Overview
Availability
- Dr Bonnie Searle is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Nutrition, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Children's mealtimes in ECEC
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Feeding practices in ECEC
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Child development
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Childhood nutrition
Works
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2024
Other Outputs
Why mealtimes matter: food provision and practices in childcare centres serving low-income communities.
Searle, Bonnie-Ria Estelle (2024). Why mealtimes matter: food provision and practices in childcare centres serving low-income communities.. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/7743da1
2023
Journal Article
A missed opportunity? Meal provision in early childhood education and care services in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage
Searle, Bonnie, Staton, Sally, Littlewood, Robyn, Bayliss, Olivia and Thorpe, Karen (2023). A missed opportunity? Meal provision in early childhood education and care services in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 28 (2), 362-371. doi: 10.1007/s10995-023-03849-4
2023
Journal Article
Poverty for lunch: a case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE
Searle, Bonnie, Cooke, Emma, Staton, Sally and Thorpe, Karen (2023). Poverty for lunch: a case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE. Children & Society: the international journal of childhood and children's, 38 (4), 1076-1094. doi: 10.1111/chso.12782
2023
Journal Article
Mealtimes in the context of poverty: comparison of ECEC services providing food and those requiring food provided from home
Searle, Bonnie, Staton, Sally, Littlewood, Robyn and Thorpe, Karen (2023). Mealtimes in the context of poverty: comparison of ECEC services providing food and those requiring food provided from home. Child: Care, Health and Development, 49 (6), 995-1005. doi: 10.1111/cch.13109
2023
Conference Publication
A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECEC
Searle, Bonnie, Cooke, Emma, Staton, Sally and Thorpe, Karen (2023). A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECEC. 31st EECERA Conference, Estoril, Portugal, 30 August – 2 September 2023.
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Meal provision in early childhood education and care programs: Association with geographic disadvantage, social disadvantage, cost, and market competition in an Australian population
Thorpe, Karen, Potia, Azhar Hussain, Searle, Bonnie, Van Halen, Olivia, Lakeman, Nicole, Oakes, Candice, Harris, Holly and Staton, Sally (2022). Meal provision in early childhood education and care programs: Association with geographic disadvantage, social disadvantage, cost, and market competition in an Australian population. Social Science & Medicine, 312 115317, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115317
2022
Other Outputs
KindyLinQ Program Pilot: Pilot evaluation report and executive summary
Staton, Sally, Pattinson, Cassandra, Houen, Sandy, Coles, Laetitia, Westwood, Emily, Cooke, Emma, Searle, Bonnie-Ria and Thorpe, Karen (2022). KindyLinQ Program Pilot: Pilot evaluation report and executive summary. Online: Evidence for Learning.
2022
Journal Article
Associations between food provision and feeding practices in socially disadvantaged childcare centres
Searle, Bonnie-Ria E., Staton, Sally S., Littlewood, Robyn and Thorpe, Karen (2022). Associations between food provision and feeding practices in socially disadvantaged childcare centres. Appetite, 169 105811, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105811
2020
Other Outputs
A market in mealtimes: social and economic factors associated with meal provision in Early Care and Education (ECE) services
Thorpe, Karen, Searle, Bonnie, Van Halen, Olivia, Lakeman, Nicole, Oakes, Candice, Harris, Holly and Staton, Sally (2020). A market in mealtimes: social and economic factors associated with meal provision in Early Care and Education (ECE) services. LCC Working Paper Series. 2020-25. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
2020
Journal Article
What children bring to the table: the association of temperament and child fussy eating with maternal and paternal mealtime structure
Searle, Bonnie-Ria E., Harris, Holly A., Thorpe, Karen and Jansen, Elena (2020). What children bring to the table: the association of temperament and child fussy eating with maternal and paternal mealtime structure. Appetite, 151 104680, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104680
2018
Journal Article
What's the fuss about? Parent presentations of fussy eating to a parenting support helpline
Harris, Holly A., Ria-Searle, Bonnie, Jansen, Elena and Thorpe, Karen (2018). What's the fuss about? Parent presentations of fussy eating to a parenting support helpline. Public Health Nutrition, 21 (8), 1520-1528. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017004049
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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