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Publications
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- In October 2014, CFHS commissioned a group of research scientists to consider questions of food insecurity/poverty in Scotland. The main aim of the research was to ...
- In 2014 Community Food and Health Scotland/NHS Health Scotland commissioned a realist review of community cooking skills activities run by community initiatives and agencies. The ...
- In early 2014, CFHS worked with Evaluation Support Scotland to commission a short evidence review of the literature on the ways in which the third ...
- This publication focuses on the work of community food initiatives working with older people and will be of use to community food initiatives in building ...
- This research looks at the impact of the Scottish Grocers Healthy Living Programme's training and resources on community retailers selling fruit and vegetables. The research ...
- This short report provides a summary of research commissioned by CFHS that studied the impact of cooking skills on families.
- This report sets out the findings from mapping the contributions of the community and voluntary sector to improving maternal and infant nutrition in Scotland. The ...
Research and evaluation
CFHS commissions research and evaluation in order to:
We share our findings with community food initiatives (CFIs), policymakers and key stakeholders to promote learning and improve practice.
We help CFIs build their capacity to self-evaluate by offering learning opportunities, and support them in commissioning their own research and evaluation. We also evaluate our own work and funding initiatives.
Our plan for 2019/20
To support community-led research on “Food insecurity, diet and obesity” with a partner organisation who works with the ethnic minority community.
News and updates
Food security, diet and obesity – community-led research
Cafes in communities
Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Cooking skills blog: Cooking skills research – Reasons to be cheerful, part one
Self-evaluation programme for community cafes
Guest blog – community-led research generates more than research knowledge
Community café self evaluation group – outcomes to evaluate impact
Cooking skills blog 29: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Guest blog: what’s the difference between ‘observation’ and ‘third party’?
Cooking skills blog 27: Cooking skills research: Are you more likely to cook if you have cooking skills?
Cooking skills Blog 26: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Using both questionnaires and observation as methods