Dr Ellen McHugh, Senior Lecturer in Education and Dr Emma Wainwright, Reader in Education, have been awarded a small research grant by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust for research looking at the growing provision of free food for students by universities in England.
The full title of their research is: ‘New spaces of free food provision: geographies of welfare, need and support among university students’. The project will map university free food provision; critique the wider politics of inequality driving this; and examine the everyday temporality and spatiality of student free food use.
Dr McHugh, Principal Investigator of the research project commented: “With the cost-of-living crisis, new and more visible users of foodbanks and free food provision have emerged, including university students. This project will allow us to examine the drivers, practices and experiences of university free food provision, and explore the wider constructions of HE providers’ role and responsibilities towards their student populations”.
If you would like to know more about this project, please contact Dr Ellen McHugh (ellen.mchugh@brunel.ac.uk).