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
Laura Hamilton, Postgraduate Researcher on the Families and Food in Hard Times study, participated in a workshop on food poverty that was hosted by the Food Research Collaboration and jointly.. Read More
FoodNet and ReACH Seminar, University of Hertfordshire – All Welcome Thursday, 3rd December 2015 1-4pm What young people eat and drink in the neighbourhood around schools is viewed as a.. Read More
The British Sociological Association Food Study Group & the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) will be delighted to welcome staff and students to this lunchtime seminar. Please note this is.. Read More
Following the success of the event on ‘Food, poverty and policy: evidence base and knowledge gaps’, jointly hosted by Speri and the British Sociological Association’s Food Study Group, SPERI.. Read More
Fully Funded PhD Studentship Ref: 1483875 UCL Department / Division UCL Institute of Education Specific unit / Sub department Department Social Science Duration of Studentship 3 years Stipend £17,493 per.. Read More
Virginia Morrow, Young Lives, University of Oxford, 16th June 2015, 1-2pm, TCRU Library, 27-28 Woburn Square WC1H 0AA This paper explores how food insecurity affects children’s daily lives in Ethiopia,.. Read More
Food, poverty and policy: evidence base and knowledge gaps. BSA Food Study Group – SPERI event. Tuesday 30th June 2015, 09:00-17:00 Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, S1.. Read More
Call for Papers: 7th Child and teen consumption 2016: Cultural contexts, relations and practices Aalborg University, Denmark, 27-29th of April 2016 Special Session: Children’s and teenagers’ food practices in contexts.. Read More
A new peer reviewed paper by some of the study’s researchers has been published in the journal Sociological Research Online. The article by Abigail Knight, Julia Brannen and Rebecca O’Connell,.. Read More
Free public event, University of East London, Stratford, 19th March 2015, 6pm-8pm. Rising food, housing and energy prices, together with low pay, insecure work and benefit changes, have created a.. Read More
Over the last thirty years national income has doubled. So has poverty. Where did it all go wrong? Poverty in Britain is at crisis levels. Food bank queues, poor housing.. Read More