CWIN in partnership with NHS Health Scotland and Community Food and Health (Scotland) took part in community-led research into food security. They explored participants’perceptions of food security (eating well) and …
Research and evaluation
Food Security for All – Community-Led Research
Publishers: Central & West Integration Network, Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Community Led – Good Food Research
This report describes an NHS-funded/CFHS-supported, community-led research project that explores the relevance of the issue of ‘food security’ to a range of adults, with different life experiences and current life …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Linwood Community Development Trust, NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, food poverty, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Food security, diet and obesity – community-led research
Central and West Integration Network were supported by CFHS/NHS Health Scotland last year to lead a community-led research project. The research explored the experiences of ethnic minority communities around food security, diet and obesity. Specifically, the …
Posted in CFHS updates, News, Research and consultations
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Research and evaluation
Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group realist evaluation (2016-2018), gathered information from 29 community cooking skills courses (attended by 75 adults -all of whom were managing on low-incomes and the majority …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog: Cooking skills research – Reasons to be cheerful, part one
Earlier this year, around 50 people, many who run or manage cooking skills activities came together to hear evidence about the impact of community cooking activities. They heard from Professor …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Self-evaluation programme for community cafes
Between August 2017 and March 2018 we worked with a small group of community cafes to look at self-evaluation. Together they developed a list of community cafe outcomes to reflect the range of …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Guest blog – community-led research generates more than research knowledge
Our guest blog is from Lesley Greenaway, a free-lance evaluator and consultant. She has a PhD in Participative Evaluation, and is committed to building capacity for research and evaluation. What is distinct …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Information provision, Research and evaluation
Community café self evaluation group – outcomes to evaluate impact
We have been working with a group of community cafes to look at self-evaluation. Together they have developed a list of community cafe outcomes to reflect the range of differences cafes can make for …
Posted in CFHS updates, News, Research and consultations
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 29: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Guest blog: what’s the difference between ‘observation’ and ‘third party’?
All members of our cooking skills study group are aiming to use a combination of three different evaluation sources to find out if their courses are ‘working’, by sourcing evaluation …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Finding out if your cooking skills courses are working
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Food security, diet and obesity – a community-led research project exploring the experiences of ethnic minority groups
This community-led research approach builds on a previous CWIN project exploring food security in black and ethnic minority (BME) people in Glasgow. They recruited and trained a team of 12 …