Alice Elizabeth Benskin is a registered nutritionist (AfN) with over a decade of experience across the food industry, nutrition education, research, and public health. She holds a BSc in Nutrition Science and an MSc in Personalised Nutrition, and recently completed an MSc in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton. She is currently training to be an NHS dietitian.

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.