This is the website for the Families and Food in Hard Times research project. The study looks into what young people and their families eat in Portugal, the UK and Norway, and how they manage in difficult economic times.
This book brings the latest research on food poverty together with the voices of children and young people experiencing food poverty first hand.
Find out more
Latest News Articles
Living Hand to Mouth: children and food in low income families – published today
2nd Apr, 2019
Over four million children in Britain are growing up in poverty, with many at risk of going without nutritious or adequate food. As poverty has risen, families with children are among the hardest hit. Based on the first-hand accounts of..
A proper meal? New blog post comparing free school meals in Portugal and the UK
14th Mar, 2019
If we had not included Portuguese young people in our cross national study, the inadequacies in the free school meal system in England might not have been quite so obvious. Read our new blog post for International School Meals Day..
Food and hard times in three European countries
11th Mar, 2019
New findings and panel discussion with Danny Dorling, Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Liz Dowler. Tuesday 30th April 2019, 5.15-8pm, University College London. Further details Having enough to eat of a decent quality and quantity has long been a central expectation of..
