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Author: Rebecca O'Connell ,
Julia Brannen
Publisher: UCL Press
Imprint: UCL Press
Weight: 0.730kg
ISBN: 9781787356573
ISBN 10: 1787356574
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 May 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'A valuable contribution to trans-national debates on food policy and social policy as well as a key addition to academic literature on poverty as experienced by mothers and children. ...It will greatly contribute to academic understanding and provides useful policy insights which should be heeded by policy makers and those in power across Europe.' Critical Social Policy 'The ambitious scope of Families and Food in Hard Times - the culmination of a �1 million European Research Council grant - is matched only by the quality, depth and detail of the accounts it describes.... [a] considerable contribution to understanding the material, social, emotional consequences of food poverty' Sociology
'A valuable contribution to trans-national debates on food policy and social policy as well as a key addition to academic literature on poverty as experienced by mothers and children. ...It will greatly contribute to academic understanding and provides useful policy insights which should be heeded by policy makers and those in power across Europe.' Critical Social Policy 'The ambitious scope of Families and Food in Hard Times - the culmination of a £1 million European Research Council grant - is matched only by the quality, depth and detail of the accounts it describes.... [a] considerable contribution to understanding the material, social, emotional consequences of food poverty' Sociology
Author Information
Rebecca O’Connell is Reader in the Sociology of Food and Families, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. She is co-author, with Julia Brannen, of Food, Families and Work (2016) and with Abigail Knight and Julia Brannen, of Living Hand to Mouth: Children and food in low-income families (2019) and co-editor of a new collection, What is Food? Researching a topic with many meanings (2019). From 2011-2017 she was Co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Food Study Group. In addition to her substantive interests, Rebecca has expertise in research methodology, particularly mixed and multi methods research. Julia Brannen is Emerita Professor of Sociology of the Family, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Julia’s career in research spans four decades: an international reputation for research on family, work-family issues, intergenerational relationships, and food in families. She is also well-known for her expertise in methodology including mixed methods, biographical approaches and comparative research. Her latest book is Social Research Matters (2019).
