King’s College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Groundswell explored experiences of Universal Credit (UC) to understand the welfare reform’s impact on people who are homeless,…
PHI|Lab Field Trip to Sainsbury’s Online Fulfilment Centre
For the start of 2020 we decided it would be good to get out of the office once in a while and go and see something interesting related to our…
We need to pay more attention to the longer term implications of food banking
The UK news this week has been dominated by reports that there are now more foodbanks in the UK than there are branches of McDonald’s. The issue of food poverty…
Sweet snacks vs sweet drinks – was SDIL badly targeted?
A recent study involving PHI|Lab‘s Laura Cornelsen and Richard Smith, published in the British Medical Journal modelled the effect of a 20% price increase on sweet snacks (chocolates, confectionery, biscuits)…
Should we have faith in ‘sin taxes’ to help tackle obesity crisis?
Last week Boris Johnson, our potential next Prime Minister, cast doubt on the effectiveness of health-related taxes on foods and beverages to help improve health and promised to put related…