Food For Life Partnership Evaluation
Lead Researchers: Adrian Morley, Kevin Morgan
The Food for Life Partnership is a five-year Lottery-funded initiative that aims to transform food culture in schools and communities across England. Led by the Soil Association in partnership with the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust. Brass is part of the official strategic evaluation of the programme along with researchers at the University of the West of England.
The team is evaluating the Food for Life Partnership programme against three ‘outcome commitments’ to the Lottery, as well as a set of wider programme objectives. This involves a continuous engagement in programme evaluation over the five years of the programme, with biannual (or more frequent as needed) reports to the Food for Life Partnership management group.
The overall aims of this work is to evaluate the impact of the programme on participating schools and their communities. The two main roles this evaluation are:
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Interpretation and quality control of programme-wide data. This data is being collated by programme delivery staff, and by participating schools, and recorded on the bespoke FFLP database & audit log.
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Data collection & interpretation through more in-depth case study enquiries, both thematic and flagship community-specific.
Researchers from Brass are focusing on the food sourcing and the school kitchen environment aspects of the programme as well as contributing to the overall development of the evaluation programme.
Highlighted Outputs
Morgan K and Morley A (2011) Researching the Public Plate. Paper presented at the Brass Conference ‘Researching Food Sustainability; reflections, challenges and the future agenda’, Cardiff.
Click here to go to the official website of the Food for Life Partnership.
Back to Public Plate theme page.
