Idea: policies that do good things instead of bad things

Our team is now a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Promotion of Healthy & Sustainable Diets. Which is pretty cool (well, I think it is anyway).

I've got a PhD studentship being advertised on 'Who is shaping healthy and sustainable policies in UK cities?' Stipend + funded UK home fees + training and conference budget. Please share with anyone you think would be interested, or get in touch with me directly! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Exciting news! The @who.int has designated our Sustainable Healthy Food Group a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Promotion of Healthy & Sustainable Diets 🎉 It'll be led by @jessicarenzella.bsky.social & Prof Mike Rayner from @oxpop.bsky.social, working closely with @petescarbs.bsky.social.

Annual UK retail sales for ALL milkshakes (most of which don't have enough sugar to be included in new sugar tax): 174 million L. Annual UK retail sales of Red Bull, Coca-Cola and Monster (high sugar, gov considered raising tax levels but didn't): 935 million L.

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Excited to share that our research group is advertising 2 DPhil projects for 2026 entry. We’d love to hear from prospective applicants! shorturl.at/I6SrW *FUNDED* shorturl.at/lh4tB *Successful apps eligible for uni funding* @hannahforde.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social @petescarbs.bsky.social

We ran deliberative forums in Glasgow & Bridlington all about food subsidies & taxes to make healthy & sustainable food more affordable. Read our findings in our latest article! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

New @jessicarenzella.bsky.social! Workshops w/Newham residents to identify ways to improve diets “…although the implementation of interventions in different areas may require tailoring, the focus of interventions to tackle the determinants of unhealthy diets could be similar across neighbourhoods.”

New study led by @jessicarenzella.bsky.social that used online Group Model Building workshops with Newham residents to map areas for action to create healthier diets Full paper here: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Another new Research Associate post available working on our new UKRI research hub! This post is at Strathclyde with the excellent @profkatsmith.bsky.social and @e-c-hill.bsky.social

Out just now, this is now explicit guidance in the National Planning Policy Framework! This will be a huge help for councils wanting to create healthy places, reducing the scope for costly legal challenges from fast food companies. #HealthyPlaceShaping www.gov.uk/government/p...

The CMO's annual report highlights health challenges & opportunities for people living in cities. We need to: ▶️make eating healthily an option for all ▶️⬇️air pollution ▶️address mental health needs ▶️improve access to sexual health services www.gov.uk/government/p...

I'm totally delighted about this news. Follow @hannahforde.bsky.social for excellent research on marketing policies for healthy sustainable diets over the next few years.

Want to keep up with the latest on economics, politics, sociology, biodiversity, the environment, and much, much more from the University of Oxford? Check out our starter pack of departments, programmes and research groups from across the Social Sciences Division. go.bsky.app/E2yvAor

UK Food & Health Policy, from @alexrosecharity.bsky.social go.bsky.app/G3WVEHW

hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!

LEAP (Livestock, Environment and People) conference registration is live! Always a great day with great food. To find out more about all things LEAP visit www.leap.ox.ac.uk/home.

For our next Bradford Hill Seminar Professor Sir Michael Marmot will join us to discuss social justice and health equity. 🗓️When: Wed 28 February, 1 PM (UK) 🌍Online Free registration at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e84894...

Come and join the teaching team for our MPhil in Population Health Sciences! We're looking for someone with knowledge of epidemiology, biostatistics or infectious disease modelling and experience of programming in R / R Studio. Closing date 15 Jan jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44441/

I was an author on a paper in the BMJ that was retracted recently. We found an error in the original analysis, informed the journal, and then started a long (long) process to correct the scientific record. Here's a link to an excellent blog about that process.

So many excellent colleagues here in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group moving to Bluesky (inspired by early adopter @petescarbs.bsky.social obvs) - welcome @ashakaur.bsky.social @jessicarenzella.bsky.social @elisabecker.bsky.social 👋 and I'm sure more to follow!