Share your voice and help promote food justice in Ontario!
Exacerbated Hunger: Addressing Racialized Food Insecurity in the Era of COVID-19 (REB# 24-08-003) is seeking research participants to share their thoughts and experiences around racialized food insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is specifically interested in the perspectives of three communities: 1) food justice activists and organizers, 2) foodbank employees and volunteers, and 3) racialized community members who use, or have used, food aid services.
If you identify as one of the above groups and 1) have supported or accessed food aid services for at least three months in the last five years; 2) are 16 or older; 3) live in The Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area or Tri-Cities-Guelph (Central Southern Ontario); 4) can communicate in English; and 5) have access to the internet or a phone, please consider registering.
You will be asked to participate in an (approximately) 60-minute interview, which will likely take place over Zoom (but can be done by phone if needed). 3-4 interviewees from each group will also be invited to participate in an optional filmmaking workshop in the Spring of 2025. Depending on participants’ access needs and availability, the workshop will take place either in person during a three-day workshop in Toronto, the GTHA, or Guelph or in a combined online, in-person workshop format.
Interview participants will be provided with a $30 honorarium for their time. Workshop participants will be provided with a $140 honorarium, plus local travel costs (and additional travel costs for racialized food aid users).
If you are interested in the study, please complete the following form: https://forms.office.com/r/dzTXXcYYC4.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Naty Tremblay, Graduate Student Assistant, at natytrem@uoguelph.ca or Dr Jade Da Costa, Project lead, at jdacos02@uoguelph.ca.
Food is political. Food is Love. Food is the future.
The project is funded by SSHRC through their Insight Development Grant program.
