The impact of cooking and related food skills on healthiness of diets
Project Reference: 11-2013
Status: Completed
Commencement Date: March, 2014
Project Duration: 18 months
Abstract:
This research will provide a holistic approach to understanding healthful dietary food skills on the island of Ireland and their impact on an individuals’ diet. By integrating social science perspectives with those of nutrition and gastronomy a food skills measurement tool will be developed and validated that would help to explore the current level of cooking skills, where these skills originated, how these skills have been developed, the most effective way to enhance these skills through learning and how they relate to dietary practices.
This research is conducted with a view to enhancing current understandings of how people use food related cooking and other skills and to recommend ways of improving these skills in the future to promote healthful diets.
Principal Contractor(s):
Dr Moira Dean, QU
Collaborator(s):
Prof Martin Caraher City University, London
Dr Lynsey Hollywood, University of Ulster Coleraine
Amanda Mc-Cloat St. Angela’s College, Sligo
Dr Elaine Mooney St. Angela’s College Sligo
Prof Monique Raats, University of Surrey
Dr Michelle Spence, Queens University Belfast
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Reports:
Forthcoming
