Svetlana Rodgers
Professor – School of Service Management
University of Brighton, U.K

Dr Svetlana Rodgers is a newly arrived Professor of Food, Hospitality and Culinary Arts at the School of Service Management University of Brighton. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management & Food Production in Food Services, Bachelor of Science in Food Technology, Master’s of Applied Science in Food Science & Nutrition and PhD from the University of Western Sydney (Australia). She developed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Food Service Operations) degree, first of its kind in Australia, and a number of subjects on food service systems for hospitality management programs at the University of Western Sydney.

Whilst in Australia, she invented a novel bio-preservation technique using protective cultures for cook-chill meals. Later, at the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management (U.S.) she pioneered the incorporation of probiotic bacteria into restaurant meals. In the past, she held a number of executive positions in hospitality industry including an administrator of restaurants on a board of a cruise ship with the Black Sea Shipping Company (Ukraine) and adviser to health services on food safety and quality issues with the New South Wales Health Department (Sydney, Australia).