Webinar with Dr Carl Walker: Managing Hunger Trauma in Community Food Support

About the event

This talk is based on a new piece of research just published called ‘Managing Hunger Trauma in Community Food Support: Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury, and Distress in Staff and Volunteers’. The session explores the psychological and ethical challenges faced by staff and volunteers in community food support organisations, given our status as an essential yet unofficial part of the UK welfare system. The report calls for urgent action given the scale of moral distress, moral conflicts and burnout in staff and volunteers, the national systemic failure of food policy and provision, growing food insecurity and its profound psychological toll on both those who use and provide community food support.

Dr Carl Walker is a chartered psychologist with over 25 years’ experience in academia, community engagement, community coproduction of wellbeing services and infrastructure, local authority strategic development and industry. His work involves leading action research projects on community wellbeing and coproducing community initiatives to address mental health and wellbeing needs.

Food Justice Fortnight 

Food Justice Fortnight is an annual series of events hosted by Feeding Bristol and its fantastic partner organisations. We help bring people from all over the city together to strengthen connections so we can continue to work together for Food Justice.

A range of events are designed to celebrate Bristol’s food communities, platform the incredible work happening to address food inequality in the city, and build resilience by connecting people, organisations and sectors through sharing food and our ideas about Food Justice.

This year’s Food Justice Fortnight theme is Food and Power.

This theme invites us to think about how food can be a powerful tool for justice and creating a more equal society. It can make us think about the tools communities need, and already have, to harness the power of food.

What helps individuals and communities feel empowered when it comes to food?

What food powers are unique to communities? How can we harness these more? What tools do we need? Join us at an event to share your ideas.