Conference fees

The Finance Committee has recently agreed the Society should use £40,607 of its funds to subsidise the costs to members of attending the 2026 Congress.

The Finance Committee met on 2 December 2025 to complete the work on the draft 2026 budget for the Society. Part of the committee’s responsibilities is to establish the delegate fees for the Society’s Summer Congress, being held in Newcastle University in July 2026. The committee wishes to share the methodology it used to set the fees.

It is important to remember though…

We are very sad to announce the passing of one of our most distinguished Honorary Fellows - Professor Jo Hautvast.

Professor Hautvast studied both medicine and social anthropology at Radboud University in Nijmegen. After training in tropical medicine he worked for a period of three years (1967–70) as medical officer in charge of a 72-bed Igogwe mission hospital in the south-western highlands in Tanzania. There he was confronted with the serious nutritional health problems of the region’s people. When he returned to Radboud Medical School he became interested in nutrition sciences.…

With the introduction of the updated Society’s Supporter Policy in October 2023, the Society’s Trustees committed to an annual review of the Policy taking place each October. The Trustees completed their 2025 review at their recent 14th October meeting. This report outlines the findings of the annual review.

The Trustees are seeking applications for an Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nutrition (BJN), the Nutrition Society’s flagship journal. The BJN is an international, peer-reviewed, journal that publishes original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science.

The main focus of the journal is to increase knowledge in nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition. The BJN welcomes manuscripts that report studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body…

The Nutritional & Health-related Environmental Studies Section is excited to share its eNewsletter. 

In this issue:

• Invitation to participate in IAEA-organized symposium and lecture at the IUNS-ICN from 24-29 August 2025
• New training and education opportunities on stable isotope methods
• New Lancet publication on the need to update human energy requirements
• New results suggesting that dietary intake plays greater role than reduced energy expenditure in the elevated prevalence of obesity associated with economic…