The Family Meals Collective

About The Family Meals Collective

The Family Meals Collective was founded in 2023 by four early career researchers looking to connect and collaborate with others working in the space of family meals.

The Collective provides opportunities for members to receive and give peer support, share and ignite ideas, and collaborate on Family Meal research. Our Collective consists of doctoral students, early career researchers and experienced researchers from across the globe.

Aim

To provide opportunity for purposeful and meaningful collaborative action in research related to family meals.

Vision

To bring together like-minded researchers working in the space of family meals. To bolster connections, ignite ideas and inspiration, provide a platform for sharing current work and foster future collaboration.

The Family Meals Collective Directors

Eloise Litterbach, PhD

Dr Eloise Litterbach is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD). Eloise completed her PhD in 2023 at Deakin University’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN). Her PhD research explored screen use during shared mealtimes in families with young children. Eloise has worked on nutrition, physical activity and diabetes related research projects, since 2012. Her main research interests include exploring reducing diabetes and weight related stigmas, type 2 diabetes risk reduction, family mealtimes as a health promotion opportunity, family and individual level behaviour change, a life course perspective to health, Consumer and Community Involvement and qualitative research methods. Please reach out to Eloise if you would like to connect.

Georgia Middleton, PhD

Dr Georgia Middleton is a Research Fellow within Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute. An Accredited Practicing Dietitian with a background in public health nutrition, Georgia’s research focuses on community nutrition, food insecurity, and social and cultural aspects of food, with a special interest in shared eating occasions, especially family meals. Georgia specialises in qualitative research methods and she has lead qualitative investigations on community health programs, research interventions, and public health initiatives and systems. Her passion is understanding how we can better support parents food provisioning practices to nourish themselves and their children without added burden, pressure or guilt.