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.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
FO04014: Consumer insights into food prices and food security, with Dr Rosemary H Collier, Warwick HRI, Professor Elizabeth A Dowler RegPHN - Sociology
- University of Warwick
- University of Warwick, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
Project Start Date:
01/07/2009
Project End Date:
31/07/2010
Professor Elizabeth A Dowler,
MacMillan, T, (2010) 'Secure and Sustainable? Examining the Rhetroic and Potential Realities of UK Food and Agriculture Policy'
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
(1187-7863)
Professor Elizabeth A Dowler,
O'Connor, D, (2010) 'Rights Based Aproaches to Addressing Health Inequalities - the case of food poverty'
Social Science And Medicine
(0277-9536)
Professor Elizabeth A Dowler,
Kneafsey, M, Cox, R and Holloway, L, (2010) 'Doing Food Differently: Re-connecting Biological and Social Relations through Care for Food'
in
Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis,
, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell
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.
(2008) 'Policy initiatives to address low-income households? nutritional needs in the UK'
Proceedings Of The Nutrition Society
67
(3), 289 - 300 (0029-6651)
[article]