uses qualitative and quantitative methods and innovative approaches to find robust solutions centred on older people’s lives, intervening early with a particular focus on community working together with stakeholders from both the health and care sectors. She is currently leading NIHR funded projects using digital health coaching for people with frailty in Wessex and improving nutritional care at home for people with dementia working with home care provision.