Food is not rubbish: helping schools reduce waste, costs & carbon 🧑‍🍳♻️🌍 @liverpooluni.bsky.social's @charlottehardman.bsky.social explores and understand how schools can tackle the issue of food waste in the school dining room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpr...

Food is not rubbish: helping schools reduce waste, costs & carbon

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🧵 Last year, Professor Charlotte Hardman, Lisa Didier and Natasha Bayes launched the Food Is Not Rubbish project which set out to explore and understand how schools can tackle the issue of food waste in the school dining room. Read more about the project ➡️ bit.ly/479YOm2 (1/3)

New research on getting people to eat more beans! 🫘🫘🫘📈 Listen to Guy Poppy & @charlottehardman.bsky.social on BBC Today & read more from @rebeccasc.bsky.social in the @the-independent.com: 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📰 www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... #beans #healthyfood #foodsystems

'It's actually easier to buy a vape than it is to buy an apple'🍎 Guy Poppy, co-editor of a report for the @royalsociety.org, and @charlottehardman.bsky.social talked to the Today Programme this morning about Britain's broken food system and how to fix it for people and the planet.

Explore the impact junk food advertising can have on our children, how our environment shapes what we eat, and the role social media plays on our dietary health. @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Emma Boyland, Charlotte Hardman and Becky Evans discuss. Listen now ▶️💡🎙️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...

We're delighted to be part of this ‪@ukri.org funded project led by Prof Charlotte Hardman @charlottehardman.bsky.social‬ at @liverpooluni.bsky.social Unit researcher Dr Alexia Sawyer is a co-investivator and the @cam.ac.uk‬ lead for this study. www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

UKRI funded study seeks to address dietary inequalities for people living in social housing - MRC Epidemiology Unit

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded a £1.53 million grant for major study aiming to address dietary inequalities and improve the life chances of people living in social housing […]

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Liverpool mobile greengrocer to reach ‘food deserts’ with aid of mapping tool

Delighted that our SCHOUSE project has been funded We will be codesigning & evaluating 2 interventions to improve access to fresh F&V for social housing residents in Liverpool (mobile greengrocer + F&V vouchers) Amazing team of academics and partners 🙌 working together to deliver impactful change

University of Liverpool News@livuninews.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS I £1.46M @ukri.org funding for project to tackle food inequality in region led by @charlottehardman.bsky.social & working with 9 #LCR orgs. Read more below ⬇️ 🍎 🏠 🥕 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/07/08/s... @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

🚌 Big news! Our Queen of Greens mobile greengrocer will be expanding — reaching 100 more families each week as part of a new government-backed push to tackle food inequality in areas where it is “easier to buy a vape than an apple”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... @theguardian.com

Liverpool mobile greengrocer to reach ‘food deserts’ with aid of mapping tool

Government-funded pilot in areas where it’s ‘easier to buy a vape than an apple’ may be extended across UK

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Liverpool mobile greengrocer to reach ‘food deserts’ with aid of mapping tool

Liverpool mobile greengrocer to reach ‘food deserts’ with aid of mapping tool

Exclusive: Government-funded pilot in areas where it’s ‘easier to buy a vape than an apple’ may be extended across UK A mobile greengrocer will deliver fresh fruit and vegetables in areas of Liverpool where it is “easier to buy a vape than an apple” as part of a new government scheme to tackle food inequality. Families in social housing will receive visits from the Queen of Greens, a mobile greengrocer in the city, which will be directed to the areas of highest need. Continue reading...

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My friend is crowdfunding for a community garden in north London. Please share. Thank you! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-allen...

Hola de Malaga! Enjoyed presenting our latest #FIOFood data on obesity and food insecurity at #ECO2025

Prof. Emma Boyland@emmaboyland.bsky.social · last yr.

