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.
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Latest News Articles
The Global Staffroom Podcast: Food and/as social reproduction
29th May, 2020
Podcast: Monday 1 June, 12 noon BST With special guests: Angry Workers Collective, Rebecca O’Connell (Reader in the Sociology of Food and Families, UCL Institute of Education, Alex Colas (Professor of International Relations, Birkbeck) and Jason Edwards, Lecturer in Politics,..
Charles Dickens, seditionist for our times: online play featuring young people from our research
19th May, 2020
The experiences of some of the young people who are featured in our book Living Hand to Mouth: Children and food in low income families (Child Poverty Action Group, 2019) are included in a 50 minute one man show by..
We’re not ‘all in this together’: COVID-19 exposes stark realities of food insecurity
12th May, 2020
While slogans of solidarity – “We’re all in this together” – plaster social media, millions of households with children are experiencing coronavirus lockdowns further plagued by food insecurity. The global pandemic is both revealing and accentuating existing social and health..