Meet Martina Galler from Switzerland who soon will leave a fixed position in the food industry to do a PhD as a part of Edulia. Her project will focus on new methodologies for studying intrinsic and extrinsic parameters influencing children’s (preadolescents) food choice. Please, tell us about your background (subject of master thesis, where from, age)…
Ana has just started on her way to PhD at Universidad de la República in Uruguay, where she will take the ESR11 position in Edulia, working on development of sugar-reduced dairy products for pre-adolescents. Read about her expectations here. Please, tell us about your background Hello! I am Ana Velazquez (30) from Mexico. One of…
Julia is about to start as Edulia position ESR3 at the University of Florence in Italy. Her research will focus on The role of emotions, personality traits and sensory sensitivity in food preferences in pre-adolescent children, in WP2. She will work closely with Ervina (ESR2) Please, tell us about your background My name is Julia…
Project description ESR5 – Carina Mueller Objectives: To review strategies to modify sweet taste perception and hedonic evaluation (and intake) in young children To assess the role of parental restriction rules on liking, preferences and intake of sugary foods and beverages in children To assess the role of sweet taste exposure on food acceptance…
Ervina will soon move from the million city of Jakarta in Indonesia to the small village Ås in Norway for the ESR2 position in Edulia. Her research will be tightly linked to WP2, she will focus on the importance of sensory sensitivity for food perception among pre-adolescent children and we expect a close collaboration with Julia (ESR3) who…
Here we introduce you to the last of the ESRs who will work on the group of pre-adolescents. Meet Tija Rageliene from Lithuania, who will do her PhD in Aarhus, Denmark, on peer and sibling influence on children’s healthy eating behavior. Please, tell us about your background My name is Tija Ragelienė. I came to…
Eurosense was held this year in early September in beautiful Verona. We digged into the conference programme to get a glimpse of current research subjects on children. Overall the conference included 7 oral presentations, 4 flash-poster or workshop oral presentations and 19 posters, totaling 30 communications with focus on children. Non-surprisingly, over half of these…
Nofima’s activities on children and sensory science was presented prime time in Norwegian television, on the show “Norge nå” Challenges when doing research with children Children are challenging research objects. They cannot focus for longer periods of time, they cannot read, they don’t want to sit still, but to play, and are not always good…
We are recruiting 11 Marie-Curie PhD POSITIONS in the project EDULIA, on Children healthy eating. The program is part of an ITN-ETN Marie Curie Training Network, funded by the EU through Horizon 2020. Edulia is a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial European Training and Research Network with a global reach. Our network will train 11 innovative and…
WP3: Methods Development (of sensory perception and affective responses to foods) is a central WP in the project, as it will feed back to the other WPs in terms of methods application. It will develop age-appropriate data collection methods dealing with sensory perception, affective and emotional responses to foods, parenting feeding, and statistical methods to…