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Project #:
QLK1-CT-2002-02447
Acronym:
SENIOR FOOD-QOL
Partner: University of Surrey, UK
Team:
Dr Margaret Lumbers (m.lumbers@surrey.ac.uk) (School of Management)
Dr Monique Raats (m.raats@surrey.ac.uk) (Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre)
Prof. Sara Arber (s.arber@surrey.ac.uk) (Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender)
Dr Kate Davidson (k.davidson@surrey.ac.uk) (Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender)
Dr Anita Eves (a.eves@surrey.ac.uk) (School of Management)
Charo Hodgkins (c.hodgkins@surrey.ac.uk) (School of Management)
Dr Wendy Hunter (w.hunter@surrey.ac.uk) (School of Management)
Helen Marshall (h.marshall@surrey.ac.uk) (Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender)
Prof. Richard Shepherd (r.shepherd@surrey.ac.uk) (Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre)
Address: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Tel: +44 1483300800
Fax: +44 1483300803
Web: www.surrey.ac.uk/SHS/fcbh.html
Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre: The Food,
Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre (www.surrey.ac.uk/SHS/fcbh.html) is a multidisciplinary research centre within the University of Surrey, which brings together researchers from psychology, nutrition and management in order to address issues concerned with food and consumer behaviour.
The Centre is currently co-ordinating a second EU project CONDOR as well as conducting projects for the UK Food Standards Agency on low-income participation in policy making, food hygiene training in industry and the use of food composition databases and a major project on attitudes towards genomics funded by the Economics and Social Research Council.
The Research Centre has extensive links with potential users of the research, including UK government departments (in particular the Food Standards Agency), industry, trade organisations and consumer organisations and representatives.
School of Management: The University of Surrey's School of Management (www.som.surrey.ac.uk) offers world-class management education to an international community. Its strength is providing qualifications which are both relevant to, and valued by, today's global community and preparing individuals to think creatively and practically within a rapidly changing environment.
The school provides internationally recognised undergraduate and postgraduate management degrees in the specialist fields of hospitality, tourism, food, retail and health care management, a well established and highly regarded MBA along with a variety of postgraduate programmes across a range of broader management disciplines. In addition, the School's excellent reputation in research is supported by the PhD and DBA research degree programmes.
The School researches in a variety of management-related subjects in food, retail, hospitality and tourism management. Key research activities amongst the food management portfolio include nutritional implications of food choices in different food service sectors including schools, prisons, hospitals and day centres for older people. Other ongoing research includes factors affecting food choices such as risk perception and cultural effects. Food Standards Agency (FSA) funded projects in the areas of food hygiene education and food composition databases are being undertaken in conjunction with the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre of which the School of Management
is a member.
Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender: The Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG) is located in the Sociology Department at Surrey (www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/crag). CRAG brings together social scientific expertise to conduct policy relevant research on gender and ageing. The principal aim is to advance understanding of how gender influences the experience of ageing, and how ageing influences gender roles and relationships across the life course.
Members of CRAG are undertaking a range of research studies, including an EU study of sleep in ageing women, comparative research on care homes in Germany and the UK, and a US funded comparative study of doctor's decision-making for older patients. Recent research on older men and on pensions has attracted widespread publicity. CRAG provides opportunities for doctoral research, as will as MSc programmes in ageing.
Role in Project:
• Co-ordination of overall project
• Establishment of project infrastructure and communication links
• Responsible for Workpackages 1,4,5 and 8
• Involvement in Workpackages 2,3,6 and 7
Team Profile:
Monique Raats and Margaret Lumbers are the joint project co-ordinators of
Food in Later Life. Both are members of the University's Food Consumer
Behaviour and Health Research Centre. Monique and one of the other Food
in Later Life team members, Richard Shepherd, are codirectors of this
research centre. Margaret is a Senior Lecturer in Food Management in the
Consumer Services Group, School of Management. She is also leading WP4
(Satisfaction with food-related services available to seniors). The Food
in Later Life team also includes Wendy Hunter (appointed as Research
Fellow for the project) and Anita Eves of the School of Management.
Wendy Hunter will be working on WPs 2-4. Charo Hodgkins, who has extensive
experience of managing technical projects within blue chip companies,
has been specially appointed to assist Monique and Margaret with the
running of the project.
The University's Centre for Research in Ageing and Gender (CRAG) is represented by its co-directors: Sara Arber and Kate Davidson who are medical sociologists. Sara and Kate are leaders of WP5 (The role of formal and informal networks in food procurement, preparation and consumption). Their group also includes a recently appointed research fellow, Helen Marshall, who will be working on WP5 and WP6.
The University of Surrey will also be actively involved in all experimental WPs. The WP devoted to dissemination is also led by the University's Food in Later Life team, but in this they will be helped by their subcontractor, Margaret Ashwell of Ashwell Associates who is supported by Anne de la Hunty.