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Martin Caraher is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Food Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work involves a range of topics including Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices, Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Martin Caraher's recent publications include:

  • The corporate influence on food charity and aid: The "Hunger Industrial Complex" and the death of welfare, 2022, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Meal preparation and consumption before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: The relationship with cooking skills of Brazilian university students, 2022, Appetite
  • The role of foodbanks in the context of food insecurity: Experiences and eating behaviours amongst users, 2021, Appetite
  • Brazilian Cooking Skills Questionnaire evaluation of using/cooking and consumption of fruits and vegetables, 2021, Nutrition
  • How was the cooking skills and healthy eating evaluation questionnaire culturally adapted to Brazil?, 2021, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Caraher are:

  • Manuela Mika Jomori
  • Sinéad Furey
  • John Coveney
  • Ricardo Teixeira Quinaud
  • Margaret D. Condrasky

Martin Caraher has published multiple studies in well-known venues such as:

  • Appetite
  • Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • British Journal of General Practice
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Best Publications

  • Systematic reviews of the evidence on the nature, extent and effects of food marketing to children. A retrospective summary

    Georgina Cairns;Kathryn Angus;Gerard Hastings;Martin Caraher

  • Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society

    Tim Lang;David Barling;Martin Caraher

  • The state of cooking in England: the relationship of cooking skills to food choice

    Martin Caraher;Paul Dixon;Tim Lang;Roy Carr‐Hill

  • The impact of a community-based food skills intervention on cooking confidence food preparation methods and dietary choices – an exploratory trial

    Wendy L Wrieden;Annie S Anderson;Pat J Longbottom;Karen Valentine

  • Domestic Cooking and Food Skills: A Review

    Laura McGowan;Martin Caraher;Monique Raats;Fiona Lavelle

  • Is there a culinary skills transition? Data and debate from the UK about changes in cooking culture

    Tim Lang;Martin Caraher

  • Barriers and facilitators to cooking from 'scratch' using basic or raw ingredients: A qualitative interview study

    Fiona Lavelle;Laura McGowan;Michelle Spence;Martin Caraher

  • Public health nutrition and food policy.

    Martin Caraher;John Coveney

  • Learning cooking skills at different ages: a cross-sectional study

    Fiona Lavelle;Michelle Spence;Lynsey Hollywood;Laura McGowan

  • Taxing food: implications for public health nutrition.

    Martin Caraher;Gill Cowburn

  • Access to healthy foods: part I. Barriers to accessing healthy foods: differentials by gender, social class, income and mode of transport

    Martin Caraher;Paul Dixon;Tim Lang;Roy Carr-Hill

  • Joined-up food policy? : the trials of governance, public policy and the food system

    David Barling;Tim Lang;Martin Caraher

  • Food, Social Policy and the Environment : Towards a New Model

    Tim Lang;David Barling;Martin Caraher

  • Confident, fearful and hopeless cooks: Findings from the development of a food-skills initiative

    Martine Stead;Martin Caraher;Wendy Wrieden;Patricia Longbottom

  • Access to healthy foods: part II. Food poverty and shopping deserts: what are the implications for health promotion policy and practice?:

    Tim Lang;Martin Caraher

  • The development and validation of measures to assess cooking skills and food skills

    Fiona Lavelle;Laura McGowan;Lynsey Hollywood;Dawn Surgenor

  • The influence of socio-demographic, psychological and knowledge-related variables alongside perceived cooking and food skills abilities in the prediction of diet quality in adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

    Laura McGowan;Gerda K. Pot;Gerda K. Pot;Alison M. Stephen;Fiona Lavelle

  • Can't cook, won't cook: A review of cooking skills and their relevance to health promotion

    Martin Caraher;Tim Lang

  • When chefs adopt a school? An evaluation of a cooking intervention in English primary schools

    Martin Caraher;Annie Seeley;Michelle Wu;Susan Lloyd

  • UK print media coverage of the food bank phenomenon: from food welfare to food charity?

    Rebecca Wells;Martin Caraher

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Lang
Tim Lang City, University of London
Moira Dean
Moira Dean Queen's University Belfast
Monique Raats
Monique Raats University of Surrey
John Coveney
John Coveney Flinders University
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Paul Ward
Paul Ward Torrens University Australia
Martine Stead
Martine Stead University of Stirling
Michael .W. Calnan
Michael .W. Calnan University of Kent
Aleck Ostry
Aleck Ostry University of Victoria
Sarah J. Hardcastle
Sarah J. Hardcastle Sheffield Hallam University

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