Dr Sophia Amenyah

Assistant Professor

Department: Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation

Dr Sophia Amenyah is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, Assistant Professor in Nutrition and a Dunhill Medical Trust Research Fellow at Northumbria University, UK. Sophia is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in both biomedical and social sciences. She has methodological and expert skills in co-production, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (IDEA). As an early career researcher, she has an outstanding funding profile having secured over £756,927 for 7 (5 as PI) competitive research projects from prestigious funders including the Dunhill Medical Trust, the UKRI (BBSRC/MRC) Food4Years Network and Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) in just the past three years. In her previous postdoctoral role, she was the lead on the evaluation team of the European Development funded project, Adding to Social capital and individual Potential In disadvantaged REgions (ASPIRE) (https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/projects/interreg-channel-aspire-project/aspire-project-evaluation).

Sophia has a PhD in Nutrition and Genomics Medicine and is a Registered Nutritionist. She is committed to maximising the impacts of her research and has an established body of published work including 9 (7 first author, 2 corresponding author) peer reviewed full-text publications and 11 published abstracts in top-ranked nutrition and biosciences journals. Please find link of publications: Google Scholar

She is committed to including experts by experience and community development in research. Her research centres on co-production and the use of interdisciplinary methods to understand inequalities in ageing, the biological and social determinants of nutrition and to co-create community-based food models with underserved communities. Her key interests include ageing, community-based food models, personalised nutrition, nutrition assessment, community nutrition and public health nutrition policies. Her current projects include (www.bournemouth.ac.uk/lemonade; https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/projects/healthy-brain-healthy-life). Methodological expertise include mixed methods research, systematic reviews and evaluation, realist synthesis and evaluation, community-based participatory methods including Photovoice, community asset mapping and design of robust scientific research design and implementation using NIHR INCLUDE and MRC frameworks.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Co-production, Healthy ageing, nutrition & vascular health, nutrigenomics, global nutrition, nutrition assessment, Community nutrition, food & nutrition policies.

Key Publications

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‘Back Us and We’ll Back You’: A Photovoice Study Exploring the Impact of a Community-Based Food Model on the Health, Wellbeing and Social Connectedness of Older People, Amenyah, S., Benzimra, A., Fenge, L., Murphy, J., Devis-Rozental, C. May 2025, In: Current Developments in Nutrition
Fruit and vegetable intake in minority ethnic groups in the UK: analysis from ‘Understanding Society’ and UK Biobank, Shah, P., Demashkieh, M., Ellahi, B., Osei-Kwasi, H., Amenyah, S., Vijayakumaran, R., Murphy, J., Hardy, R. 27 Aug 2025, In: Public Health Nutrition
Impact of community-based food interventions on health, wellbeing, and social connectedness of older adults: A scoping review, Amenyah, S., Fenge, L., Devis-Rozental, C., Jeff, P., Benzimra, A., Murphy, J. 12 Sep 2025, In: Health and Social Care in the Community
Promoting lifestyle medicine research in Ghana: lessons learned from Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) Ghana hybrid workshop, Osei-Kwasi, H., Boateng, D., Zakariah-Akoto, S., Ojwang, A., Agbozo, F., Assasie, E., Addo, P., Blay Adjei, M., Mogre, V., Akparibo, R., Aryeetey, R., Levy, A., Abu, B., Amenyah, S., Obiri, D., Kushitor, S., Varela-Silva, M., Griffiths, P., Daley, A. 3 Sep 2025, In: Frontiers in Public Health