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Dr Penny Rumbold

Associate Professor

Department: Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation

Dr Penny Rumbold is Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Sport, Exercise and Nutrition and a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at ϲ. Teaching interests lie primarily in nutritional and physiological aspects of sport, exercise and health, and also paediatric exercise physiology and appetite regulation. Penny is also active in the provision of nutritional and physical activity education within the national school curriculum and works proactively to develop collaborative relationships with local primary and secondary schools as exemplified here:

  • 2012: Rumbold, P.L.S. & Turner, L. Awarded £2,992 from the Public Engagement Fund at ϲ to support a Primary School-University Partnership project - ‘Being a sport and exercise scientist: Discovering a healthier you’.
Penny Rumbold

Campus Address

City Campus; Room 230 Northumberland Building



Dr Penny Rumbold is an Associate Professor in Exercise Nutrition in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at ϲ. Research and teaching interests lie primarily in the promotion of nutritional strategies to improve metabolic health in both adult and paediatric populations. Through her PhD work Penny focused on energy and appetite regulation in young athletes, specifically exploring the appetite and energy intake responses to netball-specific exercise in adolescent girls, under ‘free-living’ conditions. Since completing her PhD in 2010, Penny has been successful in gaining research funding from various industry partners (Dairy Council; Nourishmenow; Cool Milk) to fund one of her research interests focussed around the influence of milk and other dairy products on energy and appetite regulation in females, but also primarily in paediatric populations. Additional research interests also include the influence of active video games on appetite and energy intake in paediatric populations. Most recently Penny has been working collaboratively with local football academies (NUFC) to explore the implementation of nutritional interventions for supporting metabolic health in adolescent-academy football players. Currently this work involves profiling various sources of stress (e.g. high intensity training loads; growth and maturation; severe energy deficits) using measures of thyroid status, that adolescent-academy footballers are exposed to, which may potentially be promoting poor metabolic health. The findings of the profiling exercise will then inform acute and chronic nutritional interventions and educational strategies to facilitate restoration and maintenance of good nutritional practices and metabolic health in adolescent-academy footballers. Penny also works proactively to develop collaborative relationships with local primary and secondary schools to advise on nutritional practices to promote health in young people.

  • Marc Briggs Investigating the Dietary Habits of Adolescent Academy Soccer Players Start Date: 27/09/2016 End Date: 15/06/2017
  • Ruth Boldon Nutritional Interventions for Thyroid Function in Adolescent Academy Footballers Start Date: 05/02/2020 End Date: 28/09/2021
  • Susan Allsop Acute Appetite, Energy Intake and Physical Activity Levels of 8 to 11 Year-Old Boys in Response to Active Video Gaming Start Date: 13/11/2014 End Date: 05/05/2016
  • Victoria Duke Nutritional interventions to support thyroid function in female high intensity functional training (HIFT) athletes: a mixed methods exploration. Start Date: 01/03/2024
  • Catrin Roberts Moo’ving towards better hydration and cognition in school children: Applying novel neuroimaging technology to determine a neurophysiological basis. Start Date: 01/10/2022
  • Graham Mytton Pacing Strategies in Competitive Middle Distance Events Start Date: 09/02/2015 End Date: 11/11/2016
  • Dean Allerton Postprandial Metabolic and Appetite Responses Following Whey Protein Supplementation at Breakfast Start Date: 16/12/2015 End Date: 20/04/2017
  • Benjamin Green Appetite and Metabolic Responses to Acute and Moderate-Term Dairy Snack Consumption in Young People Start Date: 01/05/2012 End Date: 25/02/2016
  • Philip Stead . Start Date: 01/10/2015 End Date: 09/09/2021

  • Sport PhD July 05 2010
  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016
  • Information not provided Nutrition Society (NS) 2010
  • Information not provided Institute for Learning (IFL) 2010
  • Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Register SENr


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