Food Security for Equitable Futures

Lancaster Asia Area Research Group (LAARG) Reading Group June 2023 Date: Monday, 26th June Time: 2.30 - 3.30pm Venue: Online on MS Teams This session is open for all to attend. Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be leading an open discussion on the reading by Ajantha Subramanian called ‘Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics […]

Dr Swayamshree Mishra will be presenting a talk on 'Food, education, and aspirations: An intra-household narrative analysis of the mid-day meal scheme in India' on 26th Oct at the University of Oxford. This is a hybrid event, open for all to attend. You can join on zoom. Details https://talks.ox.ac.uk/.../aa40d3f0-e262-4a55-bb20.../ Free seminar, but registration is required […]

Call for papers on Food environments and health is LIVE NOW. You can find more details on the link here. Our very own Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann is part of the guest editorial team, and will be editing this Special Collection from BMC Medicine on food environments and their impact on public health.

Roundtable with senior academics including our very own Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann at the Politics and Practices of Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice at School Of The Arts Library - University of Liverpool, Liverpool.

Project team presenting at British Sociological Association - Virtual Annual Conference 2024: Crisis, Continuity and Change Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled - What a ‘Good Mother’ Eats : Food Choices, Sacrifices and the Politics of Provisioning. This paper discusses how socially constructed ideals of a 'good mother' affect women's daily choices, […]

Project team will be presenting at the British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024, LSE, UK Dr Ankita Rathi will be discussing her paper titled 'Food Insecurity, Labour Precarity, and Debt in India Links between Debt and Social Reproduction' in the upcoming BJS conference. Dr Swayamshree Mishra will be discussing her paper titled 'Research with […]

Project team presenting at Population Association of America (PAA 2024), Annual Meeting Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled - Understanding the demographics of food insecurity: A praxis-oriented reflexive approach . The paper questions the focus on objectivity in demographic research and suggests methods to generate data that is closer to the lived realities and […]

Project team presenting at European Population Conference Dr Charumita Vasudev will be presenting the paper titled  'Understanding the Demographics of Food Insecurity: A Praxis-Oriented Reflexive Approach' at European Population Conference (EPC) 2024 in Edinburgh on 13 June.  

Social justice and development in a polarising world rights and representation; redistribution and restoration; reproduction and production Our very own Dr Rathi presented her paper titled 'Food Insecurity, labour precarity and Debt in India: Links between Debt and Social Reproduction' at DSA conference. You can find session details here⬇️ https://www.devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2024/programme/#14874   

European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) Conference in Antwerp Dr Charumita Vasudev will be presenting the paper : What a ‘Good Mother’ Eats: Food Choices, Sacrifices and the Politics of Provisioning at ESHMS conference.