Fabulous presentations from my @livuni-iph.bsky.social colleagues @charlottehardman.bsky.social and Edi Putra at the ECO25 Environment and Policy abstract session 👏

New paper! We examined the role of psychological distress, food choice motives, and meal patterning in the association between food insecurity and diet quality... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding the association between household food insecurity and diet quality: The role of psychological distress, food choice motives and meal patterning

Household food insecurity – a lack of reliable access to food that is safe, nutritious, and sufficient for normal growth – is associated with physical…

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📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #spffoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs

📢 Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our new UKRI-funded project on dietary health inequalities @liverpooluni.bsky.social. See below for further details & reach out if any questions. tinyurl.com/mpwbkdub

Busy week of public engagement. 1. @livunisustain.bsky.social Sustainability Fair showcasing our research on sustainable eating & food waste. 2. Talking Psychology careers & all things brains at the boy's school careers fair

Excited to be at @LivUni Sustainability Fair today 11am-3pm Guild of Students. We're showcasing our research on sustainable eating, including #BeanMeals & #FoodisNotRubbish projects. If you're on campus, come say hello! @lisadidier.bsky.social @livunisustain.bsky.social

Recruitment is still open for our study about implementing a new approach to managing obesity. We would love to hear from professionals working to support health & wellbeing of people living with obesity, especially from social care, local authorities, voluntary sector, ICBs @livunipsyc.bsky.social

Prof Charlotte Hardman@charlottehardman.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're conducting a study @liverpooluni.bsky.social about putting an obesity intervention into practice. If you provide weight management & wellbeing support to people living with obesity and would be interested in participating, please contact us (details attached) @arcnwc.bsky.social

Professor Charlotte Hardman recently collaborated with the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, to produce a guide called BeanMeals, which features tips for creating healthy and sustainable school menus @charlottehardman.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/4aYFmJy

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Got new important findings that weren't available by the standard abstract deadline? Good news - the late breaking abstract submission is now open for #ECO2025 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Anyone interested in or doing 'co-production' research check out this @coprofutures.bsky.social INQUIRY Look 👇

The Co-Pro Futures Inquiry@coprofutures.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is a quick visual summary of how to submit evidence and ideas on how the UK higher education sector can 'get our own house in order' to support co-produced and participatory research Visit www.linkedin.com/groups/14550... to download the full report

Our new FIO Food paper highlights multiple barriers to purchasing healthy sustainable foods for people living with #Obesity and #FoodInsecurity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @paulchristiansen.bsky.social @profalexjohnstone.bsky.social

We're conducting a study @liverpooluni.bsky.social about putting an obesity intervention into practice. If you provide weight management & wellbeing support to people living with obesity and would be interested in participating, please contact us (details attached) @arcnwc.bsky.social

And that's a wrap on our special issue in #Appetite 24 articles on #FoodInsecurity, #obesity & the #CostOfLivingCrisis Guest-edited by myself and @profalexjohnstone.bsky.social Read our editorial here kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

An absolute pleasure to be in Leicester today at our #BeanMeals celebration event. John Ingram reflecting on project successes and next steps. Watch this space!

Brilliant to welcome @universityofleeds.bsky.social colleagues to @livuni-iph.bsky.social today to see our facilities (appetite labs and Digital Innovation Facility) and plan some collaborative projects

New paper from our FIO-Food grant! We explored the lived experiences of supermarket food shopping in people living with #Obesity and #FoodInsecurity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“We go hunting …”: Understanding experiences of people living with obesity and food insecurity when shopping for food in the supermarket to meet their weight related goals

The high prevalence of food insecurity in the United Kingdom has been exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis. In high-income countries, those experi…

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We've developed two new scales to measure self-stigma associated with food insecurity. Free to use and can be accessed here osf.io/fmpja?revisi...

Prof. Emma Boyland@emmaboyland.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 New paper: we developed and validated two novel scales to measure aspects of food insecurity stigma @paulchristiansen.bsky.social bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📢 New paper: we developed and validated two novel scales to measure aspects of food insecurity stigma @paulchristiansen.bsky.social bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Towards measuring food insecurity stigma: development and validation of the Food Insecurity Self-stigma Scale and the Food Support Experiences Scale - BMC Public Health

Background Within high income countries, individuals experiencing food insecurity have become increasingly reliant on food support to satisfy household food needs. However, experiencing food insecurit...

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