This Fuse QRM provides an overview of food insecurity in North East England and nationally, with a particular focus on COVID-19.

Our Keynote Speaker is Dr Rachel Loopstra, Lecturer in Food Nutrition, King’s College London. She spoke about vulnerability to food insecurity during COVID-19. Following her presentation, Neil Munslow, Service Manager, Active Inclusion for Newcastle City Council, discusses the impact from his perspective, with members of Fuse providing ‘bitesize’ insights into their work.

It is co-badged by the Fuse Complex Systems and Health Inequalities programmes.

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Event recording

Programme

9.30:   Welcome and Housekeeping - Professor Amelia Lake, Teesside University, Fuse Associate Director (Chair)

9.40:   Keynote Speaker: Vulnerability to food insecurity during COVID-19 - Dr Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London

10.00: A policy/practice perspective on responses to food poverty - Neil Munslow, Service Manager, Active Inclusion for Newcastle City Council

10.10:  ‘Bitesize’ presentations by Professor Greta Defeyter (Northumbria University); Dr Heather Brown (Newcastle University); Dr Steph Scott (Newcastle University); Eimer Brown, (FareShare Yorkshire)

10.30:  Q&A - Questions from the audience to speakers submitted via chat and chaired by Amelia Lake

10.50:  Close of structured session Dr Steph Scott

11.00:  Informal coffee and networking

About Dr Rachel Loopstra

Dr Loopstra’s research focuses on household food insecurity and food bank use in high-income countries. Specific projects involve novel data collected from households using food banks, and secondary data analyses of large data sets to explore the impact of poverty and social policies on food insecurity and nutrition.

More here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rachel-loopstra