SENSE members, Jennette Higgs and Kathryn Styles have successfully published their work on effective risk-reducing allergy management in secondary schools in Allergy, the official journal of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI).  This is the culmination of a four-year, multidisciplinary team project, working with allergy experts and a series of case study schools. Adopting a participatory action research model enabled development and repeat modification and testing of a process toolkit to support schools in establishing whole school allergy aware procedures and practices.

The final project stages included conversion of the toolkit for access via an online portal, with training and handover of all the materials to Allergy UK, who are now driving the programme through UK secondary schools. Jennette project managed the work from inception and Kathryn was involved in the project development, including standardizing toolkit materials and supporting schools during remote monitoring.

The open access paper is now available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/all.14871

To cite paper: Higgs J, Styles K, Bowyer S, Warner A, Dunn Galvin A. Dissemination of EAACI food allergy guidelines using a flexible, practical, whole school allergy awareness toolkit.

Allergy. 2021;00:1–10.  https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14871

Link to Allergy UK: https://www.allergyuk.org/information-and-advice/for-schools/whole-school-allergy-awareness-management

DATE: June 2020

Dr Laura Wyness received the The Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) 30^th Anniversary Award of Freelance Nutritionist of the Year.

Dr Wyness was also shortlisted in the CWT Media Food Campaigner of the Year category as part of the @AfNutr team who set up a monthly Twitter chat to support Nutritionists registered with the AfN (Association for Nutrition).

See CWT’s interview with Dr Wyness for more insight into her career and how she achieved this award:

https://www.cwt.org.uk/interview-with-freelance-nutritionist-of-the-year-dr-laura-wyness/

DATE: 12^th November 2019

Margaret has been a member of the Society since 1973 and was Hon Sec from 1984 to 1988.

Achievement Date: 2/12/19

For further information: https://www.nutritionsociety.org/announcement/new-honorary-fellows-announced

SENSE member Barbara Bray received an MBE for services to food and nutrition in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2019. She is currently a director of the Oxford Farming Conference (www.ofc.org.uk) and sits on committees for both the Institute of Food Science and Technology and The Nutrition Society’s Training Academy.  Barbara, who studied vegetable production for specific nutritional needs as part of her Nuffield Farming Scholarship, speaks at food and agriculture events and has recently contributed to debates at the UN Committee for Food Security in Rome on Youth and Women in Agriculture. Barbara is also Joint Programmes Organiser for SENSE.

“For anyone with a passion for food and farming, the ability to work with a range of people, sharing knowledge and ideas, is such an important skill,” says Barbara. “I have found the agri-food sector a great space to work in as a black British scientist and to lead real positive change. I’m delighted to receive this award and look forward to many more years of educating people about food and nutrition, supporting women in their early careers in the agri-food sector and being a role model for the next generation of black British scientists.”

From food technology, to agriculture (postharvest technologies specialising in tropical crops); to human nutrition; to Nuffield Scholar travelling the world to investigate vegetable technologies among other things – Barbara is now meetings secretary at SENSE and still travelling to exotic places with her work! To read how, see Ursula Arens’ Face to Face article in NHD (see page 41): https://issuu.com/nhpublishingltd/docs/issue_135_digital?e=14357770/62067336

Susan Church is perhaps best known in the nutrition world as the consistent name appearing as a co-author on editions of McCance and Widdowson’s (M&W) The Composition of Foods going back as far as 2002!

A food composition expert and now trainer on nutrition analysis as well as accomplished nutrition freelancer, you can read all about Susan’s career in another of Ursula Arens’ Face to Face article in NHD (see page 8): https://issuu.com/nhpublishingltd/docs/issue_128_digital?e=14357770/53927515D

Margaret has so many achievements as a result of her varied and distinguished career to date, having worked for the MRC, The Consumer’s Association, BNF, Good Housekeeping Institute, held a string of honorary positions and is currently President of the Association for Nutrition. To read more about Margaret, see fellow Sense member, Ursula Arens’ illuminating Face to Face article in NHD (see page 44): https://issuu.com/nhpublishingltd/docs/issue_140_digital?e=14357770/66303822

SENSE’s founder and chair, Dr Margaret Ashwell OBE was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science for services to nutrition by the University of Westminster in 2018. The award was made at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Margaret was delighted the day coincided with the day the RAF had their Centenary flypast up the Thames and so she and her guests got a superb view from the RFH balcony.

Margaret has so many achievements as a result of her varied and distinguished career to date, having worked for the MRC, The Consumer’s Association, BNF, Good Housekeeping Institute, held a string of honorary positions and is currently President of the Association for Nutrition. To read more about Margaret, see fellow Sense member, Ursula Arens’ illuminating Face to Face article in NHD (see page 44): https://issuu.com/nhpublishingltd/docs/issue_140_digital?e=14357770/66303822

Ms Fiona Wilcock is a contributory author to the book “The Day-by-Day Pregnancy Book” which has been published by Dorling Kindersley (D&K). She is the author on the nutrition and food content of the book and has provided comment on any dietary related material. The book provides a comprehensive look at every week of pregnancy, from early foetal development to how hormones prepare you for birth. The book also breaks down the 12 hours post delivery with an hour-by-hour account and the day-by-day format for the first two weeks of life with a newborn baby.

Read more: https://www.dk.com/uk/9780241312810-the-day-by-day-pregnancy-book

Dr Michele Sadler has authored a review “Dried Fruit and Dental Health” which was published online in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition on 14th July 2016. Classed as ‘Gap Bridging Research’ the paper reviews existing studies that have investigated the effect of dried fruit on dental health, and considers new research that is needed to increase scientific knowledge in this area. The review highlights the paucity of currently available data and the poor quality of the existing research, and concludes that it is premature to give evidence-based advice on the unsuitability of dried fruits as a snack on the basis of dental health outcomes.

Dried fruit and dental health
Michele Jeanne Sadler
To cite this article: Michele Jeanne Sadler (2016): Dried and dental health, International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, DOI:
10.1080/09637486.2016.1207061
To link to this article: //dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637486.2016.1207061