Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!

Authors

  • Lesley Frank Acadia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13

Keywords:

Case study, methodology, infant food insecurity

Abstract

This narrative presents refections on the role of the food studies researcher from the prespective of a new academic with a background in community and policy work. It details a multi-phased, mixed methods case study on the public policy relations of infant food insecurity in Canada and provides a discussion of some unintentional outcomes of doing food studies research. The author suggests that an integrative approach, one where the researcher bridges the micro-effects of public policy with policy making realms, is ideally suited to food studies and food policy analysis. The narrative reveals how a researcher can become the hyphens in the community—university—policy divide through the process of storytelling.   

Author Biography

Lesley Frank, Acadia University

Assistant Professor,Department of Sociology

Research associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia

References

Department of Agricultural and Agri-Food. (1998). Canada’s action plan for food security. Retrieved April 15, 2009, from http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=misb&s2=fsec-seca&page=action.

Public Health Agency of Canada. (2008) retrieved at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hp-ps/dca-dea/prog-ini/capc-pace/index-eng.php

Stocking, B. (1995). Why research findings are not used by commissions –and what can be done about it. Journal of public health medicine, 17(4): 380-382.
close up of two stalks of asparagus poking up out of the soil with people standing the background

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Published

2014-05-15

How to Cite

Frank, L. (2014). Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!. Canadian Food Studies La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 1(1), 88–98. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): Début

Section

Field Reports / Narratives

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