Team Profile:
The research at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences (PHCS) at Uppsala University is multidisciplinary, and food and meal research is one important area. At present, the Department is carrying out studies on younger peoples' perceptions and attitudes to organic food, on older peoples' meal habits and on nutritional status in hospitals and wards.

The food and meal research at the Department of Domestic Sciences (DDS) at Uppsala University is multidisciplinary and focuses on peoples' food habits and dietary intake and how food, meals and food-related activities are organised, perceived, valued, and included in daily life among people in private and public households.

PHCS and DDS are responsible for WP6 and are involved in all other WP’s.

Birgitta Sidenvall is WP 6 leader and belongs to PHCS. Her main research interest is to understand food and meal habits from a cultural and caring perspective. She is involved in all WPs. Kerstin Gustafsson has studied food and meals particularly among older women from a cultural perspective. She is responsible for the qualitative and statistical analyses in all WPs. Christina Fjellström is the WP6 leader at DDS. Her main research interest is to understand food and meal habits from a cultural and social perspective. She is involved in all WPs.

Ylva Mattsson Sydner has studied food and meals especially in the public sector care of the elderly. She is mostly responsible for the qualitative analyses in all WPs. Jenny Andersson has studied dietary intake and meals, particularly among older women. She is especially responsible for the statistical analyses in all WPs. Margaretha Nydahl has studied dietary and health aspects in older peoples' food. She is involved in all WPs.