Andrea is subject lead for sport and exercise nutrition at Ulster University where she combines learning and teaching in sports nutrition with academic research in exercise physiology and applied sports nutrition. She is a first-class human nutrition graduate, subsequent to which, she completed a PhD in the area of exercise physiology examining the effects of physical activity and antioxidant supplementation.

Andrea continues to be actively involved in sports nutrition education within the wider sports nutrition profession and liaises with several governing bodies including the Irish Football Association and the Lawn Tennis Association with regards to sports nutrition education for coaches and those involved with supporting athletes in practice.

A senior fellow of the HEA, Andrea has a wealth of teaching experience having led the development of many programmes both nationally and internationally from undergraduate through to postgraduate level. She currently focuses her teaching on the UG and MSc in Sport & Exercise Nutrition at Ulster and in 2020 she launched the MSc programme she created in Hong Kong. Having led programme development within Ulster, Andrea is the lead for securing programme accreditation with SENR, which the MSc course at Ulster has held since 2015.

Andrea is a course assessor for undergraduate and postgraduate courses with SENR responsible for setting, assessing and advising institutions on standards for S&EN courses. She has been an Academic Associate with the Register since 2016 and has recently been invited to join the SENr board.