Beyond Laboratory Walls: The Rewards and Challenges of Bringing Product Development into the Community

Abstract

In autumn 2015, as a final year undergraduate of Nutraceuticals for Health and Nutrition in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in Dublin, Ireland, I was met with great curiosity upon learning about the option of completing my undergraduate final year, capstone research thesis through community-based research (CBR). It was something I had never heard of before and felt it would be an interesting way of both gaining valuable real-life experience through collaborative methods while completing a vital component of my degree.