Here is preliminary program for the final Edulia conference, for more details on the conference, please follow this link Changes in the program may occur. Tuesday 21st June 0900 – 0930 Registration and Coffee/tea 0930 – 0945 Welcome Address from Coordinator and host institution. Paula Varela (Nofima, The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, Norway)…
November the 17th, Tija Rageliene (ESR9) defended her thesis “Peer, sibling and social media influence on preadolescent children’s healthy eating behaviour” at Arhus University (School of Business and Social Sciences Department of Management). Her research objective has been to explore the influence of peers, siblings, and social media on preadolescent children’s healthy eating behaviour. She…
Ervina (ESR2) defended recently her thesis entitled “Taste sensitivity and food liking in pre-adolescent children”. In this research she has investigated variability in taste sensitivity in pre-adolescent children and tried to link this to food liking. She as applied different tools for measuring taste sensitivity (taste responsiveness, detection and identification threshold as well as response…
Earlier this year Ervina (ESR2) and co-workers published a study on the relationship between taste responsiveness and food liking in pre-adolescents. Taste responsiveness is one of several methods for investigating differences in taste sensitivity, i.e. that different subjects perceive the same sample as more or less intense in a specific taste, for instance sweet or…
A big congratulation to Kaat Philippe who Friday 22.10.2021 defended her thesis in psychology. The thesis was entitled “Maternal and paternal feeding practices: links with young children’s eating behaviours and influencing factors. a systemic approach” A summary of her thesis, can be found here (both in English and French). Supervisors: Dr. Sandrine Monnery-Patris and Dr.…
On the 25th of October, Abigail Pickard defended her thesis “Spilling the beans: The development of conceptual knowledge about food and its links with food rejection in young children (3-7-years-old)” . She has investigated how cognitive mechanisms play a role in acceptance or rejecting foods. We congratulate on the excellent work, and wish her well…
From March until May 2020, a first strict lockdown took place in France to limit the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Schools were closed and working from home was enforced, which had a profound impact on families’ habits. ESR7, Kaat Philippe, and her colleagues conducted a study with 498 French families to investigate…
Last week, Ana Laura Velázquez defended her PhD as the first ESR in the Edulia consortium. The defense was digital and took place October 14th. The title of her thesis is “Strategies to reduce the sugar content of dairy products targeted at children” and was granted by Universidad de la República (Uruguay). We congratulate Ana…
Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published a paper in collaboration with her supervisors, Paula Varela, Tormod Næs, Kristian Hovde Liland and Gastón Ares. The study was conducted within the master thesis of Emma Mikkelsen in Martina’s project. The paper is open access in the Journal: Food Quality and Preferences. Automatic food decision making Food choices that…
Sofia De Rosso (ESR6) recently published a paper (open access) exploring practices, needs and determinants of information seeking of French parents regarding infant and young child feeding in the journal Public Health Nutrition. Previous studies have explored parental behaviors and feelings regarding infant and young child feeding (IYCF), and they demonstrated that most parents are…