Barbara is a Registered Nutritionist and food safety consultant driving and delivering food safety and nutrition strategy for food businesses.

Her leadership roles have included Co-Chairman of the Oxford Farming Conference and representing the Private Sector Mechanism in interventions at the UN Committee for Food Security. She is a Fellow and committee member of IFST, a trustee of the Nutrition Society and a Governor of Harper Adams University.

In 2017, Barbara was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship; in 2019, she was awarded an MBE her 'Services to Food Nutrition’.

Barbara is currently researching diets to protect health of older adults in a doctoral training programme at the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast.