In 2014, just a few months after I returned to the U.K. from Hong Kong I wrote the following:
Category Archives: Social Positions
Increasing Diet Diversity in Low-Income Communities: Some issues and some solutions.
I recently wrote a piece for an online journal called Impakter making the argument that we need to do more than just admonish people to change their diets and that for those in low-income communities this change can be particularly difficult. This is the text, which initially appeared on Impakter… Continue reading
Response to call for submissions for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights to the UK Government
This response underpins the oral evidence presented by Dr. Megan Blake at Bristol University on 6/11/18. The hearing focused on rural poverty.
New Conversation Article: Rising income inequalities are linked to unhealthy diets and loneliness.
Rising income inequalities are linked to unhealthy diets and loneliness
Megan Blake, University of Sheffield
One in every five people in the UK today are living in poverty – that is, living with a household income below 60% of the median national income when housing costs are considered. And according to recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, two thirds of children in poverty live in a working family. These rates are expected to increase sharply by 2021-22, assuming there is no change in government policy. Continue reading
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