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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Amy Burns graduated with a BSc in Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork before completing a PhD in biomedical sciences at Ulster University in 2001.In 2001 Amy joined the Ulster Business School and is now Course Director for the BSc Consumer Management and Food Innovation programme and Director of the Food and Consumer Testing Suite (FACTS). She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Amy has considerable experience of working with private companies in Northern Ireland, other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and has made use of Invest NI and Enterprise Ireland funding to conduct research which has enabled Ireland-based companies to make improvements in production, promotion, market estimation and sales.Her particular areas of expertise include product innovation and new product development, nutritional evaluation, the sensory evaluation of food and drink products and both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She has published in a variety of prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has published a monograph entitled Controlling Appetite in 2009.Amy is one of 10 members of the Sensory Network Ireland Group that is promoting integration and ensuring sustainability for all sensory science activities on the island of Ireland and abroad.Recent research grants in the area of food include an investigation into the balance of healthy versus less healthy food promotions among Northern Ireland food retailers (Food Standards Agency) and the balance of healthy versus less-healthy food promotions among Republic of Ireland food retailers (safefood).
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Research output
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What’s on offer? The types of food and drink on price promotion in retail outlets in the Republic of Ireland
Furey, S., Mc Laughlin, C., Hollywood, L. E., Burns, A., McMahon-Beattie, U., Price, RK., Humphreys, P., McCarthy, M., Collins, A., Raats, M., Tatlow-Golden, M., Dean, M. & Murrin, C., 17 Jan 2019, Cork: Safefood. 94 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
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Let’s talk promotional offers: shoppers discourse on the influence of offers available in grocery stores.
Hollywood, L. E., Mc Laughlin, C., Furey, S., McMahon-Beattie, U., Burns, A. & Price, RK., Jul 2018, EIRASS conference, Madeira, 16 – 19th July 2018. Madeira, 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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An investigation into the prevalence and people’s experience of ‘food poverty’ within a region of Northern Ireland: Secondary analysis of local authority data
Furey, S., McLaughlin, C., Burns, A., Hollywood, L. & Mahon, P., 22 Feb 2017, (Accepted/In press) Unknown Host Publication. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Consumers’ promotional buying decisions around healthy food: An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
McLaughlin, C., Furey, S., Hollywood, L., McMahon-Beattie, U., Burns, A., Price, R. K., Humphreys, P., Dean, M., Raats, M., McCarthy, M., Collins, A., Tatlow-Golden, M. & Murrin, C., 22 Feb 2017, (Accepted/In press) Unknown Host Publication. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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HEALTHY FOOD ENVIRONMENTS: ASSESSING THE HEALTHINESS OF FOOD RETAIL PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
Hollywood, L. E., Furey, S., McMahon-Beattie, U., Burns, A. & Price, RK., 23 Nov 2017, International Research Conference on Business Management (IRCBM). 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Prizes
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An Exhibition: Our Food. Cooking and recipes of Ulster. Then and Now.
Burns, Amy (Recipient), Furey, Sinead (Recipient), Surgenor, Dawn (Recipient), Purkis, Harriet (Recipient) & Carruthers, Clare (Recipient), 20 Jan 2019
Prize: Honorary award
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Irish Times Education Awards
Burns, Amy (Recipient) & Hollywood, Lynsey Elizabeth (Recipient), 21 Feb 2019
Prize
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Making sense form your senses
Amy Burns (Speaker)
11 Jan 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Understanding Sensory Science
Amy Burns (Speaker)
24 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Waterford Institute of Technology
Amy Burns (Visiting researcher)
1 Dec 2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Coleraine Borough Council (External organisation)
Amy Burns (Chair)
1 Aug 2015Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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University of Malta
Amy Burns (Visiting researcher)
1 May 2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
Press / Media
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Success for FACTS at Ulster University
Amy Burns, Lynsey Elizabeth Hollywood & U McMahon-Beattie,
1/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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On the hunt for NI locavores at Balmoral
Lynsey Elizabeth Hollywood & Amy Burns
9/05/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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