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 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 What do diaries from Mass Observation say about food practices in 1950?
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
Comments Off on Published today: Breadline Britain, Stuart Lansley and Joanna Mack
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