Food Quality and Health - Sustaining the Future

由于人口增长、饮食变化和日益富裕，对粮食的需求正在发生变化。随着水和其他自然资源的日益稀缺以及对土地使用的竞争加剧，粮食生产正面临越来越大的压力。气候变化将改变生产模式，影响供应的可靠性。要在快速变化的世界中适应这些挑战，确保可持续地供应充足、负担得起、有营养和安全的食品，就需要采取多方面和跨学科的方法，重新连接食物链。食品质量与健康ATP将提高国家在支持食品安全的知识和技能方面的能力，确保英国的技能基础拥有适当的临界质量和专业研究专长，以应对挑战。英国食品制造业雇佣了41万人，另有250万人从事食品零售和餐饮，53.1万人从事农业和园艺生产。因此，农业食品部门对英国的健康和财富至关重要：因此，我们的合作伙伴关系旨在确保该行业雇用并由对整个食品链面临的食品安全复杂问题有全面了解的个人领导。食品质量与健康ATP汇集了从生产到消费的食物链，来自学术界和工业界的领先专家，专注于为食品和生产行业提供高质量和现实世界相关的培训。咨询显示，需要一种“无边界”的培训方法，通过创建一个协作网络来重新连接分散的农业食品部门，从而促进供应链中不同点的学习整合。我们的合作伙伴关系将确保培训和教育高素质的个人，他们有能力在可持续食品质量和健康的各个方面领导英国食品行业的企业，从而解决与英国及其他国家的食品安全相关的政府、消费者和社会关注的关键因素。该计划将提供多个级别的培训，以适应食品行业不同员工的不同需求。在最高水平的专业博士培训中，高素质的人才骨干将有潜力使英国巩固其在国际竞争力和就业方面的实力。这些人将接受自我指导的高级研究培训，这将扩大英国食品行业的创新能力和思想领导力。培训模块将被开发，可以作为独立的持续专业进修课程，如果有需要，可以逐步发展为研究生证书/文凭或硕士。在每种情况下，培训的目的都是加速职业生涯早期至中期专业人员的发展，并支持该行业发展其技能基础。我们的愿景是一个具有灵活结构的学习框架，包括行业主导的CPD元素，教学模块，积极的研究和在工作场所学习，以提供培训。专业博士学位是食品和生产行业的创新“商业科学”研究学位，将模块化教学组件与行业研究和专业实践组合在一起。这些模块将由来自核心交付合作伙伴（雷丁大学、伯明翰大学、洛桑研究中心和莱瑟黑德食品研究中心）的专家提供，并由一系列副合作伙伴提供专家贡献。如果参与者想要获得正式的硕士学位资格，这些将通过核心大学进行认证。这种灵活和协作培训的新方法将确保专业知识和卓越研究最好地应用于参与者的需求，并将协同整个食物链的联系，以鼓励知识交流。

Demand for food is changing because of population growth, changing diets and increasing affluence. Food production is under increasing pressure as water and other natural resources become scarcer and competition for the use of land rises. Climate change will alter patterns of production and affect the reliability of supply. Adapting to these challenges to ensure the sustainable supply of sufficient, affordable, nutritious and safe food in a rapidly changing world will require a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary approach that reconnects the food chain. The Food Quality & Health ATP will boost the national capacity in the knowledge and skills that underpin food security, ensuring the UK skills base has the appropriate critical mass and specialist research expertise to meet the challenges. The UK food manufacturing sector employs 410,000 people with a further 2.5 million employed in food retail and catering and 531,000 in agricultural and horticultural production. The agri-food sector is therefore vital to UK health and wealth: hence our partnership aims to ensure the industry employs and is led by individuals with a comprehensive understanding of the complex issues of food security that face the whole food chain. The Food Quality & Health ATP brings together leading experts working on the food chain from production to consumption, from academia and industry, focused on delivering high quality and real-world relevant training for the food and production industries. Consultation has revealed the need for a 'without boundaries' approach to training, that facilitates integration of learning from different points in the supply chain by creating a collaborative network to reconnect the fragmented agri-food sector. Our partnership will ensure the training and education of highly qualified individuals capable of leading businesses in the UK food industry on all aspects of sustainable food quality and health, thus addressing key elements of government, consumer and societal concern associated with food security in the UK and beyond. The programme will deliver training at a number of levels to suit the varying demands of the diverse employees in the food industry. At the highest level of training, the Professional Doctorate, a cadre of high calibre individuals will have the potential to enable the UK to consolidate its strength in terms of international competitiveness and employment. These individuals will be trained in conducting self-directed advanced research that will extend the capacity for innovation and thought leadership of the UK food industry. Training modules will be developed that can be taken as standalone CPD courses and, if desired progressively built towards Postgraduate Certificates/Diplomas or Masters. In each case the training will be designed to accelerate the development of early to mid career professionals and support the industry in developing its skills base. Our vision is a learning framework with a flexible structure that includes industry led elements of CPD, taught modules, active research, and learning in the workplace to deliver training. The Professional Doctorate is an innovative 'science in business' research degree for the food and production industries that brings together modular taught components with a portfolio of industry research and professional practice. The modules will be delivered by experts from across the core delivery partners (University of Reading, University of Birmingham, Rothamsted Research and Leatherhead Food Research) with specialist contributions from a range of Associate Partners. Where participants want to work towards formal Masters level qualifications, these will be accredited via the core Universities. This new approach to flexible and collaborative training will ensure that the expertise and research excellence is best applied to the needs of participants and will synergise connections across the food chain to encourage knowledge exchange.