Alice Elizabeth Benskin is a registered nutritionist with Association for Nutrition in the domain of Nutrition Science. She has a BSc in Nutrition Science and MSc in Personalised Nutrition, and has worked over the past 10 years in the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education and research. Most recently she was at University of Oxford, where she did research investigating breast and bottle feeding nutrition and nociception in neonates with a neonatal neuroscience team at the John Radcliffe Hospital. She is currently an MSc Psychology student at University of Wolverhampton.
Benskin has a keen interest and passion for research in the area of nutritional psychiatry, and is advocating for the field of nutritional psychotraumatology, which explores the connections between nutrition, mechanisms of chronic stress, acute and complex trauma and biohorology. Aside from Nutritank, she works in a freelance capacity as a Nutritional Scientist, doing consultancy work, as well as volunteering in a variety of roles for not-for-profits and charities. Overall, her ambition is to empower others to live healthier lives using nutrition and lifestyle strategies, contribute to the field of nutritional psychiatry as a researcher, and see more women empowered to pursue careers in research and education in the field of nutritional science.