The BSA Food Study Group/Scottish Colloquium on Food and Feeding (SCOFF) encourages a sociological analysis of all aspects of food production and consumption.
🔔It's out! A new paper on how families on low incomes engage with their food environment.
Personal favourite findings that you may not expect were:
1) In the context of limited opportunities for affordable activities, parents use their food environment to... 1/3
My paper published today (open access) ‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID-19, thanks to all participants, reviewers and to @BERANews for funding this research @wlv_uni@UoWFEHWbera-journals.onlinelibrary.…
Come and do research with DEFRA, and in particular with my team! This is a fantastic (and rare) opportunity to do trials based research to influence food policy. We need comparable evidence about the effectiveness of different interventions. Hopefully see you at the webinar :)
New funding call: Apply to lead an ambitious programme of research trials in the food system to support healthier & more sustainable diets for all. An applicant webinar will be held on 18 July. More: orlo.uk/nffWr@DefraGovUK@foodgov@educationgovuk@luhcl@DHSCgovuk
ALT A spread of fruit and vegetables, including grapes, papaya, strawberries, apples, dried apricots, tomatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts and artichokes.
We want to hear about your work! If you fancy giving a paper at the seminar in the next academic year, we'd love to hear from you. As ever, any aspect of food-related history, from any place or period, is welcome. Get in touch by 10 July >>>> docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Update on school food event. The first 'School Meals Conference', 9th - 11th September 2020, Western Norway College of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. Link to abstract submission below which will open at the end of February @BSA_Food@tastedfeedhvl.no/en/research/conferenc…
'Schools, Space and Culinary Capital', during a difficult few years for all, really grateful to see this book published, I discuss how school food policy is classed, gendered and racialised shorturl.at/gvAN2@BSA_Food @UOWEdObs @SchoolMeals_@sfmtweet@Food_Foundation
Sharing the call for chapter abstracts for the proposed book titled The Social Nature of Food in India, to be edited by me and @GurpinderLalli. Feel free to reach out with queries and entries. Details in the photo. PS - my first attempt at editing a book.