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.. Read More
Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food.. Read More
Our opinion piece in BMJ Open (January 29, 2021) argues that young people growing up in poverty in the UK are at risk of becoming a ‘lost generation’. While the.. Read More
Footballer and food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford has rebuked Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake on Twitter for suggesting that parents who need help to feed their children are failing in their responsibilities. Children.. Read More
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.. Read More
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).. Read More
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.. Read More
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 More
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.. Read More
Público, one of the leading Portuguese newspapers, published an article on the Families and Food in Hard Times research project last Tuesday, as part of a series on the occasion.. Read More
The end of the summer holidays may offer some respite for children experiencing holiday hunger. But as Rebecca O’Connell and her team explain, food poverty is a problem all year.. Read More
The dramatic rise in food banks has driven food poverty into Britain’s public consciousness. But our new article finds that the consequences for families with children rarely hit the headlines.. Read More
Coedited by Wendy Wills and Rebecca O’Connell, this Special Issue of the journal Children & Society addresses the social and economic determinants shaping what children and young people eat and the.. Read More
A research brief by the Families and Food in Hard Times study is published today by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute as part of a new three-part series of.. Read More
Food banks have become a metonym for food poverty in breadline Britain, but data about their use underestimate the scale of the problem. Our new article in the journal Social.. Read More
A new paper examining young people’s food consumption in relation to family affluence (FAS) over time in England has been published in the Journal of Youth Studies. The Health Behaviour.. Read More
IOE London blog by Rebecca O’Connell, Julia Brannen and Abigail Knight For more than a century the UK government has provided free school meals (FSM) to children whose education might.. Read More
Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton have a chapter on ‘Food Poverty’ in the recently published ‘The Violence of Austerity’, edited by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte. Austerity, a response to.. Read More
On Wednesday 21st June 2017 Dr Rebecca O’Connell will give a keynote lecture at the Trends in Excellent and Interdisciplinary Lifestyle, Obesity and Metabolic Research Conference, University of Copenhagen. Food poverty.. Read More
This week Dr Abigail Knight will give a presentation at the Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm University, Sweden, as part of the stream on ‘Austerities, Economic Crises and Neoliberalisms: Experiences of children, young.. Read More
On Monday 27 March 2017, Dr Rebecca O’Connell will present early findings from the UK research for Families and Food in Hard Times at the Centre for Innovation and Research in.. Read More
Today, 16th September 2016, Abigail Knight, one of the UK study team, presents early findings from our qualitative research in England at the Leeds Centre for Interdisciplinary Childhood and Youth.. Read More
On Monday 19th September Antonia Simon, a member of the study’s UK research team, presents at the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) in La Barrosa Cadiz Spain. The.. Read More
Guest Editors: Wendy Wills (University of Hertfordshire) and Rebecca O’Connell (Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL) Deadline for abstracts: 30th September 2016 Contemporary concern with food security and nutritional diets indicates.. Read More
At the 7th Child and teen consumption conference this week in Aalborg, Denmark, Dr Rebecca O’Connell and Professor Wendy Wills are convening a special session on children’s and teenagers’ food.. Read More