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Webinar: Children’s food practices

When: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Online

Join us for the second in a series of four webinars organised by the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN). This series explores social issues relating to children and their bodies. In the second webinar, three expert panellists will discuss social and professional discourses and practices regarding children’s relationship with food.

Panellists:

Sarah Gillborn is an Assistant Professor in Psychology in Education at the University of Birmingham. She is a critical psychologist interested in critical feminist and qualitative research. Sarah’s research focuses on analyses of discourse and voice, particularly in relation to public policy, in order to understand how social issues are officially constructed and re/negotiated by those implicated by them. In addition, Sarah’s work takes a critical look at the role of psychology as a discipline in reproducing and challenging oppression.

Tina Moffat is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her areas of expertise are the social and cultural determinants of food, nutrition, and food insecurity with a focus on maternal-child food and nutrition and immigrant dietary change. Her research perspectives are grounded in biocultural and political-economic approaches in the geographic areas of Canada and Nepal. Recent publications related to children’s food and nutrition are: Small Bites. Biocultural Dimensions of Children’s Food and Nutrition (University of British Columbia Press, 2022) and "Children’s Food: Historical, Sociocultural, and Public Health Perspectives” (in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies, edited by Darra Goldstein and published by Oxford University Press).

Jennifer Patico is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research in both Russia and the United States, and she is the author of two books: Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class (Stanford University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center 2008) and The Trouble With Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting (New York University Press 2020). Her research has centered on middle-class identities, experiences of self and personhood, understandings of value, and the mediation of these through consumer culture in settings of contemporary capitalism.

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