Registration Committee

Irene is the Head of Performance Nutrition at the Sport Scotland Institute of Sport. She is an Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registered Dietitian and has been involved professionally in performance sport for over 24 years. She joined the Sport Scotland Institute of Sport as a Performance Dietitian in 2007 and now leads and manages the performance nutrition service across Scotland, while providing nutrition support to individuals and team athletes, and leading specific innovation projects within targeted sports. 

Irene has travelled nationally and internationally with a variety of Olympic and Commonwealth sports. She has worked through four Commonwealth and three Olympic cycles delivering support at London 2012 and more recently at the Goldcoast Commonwealth Games 2018. She has a passion for good food and empowering people to make sustainable food choices that support and maximize health and performance. 

Irene is current joint Vice-Chair of the SENR Board and is a SENR Practitioner Registrant. 

Ruth is a Dietitian registered with the HCPC. Her early career focused on clinical dietetics in the NHS. Having completed post-graduate education in the field of Performance Nutrition, she worked with several athletes from various sports in the Sports Institute Northern Ireland (SINI), before taking up a full-time position as the Performance Nutritionist with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) in 2006, working primarily with the Senior Men’s squad.

After 16 years of service as the Head of Nutrition with the IRFU, she retired from this position in 2022, having developed a nutrition team of 11 Performance Nutritionists across Elite Player Pathways and professional rugby programmes on the island of Ireland.

Arthur is an Assistant Lecturer and active researcher in Exercise Physiology in the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Science at SETU Waterford. He is also a performance nutritionist with Sports Ireland, supporting Rowing Ireland. He holds a PhD in bone health and body composition in Jockeys from SETU Waterford and a Masters in Sports Nutrition from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Arthur is a SENR registrant and Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) with extensive professional experience, including work with Leinster Rugby Academy, intercounty GAA, international rowing, and professional jockeys.

Eoghan received his BSc in Human Nutrition from University College Dublin and holds an MSc in Sport Nutrition from Liverpool John Moores University. Eoghan is also a fully registered member of the SENR.

Eoghan worked for a number of years in the UK as a performance nutritionist with Sport Wales Institute in Cardiff, supporting athletes from a range of sports including boxing, judo and Paralympic sports, aiming to prepare for Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games events. In 2022, he attended the Birmingham Commonwealth Games as HQ nutritionist with Team Wales.

Prior to this, he gained experience as academy performance nutritionist and nutrition intern with Sale Sharks Rugby and the RFU. Eoghan joined Leinster Rugby as lead performance nutritionist in August 2022.

Meghan is a Research Fellow in Sport Nutrition and Psychology at Leeds Beckett University and a Practitioner Registrant of the SENR. She is an experienced Sport and Exercise Nutritionist with the UK Sports Institute, where she has supported athletes across Olympic and Paralympic sports.

Her PhD applied behavioural science to understand the dietary behaviours of elite athletes, with the aim of advancing the professional practice of sport and exercise nutritionists. Meghan’s current research focuses on understanding and shaping the behaviours that influence athlete nutrition, sporting integrity, and the professional practice of athlete support personnel.

Her work seeks to make sport safer and fairer by improving dietary practices, embedding evidence-based behavioural strategies, and strengthening the systems that support athletes’ health, wellbeing, and holistic development.

Sinead is a SENR Practitioner Registrant. She runs her own sports nutrition practice, FeedFuelPerform, working across a range of sports including combat and other weight making sports, functional, and ultra-endurance disciplines. She is also the Performance Nutritionist with British Weightlifting.

Sinead was previously a Lecturer and Researcher in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at the University of Westminster, and continues to work as a Visiting Lecturer. She holds a PhD in Cell Growth and Metabolism from University College London, and a PgDip in Sport and Exercise Nutrition from the University of Westminster.

Georgina is a Performance Nutritionist and current PhD researcher with extensive experience working across professional football and rugby. Georgina received her BSc in Sports and Exercise Science and her MSc in Sports Nutrition from Loughborough University.

She started her career at Stoke City FC as Academy Nutritionist, combined with a full-time PhD through Sheffield Hallam University, investigating polyphenol intake in academy football players. She progressed to Club Nutritionist, supporting both the First Team and Academy Squads. Within that time she gained full registration status as a SENR Practitioner Registrant. Georgina then went on to become Lead Performance Nutritionist at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club where she paused her PhD to commit to a full-time role at the club.

Georgina continues to work with Leicester Tigers on a part-time basis, alongside completing her PhD and various consultancy roles including Oxford United FC.