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A Slice of Sensory
March 26, 2015The annual Sensory Science Group Conference will take place on 18th May at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. The day will provide a mix of presentations from top researchers in the field and explore how sensory and consumer research techniques are being applied to gain insight and understanding of consumer behaviours. Registration...
IFST Launches 2015 Student Travel Award
March 19, 2015The IFST Sensory Science Group Student Prize 2015 is now open for entries. Students can win £500 towards attending a conference with a food, consumer or sensory science theme.
Health, Nutrition and the Power of Taste
February 02, 2015In the UK, approximately 3 million people can be malnourished or at risk of malnutrition at any given time due to ageing or sickness. Oral Nutritional Supplements are a key tool in addressing the problem but how can we maximise compliance amongst patients so that they consume their supplements as prescribed and so gain the benefits
Christmas Jumpers and More
January 22, 2015Both the Nottingham and Reading teams participated 100% in Christmas Jumper Day on 12th December to raise money for Save the Children. Last year, Sensory Dimensions donated £11,500 to charities both local, across the UK and overseas. We are hoping to beat this in 2015 by our recently announced pledge that the Business will match any money...
January New Starters
January 21, 2015We welcomed three new starters in January. Maria Fernanda Páez joined us as Operations Manager for the Food and Beverage team in Nottingham. Maria has come all the way from Venezuela where she was working for Proctor & Gamble. Liz Hawkins has also joined the Nottingham team as a Project Manager in the Food and Beverage team. Liz joins us...
Nottingham serve Coffee & Cake for Macmillan
October 05, 2014Our Nottingham team really got behind supporting Macmillan's Biggest Coffee Morning on 26th September. Hundreds of our sensory panellists and employees of local businesses attended the event at our Food & Beverage Centre in Nottingham. As well as a huge range of cakes and the obligatory coffee, there was a BBQ serving burgers and hotdogs, a...
New Starter
October 02, 2014On 1st October, we welcomed Lauren Henry to our Reading team. Lauren joins us as a project manager after graduating from Oxford University with a neuroscience degree.
Food Matters Live
October 02, 2014We will be joining well known figures from the food and beverage industry at Food Matters Live, a new event being held between 18-20th November, ExCel, London. Food Matters Live is dedicated to food, health and nutrition. It will bring together the food and drink industry, retailers, food service providers, government, and those working in...
Rapid Methods Workshop
April 16, 2014Sensory Dimensions, Nottingham. The first of a new series of practical workshops, this one day event will introduce you to the theory and practice of the rapid descriptive methods – napping, flash and free choice profiling. Date and venue to be announced You will learn the benefits and disadvantages of each technique and through the...