Day 2 @ #NewScientistLive! and we're having an amazing time 🦠🥙 The brilliant @centreofthecell.bsky.social are playing Microbe Trumps and @qmul-ceg.bsky.social are tackling improving Free School Meals.

We had a fabulous time meeting everyone at #NewScientistLive this week – children, teens, adults and dinosaurs! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk about school meals and play ‘balance the budget’ with us. @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

In chapter nine, our team foreground children’s voices from school food environments in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, arguing that research and policy can benefit immensely from children and young people’s perspectives and experiences around free school meals. Now available via @uclpress.bsky.social

✨Urban Childhoods: Growing up in Inequality and Hope. Our child health team have contributed to a new publication that compiles research on housing, play and food to consider what creates the best start for children growing up in England’s inner-city areas uclpress.co.uk/book/urban-c...

What a setting to engage with science! We enjoyed discussing our research with members of the public at Barts Pathology Museum this week. Natalia Concha @nataconar.bsky.social & Marta Wilk presented studies into school food & household overcrowding. More on these topics: www.qmul.ac.uk/ceg/research/

CEG’s Professor Carol Dezateux speaks to Barts Life Sciences about using health data to address inequalities, and our collaborative effort to unlock valuable information from tissue samples, imaging and genomics: bartslifesciences.org/harnessing-h...

Sandra Jovchelovitch & co-authors examined perspectives on mental health, emotional distress & wellbeing among conflict-affected communities in Colombia. The findings offer valuable insights for enhancing community-based mental health & primary care services. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reminder about this free online seminar that may be of interest. Pls do share! Addressing #Loneliness in #Schools