Emily Burton

Professor in Sustainable Food Production, at Nottingham Trent University

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Emily Burton is a Director of the Safety and Sustainability Strategic Research Theme and Professor of Sustainable Food Production who leads the University’s poultry nutrition research team. She undertakes a blend of teaching, research and advisory roles relating to the safety and sustainabilty of food systems

Prof Burton gained a BSc in Animal Physiology and Nutrition from the University of Leeds and a PhD in the nutritional value of soya beans for broiler chicks from the University of Nottingham. She spent seven years as a post-doctoral researcher mainly focusing on feed quality and exogenous enzyme effects on broiler performance, but also briefly investigating the capacity of fibrolytic enzymes to improve forage digestion in dairy cows.

After a spending two years as the companion bird nutritionist for Mars at their Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, Dr Burton established a new poultry research unit at Nottingham Trent University in 2009.