Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Food and Nutrition: The Truth Behind Food Headlines
EIT Food and University of Reading
This course interpreted why the media is so interested in reporting about food & nutrition, why the 'advice' changes so rapidly and the part we play in that, as readers. By exploring the hierarchy of scientific evidence, it has provided skills to judge whether to believe a headline. This course has highlighted internal biases and provided insight into agendas which influence how scientific evidence is presented.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Maarten van der Kamp
Director of Education
EIT Food
Sarah Guo
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Interpret why the media is so interested in reporting about food & nutrition, why the 'advice' changes so rapidly and the part we play in that, as readers.
- Explore the hierarchy of scientific evidence and judge for yourself whether you believe an example headline.
- Assess the biases you bring to what you read and gain a perspective into journalists' agendas which influence how they present scientific evidence.
- Develop an action plan for precision farming.
- Interpret scientific terms and make sense of statistics related to food and nutrition
- Identify where to find reliable information about food and nutrition and use tools that help identify unreliable studies.
Syllabus
• How to analyse a headline by understanding the biases that we, as readers, bring to our understanding of food and nutrition stories.
• Become familiar with the journalist’s perspective, the agenda behind the story and the hooks used to make readers interested.
• Discover how to find out about the original science the story is based on and understand how to interpret the results of the research.
• Learn about the regulations surrounding food and nutrition and where to find reliable sources of information.
• Understand the processes of publishing scientific articles
• Use tools that help identify unreliable sources of information.
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Issued on 9th May 2024
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