The British Feeding and Drinking Group Annual Meeting 50th Anniversary 23 – 24 April 2026

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speakers for the conference will be; Assistant Professor Keri McCrickerd and Professor Remco Havermans.

Dr Keri McCrickerd: Dr Keri McCrickerd is Deputy Director at the Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Human Development and Potential, A*STAR. Her work focuses on shaping early life environments that promote children’s health and holistic development across the contexts in which they live, learn, and grow. Drawing on behavioural and implementation science, she leads the development and implementation of initiatives that translate evidence into meaningful change in policy, practice, and community settings. 

Prof Remco Havermans: Remco was born in 1974, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He studied psychology at Radboud University (Nijmegen), researching context specificity of conditioned appetitive responses in rats during his final internship at the department of comparative and physiological psychology. He obtained his PhD at Maastricht University, studying the Pavlovian nature of human appetite and substance use, supervised by Anita Jansen. Since 2015, Remco works at Maastricht University Campus Venlo where he started his own research group examining the interplay between flavour perception and eating behaviour. Remco’s research efforts, since moving to Campus Venlo, have meandered between examining sensory-specific satiation, chemotherapy induced taste aberrations, public acceptance of health nudges, personalized gastronomy, hospital food waste management, consumer perception of meat alternatives, children’s vegetable acceptance, nutrition education, efficacy of front of pack nutrition labels, children led food innovation, the monitoring of food allergy risk, childhood disorders of gut-brain interaction, food neophobia in older individuals, and reasons for supplement use among recreational half marathoners. Currently, his research focusses on the broader question how to promote a sustainable nutrition transition.