SchoolGrid partners with UK university to investigate children’s food choices in schools
This new study is part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Hannah Ensaff from the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds.
SchoolGrid and Dr Ensaff have been working together to see how they can better understand how children and parents select a school lunch. This work aims to reveal valuable insights that will help SchoolGrid to consider the best food environment for children to make food decisions that promote a healthy, nutritious and varied diet.
For this new study Inès François, a PhD researcher supervised by Dr Ensaff and Dr Matt Homer, and an expert in quantitative methods will be spending the next two years examining food choice data from primary schools to see what findings these may hold.
A spokesperson for SchoolGrid commented: “This is an exciting project that will give us a greater understanding of how children select their school lunch and will also contribute to future interventions to improve children’s food choice in schools.”