Bells Hann is a 3rd year BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Health student at the University of Roehampton, London, a course accredited with the Association for Nutrition. She has been shortlisted for the 2024 Complete Nutrition (CN) Award for Student of the Year. The CN awards recognise the achievements of those whose work has made a significant difference in the field of nutrition and dietetics. Alongside her studies, Bells organises many events and volunteers with many external organisations. She set up and led the Students’ Union’s Nutrition & Health Society, who regularly host cooking workshops and organise guest speaker events.
She was also a guest on Nualtra’s The Dietitian Café RD2B podcast discussing how to set up and run a society. She was also invited to be a panelist for MyNutriWeb Book Club to discuss Kimberley Wilson’s book ‘Unprocessed’ which led to her becoming the Co-Chair of Book Club.
She is currently working as an intern at HRS Communications in their marketing and sales team where she writes evidence-based nutrition articles for their website. She has written about many different topics including advertisement and promotion of high fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS) products and malnutrition. She has a keen interest in research. Last summer, she was awarded the Nutrition Society Summer Studentship to carry out a research project investigating the gut microbiome and the vegan diet; presenting her findings at the Nutrition Futures Conference in Glasgow.
She also volunteers as the Student Section Representative for the UK Nutrition Society where she attends board meetings to represent student members and works alongside other volunteers on group projects. Most recently, the student section planned a careers panel at University College London (UCL) that was attended by over 100 students and was a remarkable success.
Dr Sue Reeves, who teaches on the programme, said: “Given her endless energy and devotion to the promotion of evidenced based nutrition, she is a truly inspirational student”.
If you would like to vote for Bells, you can do so here: https://nutrition2me.com/cn-awards/voting/
Roehampton are ranked the 6th University in London for Nutrition and Health (Complete University Guide 2023), visit the BSc Nutrition and Health course page.