Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Health, University College Cork
My research centres on social and commercial determinants of health, especially in relation to unhealthy diets and food systems. In particular, I use resources from philosophy, public health, medicine and other disciplines to examine fatness/obesity as a cultural, social and political phenomenon.
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