Mandala – Transforming urban food systems
@mandala_food
Researching ways to transform urban food systems in Birmingham & beyond for planetary & population health | Consortium led by @MRC_Epid | Funded by @UKRI_News
We’ll be checking in before & after Mandala research projects through a series of short films. Here's a taster of the first film profiling our research with Change Kitchen, a social enterprise in Balsall Health, Birmingham... #foodsystems #healthy #sustainable
It’s now four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from the Fenland COVID-19 study and the main Fenland Study is helping us discover more about the impact of the pandemic and its long term effects on health behaviours. mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/0…
Heard of participatory systems mapping and not sure where to start? A new guidance and framework developed by researchers @theSPHSU & @Cambridge_Uni will help you select the method that’s right for you and think about how to design your project doi.org/10.36399/gla.p…
Researchers for the Mandala Consortium studied the environmental sustainability of inpatient paediatric menus, while assessing the potential to maintain/improve the nutritional value and the appeal of the dishes, and the related costs to the NHS. Watch - youtube.com/shorts/8e_3r-1…
We're very pleased to announce that PHI UK and the UKPRP Prevention Research Network will be hosting Prevention Research 2026 in Birmingham, 4-5 March. Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity. Register interest at preventionresearch26.co.uk #preventionresearch26
Our researchers studied the environmental sustainability of inpatient paediatric menus, while assessing the potential to maintain/improve the nutritional value and the appeal of the dishes, and the related costs to the NHS. Watch - youtu.be/6HGHYReY1Nw?si…
Register for the webinar - Optimising surplus food redistribution operations for business and society - which focuses on how logistics can help improve surplus food redistribution. Date: 16/10/2024 Time: 12noon-13pm BST Registration: cranfield.ac.uk/som/events/sup…
Check out this taster film below from @mandala_food and if you're interested, watch the whole thing here mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a… We'll be releasing more films on all of our interventions and evaluations over the next year...
We’ll be checking in before & after Mandala research projects through a series of short films. Here's a taster of the first film profiling our research with Change Kitchen, a social enterprise in Balsall Health, Birmingham... #foodsystems #healthy #sustainable
Of interest @mandala_food @thefoodrules theguardian.com/environment/20…
Have you seen our new vid about our work with Change Kitchen in Birmingham? Taster👇& watch the whole thing at mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a… @Food_Foundation @FoodSecurityUK @BBSRC @UKRI_News @TraceyDuncombe @FixOurFoodteam @BeanMealsUK @foodsequal @healthyfood_h3 @VegCities @nesta_uk
We’ll be checking in before & after Mandala research projects through a series of short films. Here's a taster of the first film profiling our research with Change Kitchen, a social enterprise in Balsall Health, Birmingham... #foodsystems #healthy #sustainable
Exciting...the first film on interventions being evaluated by @mandala_food is out! #foodsystems
Check out this taster film below from @mandala_food and if you're interested, watch the whole thing here mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a… We'll be releasing more films on all of our interventions and evaluations over the next year...
Today we publish the DEPTH Framework for categorising the agentic demands of population health interventions. This builds on our 2016 paper on the role of agency in population health interventions (journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…). Great work from a great team! link.springer.com/article/10.118…
ICYM / didn't have time for the long thread this morning on our new Food Research risK (FoRK) toolkit to help researchers navigate industry interactions, here's the whole thing in a minute or so mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/2…
Researchers interacting with the food industry can be subject to conflicts of interest and reputational risks. New guidance published in @bmj_latest can help researchers navigate this tricky territory... mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/2… 🧵
📢*NEW* paper to add to our work in this area (mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studi…): Avoiding conflicts of interest and reputational risks associated with population research on food and nutrition: the Food Research risK (FoRK) guidance and toolkit for researchers bmj.com/content/384/bm…
6⃣ key takeaways from this year's @ORFC Our City Food Policy Lead @leticija_p reflects on sessions from @FFC_Commission @FoodPlacesUK @mandala_food about how we can create fairer #FoodSystems Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3RYFoIy #ORFC2024
Last session here in Oxford #ORFC24 talking Public Food Procurement with Kelly Parsons @thefoodrules from @mandala_food Pearl Costello @PearlCCostello of @foodsensewales Sustain’s @sofia57parente and others!
Fab session on the power of public procurement to support agroecological farming with panelists (tagged in pic) sharing their learnings on piloting local, sustainable school meal supply chains. Caterers, farmers & Sustainable @FoodPlacesUK blazing new supply trails together!
My @mandala_food colleague Leticija Petrovic @Food_Foundation introduces this first #ORFC24 panel on the role of local authorities in changing #foodsystems #foodpolicy