Comments Off on New article: Experiences of food poverty among undocumented parents with children in three European countries: a multi-level research strategy
A growing literature addresses undocumented migrants in different countries, with governmental exclusion from welfare and health services a common theme. However, little is known comparatively about the difference social context.. Read More
Comments Off on Young people in food poverty: a lost generation?
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
Comments Off on What food-insecure children want you to know about hunger
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
Comments Off on The Global Staffroom Podcast: Food and/as social reproduction
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
Comments Off on Charles Dickens, seditionist for our times: online play featuring young people from our research
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
Comments Off on We’re not ‘all in this together’: COVID-19 exposes stark realities of food insecurity
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
Comments Off on Living Hand to Mouth: children and food in low income families – published today
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
Comments Off on A proper meal? New blog post comparing free school meals in Portugal and the UK
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
Comments Off on Food and hard times in three European countries
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
Comments Off on When children cannot invite friends to have a snack’: article in Público newspaper, Portugal
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
Comments Off on THE BMJ Opinion : Child food poverty requires radical long term solutions
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
Comments Off on Children’s experiences of food poverty in UK newspapers
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
Comments Off on Published today: Special Issue of Children & Society ‘Children’s and Young People’s Food Practices in Contexts of Poverty and Inequality’
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
Comments Off on Which Types of Family are at Risk of Food Poverty in the UK? A Relative Deprivation Approach
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
Comments Off on Greater entitlement to free school meals would reduce stigma, shame and hunger
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
Comments Off on The Violence of Austerity: chapter on Food Poverty
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
Comments Off on Families and Food Poverty in Austerity Europe: keynote at University of Copenhagen LOM conference
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
Comments Off on Private spaces and hiding places: talk at the Nordic Geographers Meeting
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
Comments Off on Families and Food in Austerity Britain: early findings
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
Comments Off on Families and Food in Hard Times at the European Association for Research on Adolescence
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
Comments Off on Special Session at CTC2016: Children’s and teenagers’ food practices in contexts of poverty and inequality
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
Comments Off on ‘Mapping the way forward on food poverty’: FFHT contribution to Food Research Collaboration Workshop
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
Comments Off on Seminar: Fleshing out fat: materialisations of fatness in a disadvantaged Australian suburb
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
Comments Off on TCRU Lunchtime Seminar, 16th June 2015: “I cannot attend class properly if I am hungry, so it affects my schooling”: Food and hunger in children’s everyday lives in Ethiopia: evidence from Young Lives
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
Comments Off on Final Programme: Food, poverty and policy: evidence base and knowledge gaps, 30th June, University of Sheffield
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
