Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Food poverty and food insecurity; school feeding programmes.
Willing to speak to media
Greta Defeyter is Professor of Developmental Psychology in the department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing. Greta is the founder and the Director of the ‘Healthy Living’ Lab at Northumbria University and has spent the last 20 years researching food insecurity, social injustice, school feeding programmes and holiday hunger programmes in the UK. She has received funding from multiple sources and has published numerous papers on school breakfast clubs, school food programmes and holiday hunger programmes in the UK. She is now a recognised expert in this area and in 2015, she was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her research with children living in areas of social and economic deprivation. More recently, she joined a prestigious line up of award winners, including Jamie Oliver, by winning a Food Heroes Award from Sustain for her research on school breakfast clubs and holiday hunger programmes. In 2020 she was recognised, by the Big Issue, as one of the top 100 change makers for her research and policy impact on childhood food poverty in the UK. Greta has advised the DfE on the Holiday Activities and Food Progamme (HAF) and is a member of the British Psychological Society Expert Reference Group-From Poverty to Flourishing, a Subject Expert on the American Psychological Association’s-Equity Flattens the Curve Campaign, a civic commissioner on the Gateshead Poverty Truth Commission, an executive member of the North East Child Poverty Commission, a member of the Royal Society of Medicine Health and Food Council, and a trustee of Feeding Britain.
Greta is the founder and the Director of the ‘Healthy Living’ Lab at Northumbria University and has spent the last 20 years researching food insecurity, social injustice, school feeding programmes and holiday hunger programmes in the UK. She has received funding from multiple sources and has published numerous papers on school breakfast clubs, school food programmes and holiday hunger programmes in the UK.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education, PCAP
30 Jun 2004 → 31 Dec 2099
Award Date: 30 Jun 2004
Psychology, PhD
1 Sept 1999 → 31 Dec 2099
Award Date: 1 Sept 1999
Great North Air Ambulance
2019 → …
Family Gateway
2019 → …
Feeding Britain
2019 → …
The Ouseburn Learning Trust
2019 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Graham, P. (Speaker), Fothergill, M. (Speaker) & Defeyter, M. A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Defeyter, M. A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Defeyter, M. A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Atkins, L. (Speaker), Graham, P. (Speaker) & Defeyter, G. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Graham, P. (Speaker), Atkins, L. (Speaker) & Defeyter, G. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Charles, D. (PI), Defeyter, G. (CoI) & Namdeo, A. (CoI)
1/08/22 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
Defeyter, G. (PI), Yee, J. S. R. (CoI) & Spencer, N. (CoI)
1/08/22 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
Defeyter, G. (PI), Yee, J. S. R. (CoI) & Spencer, N. (CoI)
1/08/22 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
Defeyter, G. (PI), Yee, J. S. R. (CoI) & Spencer, N. (CoI)
1/08/22 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
Defeyter, G. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy, law and services
Defeyter, G. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy, law and services