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Liz Dowler

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Elizabeth Dowler

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Professor

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Sociology
Room R3.31
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 76523549
Fax: 024 76523497
Email: Elizabeth.Dowler@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


I am currently working on food and poverty, food access in areas of social deprivation, evaluation of local initiatives, and policy intervention at local and national level. I recently completed research investigating public perceptions of BSE/CJD and 'risk in food' as part of an EU funded project. My recent publications, with colleagues, include: Reconnecting Consumer, Producers and Food: exploring alternatives (2008 forthcoming) Berg; Challenging Health Inequalties: from Acheson to 'Choosing Health' (2007) Policy Press; Welfare of Food: rights and responsibilities in a changing world (2003) Blackwellls; Poverty and Social Exclusion North and South (2003) Routledge; Poverty bites: food, health and poor families (2001) Child Poverty Action Group; Food projects and how they work (1999). I publish widely in specialized and professional journals and books, write technical briefings for non-specialists, and am a regular public speaker on nutrition and poverty, or on policy responses.

RESEARCH GROUPS


  • Institute of Health

BACKGROUND


I am a Registered Public Health Nutritionist. I worked for many years in the South/developing countries, primarily through the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and UN agencies. Recently I have worked more on food and nutrition policy and social problems in the North/Europe. I moved to Warwick in 2000 and am now in the Social Policy group in the Department of Sociology. I am a member of Warwick HRI Advisory Board, a Director member of the Food Ethics Council UK, a member of the Food Access Network Working Party for Sustain (the alliance of safe food and farming), and sit on several external research steering groups.

RESEARCH PROJECTS


There are no current research projects


Previous Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Watt, R.G., Tull, K.I., Hardy, R., Wiggins M., Kelly, Y., Molloy, B., Dowler, E., Apps, J. and McGlone, P., (2009) 'Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices: randomised controlled trial' Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health 63 156 - 162 (0143-005X) [article]
  • Dowler E (4th author), Kneafsey M (1st author) Holloway L (2nd) Cox R (3rd) Venn L (5th) Tuomainen H (6th), (2008) Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: exploring alternatives , Oxford: Berg
  • Dowler E A (2008) 'Food and Health Inequalities' Local Environment 13 (8), 759 - 772 (1354-9839)
  • Dowler, E.A (2008) 'Policy initiatives to address low income households' nutritional needs in the UK' Proceedings Of The Nutrition Society 67 (3), 289 - 300 (0029-6651)
  • Cox, R., Holloway, L., Venn, L., Dowler, E., Ricketts-Hein, J., Kneafsey, M., Tuomainen, H (2008) 'Common Ground? Motivations for participation in a community supported agriculture scheme' Local Environment 13 (3), 203 - 218 (1354-9839)

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