scholarly journals Preferences for menu labelling formats of young adults in Brazil and in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Carvalho de OLIVEIRA ◽  
Ana Carolina FERNANDES ◽  
Rossana Pacheco da Costa PROENÇA ◽  
Heather HARTWELL ◽  
Vanessa Mello RODRIGUES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Numerical Information ◽  
The United Kingdom

ABSTRACT Objective This pilot study was aimed at exploring preferences of young adults in two different contexts on restaurant menu labelling formats. Methods Five focus groups were conducted with 36 participants, two focus groups with 11 participants in Brazil and three focus groups with 25 in the United Kingdom. Themes originating from the content analysis of the transcriptions were organised around four possible menu labelling formats: 1) numerical information on calories; 2) numerical information on calories and nutrients; 3) traffic light system plus Guideline Daily Amounts; 4) food information with ingredients list plus highlighted symbols. Results In both countries, participants preferred the ingredients list plus symbols format, considered more comprehensive and useful to make an informed food choice. Organic food and vegetarian symbols were the ones considered most important to appear on restaurant menu labels with ingredients list. However, most participants in Brazil and in the United Kingdom rejected the information restricted to calories and calories plus nutrients formats, saying that these would not influence their own choices. Conclusion This is the first multicultural qualitative study exploring preferences of people living in different countries with different eating habits, but where menu labelling is voluntary. Results evidenced similarities in participants’ likes and dislikes for menu labelling formats in these two different contexts. Discussions showed participants in both countries prefer qualitative information than numerical information, suggesting that ingredients list and symbols provide information that people want to see on the menu.

“Women Are Cancer, You Shouldn’t Be Working in Sport”: Sport Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Sexism in Sport

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Aura Goldman ◽  
Misia Gervis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
The Impact

Though sexism has been recognized as problematic in sport, its impact on female sport psychologists in the United Kingdom has not yet been investigated. The purpose of this research was to explore the impact of sexism and its influence on practice. Four semistructured focus groups were conducted, comprising 11 sport psychologists who worked in the United Kingdom. Thematic analysis revealed four general themes: the environment, privileging masculinity, acts of sexism, and the feminine. Participants’ discourse suggests that female sport psychologists are impacted by sexism in their workplaces. Gendered power differentials, coupled with the low status of sport psychology within sport, exacerbated the challenges faced by female sport psychologists. This study contributes to making up for the dearth of research on the impact of sexism on sport psychologists. Suggestions are made with regard to implications for practice.

A Problem Shared? The Role of the Public in the Legitimation of Policy: A Case Study of Gendered Welfare Change in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Richards-Gray
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Disadvantaged Women ◽  
Welfare Change

Abstract This article argues that shared problematizations—shared political and public ways of thinking—legitimize policies and their outcomes. To support this argument, it examines the legitimation of gendered welfare reform in the recent U.K. context. Drawing on focus groups with the public, it provides evidence that the public’s problematization of welfare, specifically that reform was necessary to “make work pay” and “restore fairness”, aligned with that of politicians. It argues that the assumptions and silences underpinning this shared problematization, especially silences relating to the value and necessity of care, have allowed for welfare policies that have disadvantaged women.

scholarly journals The missing group? Situating transnational contacts in defamilisation research

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282094002
Author(s):  
Sam Wai Kam Yu ◽  
Liam Foster ◽  
Ruby Chui Man Chau
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Older People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Family ◽  
Chinese Older People

Defamilisation research is increasingly seen as an important component of studies of welfare and social work. It is concerned with people’s vulnerability to defamilisation risks, which are caused by insufficient opportunities for people to choose whether and how they participate in the family. Despite an increasing emphasis on defamilisation research, there has been insufficient attention given to how studies of transnational contacts contribute to defamilisation research. This article argues for the need to expand the scope of defamilisation research to incorporate the concept of ‘transnational contact-led strategies’ using evidence from focus groups with Chinese older people in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Survival patterns in teenagers and young adults with cancer in the United Kingdom: Comparisons with younger and older age groups

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (17) ◽  
pp. 2643-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Stark ◽  
David Bowen ◽  
Elaine Dunwoodie ◽  
Richard Feltbower ◽  
Rod Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Older Age ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Survival Patterns

Finishing Performance of Hill Lambs Fed Clover-Rich Baled Silage to Ukrofs Standards

1994 ◽  
Vol 1994 ◽  
pp. 130-130
Author(s):  
R Keatinge ◽  
W A Murray
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
Dry Matter Intake ◽  
Concentrate Supplementation ◽  
Grass Silage ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Low Nitrogen

Within conventional silage finishing systems, forage quality is critical to lamb performance and some concentrate feeding is generally required (Fitzgerald, 1987). Rate of finish may also be manipulated by increasing the concentrate component of the diet, particularly in the latter stages of the finishing period. For organic production however, the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS) limit concentrate supplementation to 40% of daily dry matter intake, and a flatter pattern of concentrate allocation is generally required. Where diets containing a high proportion of clover (more likely under an organic or low nitrogen system) are fed, improvements in lamb performance have been shown in grazing animals (Clark, 1988) and following ensiling (Vipond et al, 1992). The aim of this experiment was to assess the potential of high clover silage to finish hill lambs from the organic unit at ADAS Redesdale.One hundred and forty four approximately six month old Scottish Blackface wether lambs (mean liveweight 30.0 kg, se = 0.24) were housed off silage aftermath and assigned (in pens of twelve) to one of three treatments - grass silage plus 400 g concentrate (GH), high clover silage plus 400 g concentrate (CH) or high clover silage plus 200 g of mineralised barley (CL).

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