integrated MSc Ph.D. student in Data Analytics and Society
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Inès François is undertaking an integrated Ph.D. and MSc at the University of Leeds in Data Analytics and Society to investigate children’s food choice behaviours, supervised by Dr. Hannah Ensaff and Dr. Matthew Homer, and in collaboration with an external partner, SchoolGrid. She has examined children’s food choices patterns from automatically collected school food data.
Her research interests are the physiological and psychological food choice determinants during the lifespan, especially in children.
Her previous projects were: a data study group investigating the impact of the UK’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy on consumers’ purchases of soft drinks (The Alan Turing Institute and Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, UK), the effect of contextual factors: the social atmosphere and the complexity of environment on toddlers’ food exploration (University of Portsmouth, UK), and the differences of sweet taste perception between people living with obesity and healthy people using gustatory evoked potential recordings (Center for Taste and Feeding Behaviour and the University Hospital in Dijon, France).