Free school meals provide support to vulnerable families in the Republic of Ireland. Funding
is allocated as part of an anti-poverty strategy. An investigation was carried out to discover if …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper draws on conceptions of culinary capital and
socialisation to explore children's experiences of mealtime in one academy school. In this …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of the Food For Life Partnership
(FFLP) whole school food programme on kitchen staff employment and professional …

A project based at the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research
(CEDAR) at the University of Warwick is currently exploring the formal and informal ways in …

This article focuses on a case study of food and eating practices in a co‐educational, multi‐
ethnic primary school. It illustrates discrepancies between the formal curriculum for food and …

This expository article addresses a lacuna in policy and practice literature around using
primary school lunches as both a pedagogical opportunity and a space to expose children to …

Background: Overweight/obesity affects one-third of UK 11–15-year olds. Individually
focussed interventions alone have limited effectiveness. Food choice architecture …

Consumer disconnections with food production methods remain of concern to those
promoting food knowledge and healthy food attitudes. Knowing food is central to bridging …

In the United Kingdom (UK), under successive governments, there have been many
changes over the years on 'cooking in schools' policy, ranging from the removal of cooking …

This article questions whether we need to reconsider school meals as social events,
communal gatherings and an educative space rather than just as a space to provide pupils …