What young people eat and drink in the neighbourhood around schools is viewed as a significant public health challenge. Food and drink manufacturers and retailers aim to ensure their products are ‘within arm’s reach’ and young people’s diets are often nutritionally poor, with levels of obesity still causing concern.

Is the school neighbourhood – the availability and accessibility of food/drink – to blame? What factors are linked with young people’s food and drink ‘choices’? This seminar, organised by the FoodNet and ReACH networks of CRIPACC at the University of Hertfordshire will explore these complex issues, using insights from recently completed research.

School Neighbourhoods and Young People’s Food Choices (a forthcoming Food Research Collaboration Briefing Paper), Jan Moorhouse, University of Hertfordshire Business School

What else do young people consume, if they consume sugar sweetened drinks? Laura Hamilton, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL

Energy drinks: Hype or hyper? Shelina Visram, Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University

To book a place and to reserve parking please email Julie Mace j.mace@herts.ac.uk; For further information please contact Dr Wendy Wills w.j.wills@herts.ac.uk