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According to some estimates, 1 in 3 students in Australia suffers from food insecurity. How are students thinking about and managing this problem?

University of Melbourne researchers Associate Professor Gyorgy Scrinis, Associate Professor Jane Dyson and Professor Craig Jeffrey teamed up with four student co-researchers, all featured in this podcast, to carry out research on student food insecurity and young people's agency.

Professor Craig Jeffrey interviewed the four student co-researchers to discuss what they learned from their own interviews with 40 food insecure students at the University of Melbourne about the challenges they have faced.

The students included both domestic and international, undergraduate and postgraduate students. The interviews were conducted in mid-2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, but students also discussed their experiences of food insecurity pre-COVID.

This research was funded by a University of Melbourne Student Services Fee Amenity Grant, a Social Science Research Council COVID Research Grant, and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.