Fatma Sabet

Department: Food Education for Health and Sustainability
Discipline: Education
Research Centre/Unit: Food Sudies Network

Project Summary

Research topic: Food Education for Health and Sustainability; a unique opportunity to align food education with health and sustainability goals in primary education.

This study is driven by the growing evidence of the direct link between diet and childhood obesity, and diet and climate change, and aims to explore ways to adapt current school lunches, food education curriculum, and other food related extra-curricular activities in two primary school settings in order to develop and enact a Food Education for Health and Sustainability (FEHS) partnership.

 

Supervisory Team

Professor Justin Dillon, professor of Science and Environmental Education

Professor Brahm Norwich, professor of Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs

Wider Research Interests

I am deeply interested in food as 'the problem and the solution' behind issues relating to public health and childhood obesity, social equality and rising food poverty and climate change and the environment. I am also entrigued by the role of formal and informal educational policy and practice in promoting a healthy and sustainable food culture in schools in particular and the society overall.