Project shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s Community Partnership Award

Green Templeton congratulates Research Fellow Shobhana Nagraj and colleagues on being shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor’s Community Partnership Award 2024.

The project, ‘Tackling childhood malnutrition in Oxfordshire: From Grassroots to Policy Actions’ grew out of a project funded as part of the Sheila Kitzinger Programme in 2021 on addressing childhood malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The collaboration has included Principal Sir Michael Dixon, Somerville College Principal Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, Good Food Oxfordshire’s Fiona Steel, Oxfordshire County Council’s Claire Gray, Fran Bennett from the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Annie Davy from Flo’s – The Place in the Park, Cowley.

It has formed reciprocal community partnerships, bringing together multiple stakeholders in two roundtable meetings, to take a Whole Systems Approach to tackling child food poverty and childhood malnutrition in Oxfordshire.

Shobhana said of making the shortlist,

‘It has been an absolute honour for us to be shortlisted for a VC Award! Our community partnership highlights what a small group of like-minded people can do, and the wonderful cross-sectoral work that is needed to address the inequalities on our doorstep in Oxfordshire. We hope it will inspire future collaborations between the University and Community groups!’