Alison Booth

Biographic Data

ID3652279
NAMEAlison Booth
GIVEN NAMESAlison
FAMILY NAMEBooth
SIGNATUREBOOTH A
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0001-7138-6295
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Evaluation of Sri Lankan secondary school food literacy curricula using a mixed-methods approach

    Poornima Sujeewa Rathnayake, Janandani Nanayakkara et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2026

    Purpose Food literacy is key to lifelong healthy eating and sustainable choices. Yet, the topics and extent of its coverage in secondary school curricula remain unclear. This study aimed to identify essential food literacy components and assess their current level of integration. Design/methodology/approach This four-phase mixed-method study included: (1) a scoping review to identify food literacy components, (2) expert validation using the Fuzzy…

  • Australian settlement workers’ use of food security information resources with refugee clients: A qualitative exploration

    Open AccessJulie Maree Wood, Alison L Booth et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2026

    Objective: Refugees are susceptible to food insecurity. In high-income countries (HIC), settlement workers (SW) provide information, including food security information resources, to newly arrived refugees. Australia has a range of resources, but their use in settlement work is unknown. This study’s aims were to explore SW’s resource use with refugee clients. Design: This descriptive, qualitative study explored SW’s perceptions regarding resource…

  • A mixed-method study of parents’ views of food and nutrition in Australian primary schools

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2024

    Purpose Schools have long been perceived as an ideal setting to support the healthy eating behaviours of children. The aim of the study was to examine the views of Australian primary school parents regarding school food and nutrition, including education, practices and policy. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted among 787 parents in March 2021, which included closed and open-ended questions. Findings The results indicated t…

  • Food and nutrition information requirements of Australian primary school parents

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To explore what Australian primary school parents want to learn about food and nutrition to improve their children’s eating behaviours, as well as the associations between parents’ personal and demographic characteristics and their views regarding their food and nutrition knowledge needs. Design: An online nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2021 using a mixed-methods approach. Logistic regression analysis was utilised t…

  • Australian adults cooked more and tried new recipes during Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns

    Open AccessClaire Margerison, Gozde Aydin et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 1References: 44

    The lockdowns and restrictions due to COVID-19 caused changes in both food accessibility and availability for people around the globe resulting in changes in food habits and behaviours. To enable a better public health response to the next pandemic, lessons must be learnt from this most recent emergency. This study aimed to examine self-reported changes in food habits and behaviours, of Australian adults during COVID-19 restrictions in 2020. A cr…

  • Parental support for free school lunches in Australian primary schools: Associated factors and perceived barriers

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: (1) To explore the feasibility of such programmes in Australia, this study examined parents’ views on free school lunch provision. (2) To examine the associations between parents’ demographic and personal characteristics and their support for free universal school lunches. Design: An online cross-sectional survey of parents. Setting: Australia, April 2021. Participants: Seven hundred and eighty-seven parents took the survey. They had a…

  • Essential food and nutrition knowledge and skills for primary school children: Australian parents' opinions

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2022

    Purpose This paper examines the views of Australian primary school parents regarding the food and nutrition education (FNE) curriculum. Associations with personal values (Universalism and Hedonism) and demographic measures were also explored. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted among 787 parents in March 2021. Parents rated the importance of 17 FNE topics. They were also asked about their support for six curriculum improvem…

  • Parents’ Communication with Teachers about Food and Nutrition Issues of Primary School Students

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Parents and teachers have a major influence in the formation of primary school children's eating behaviours. Although the cooperation of parents and teachers has frequently been recommended in the promotion of healthy eating habits among primary school children, little is known about the communication between these two groups regarding food- and nutrition-related issues. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with primary sch…

  • Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: Parents' perspectives on why, when and how

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2022

    We examined Australian parents' opinions of primary school food and nutrition education (FNE) via a cross‐sectional survey that collected quantitative and qualitative data. Most parents agreed that primary schools should teach FNE, starting at either the first or the second year of primary school and delivered weekly or fortnightly for approximately 1–2 h. The majority of parents believed that FNE could be incorporated into several school subject…

  • Enough time for lunch? The duration and governance of lunch eating times in Australian primary schools: A mixed-methods study

    Open AccessMelissa Burton, Julie Maree Wood et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022References: 66

  • How young adults in Australia classify foods as healthy and unhealthy

    Open AccessKrupa Thammaiah Kombanda, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 3References: 44

  • But Why Always the Novel? Midrange Reading Samples of Persons and Texts

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothARTICLENew Literary History2022

    Literary studies, whether digital or analog, have overemphasized the novel, itself an example of the problem of misrepresenting a more complex system through favored individuals or reductive samples. Digitized access to more of the published English-language texts over centuries enables research on overlooked forms beyond boundaries of genre, nation, and period, and yet "distant reading" or algorithmic textual analysis continues to favor the port…

  • Trade Unions and the Welfare of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China

    Open AccessAlison L Booth, Alison Booth et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2022References: 37

    Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from workplaces without union presence or with inactive unions, both union-covered non-members and union members in workplaces with active unions earn higher monthly income, are more likely to have a written…

  • Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: Parents' views

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Alison Booth et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2021

    Purpose Primary schools provide continuous, intensive contact with large numbers of children starting from a young age, thus providing an appropriate setting for the promotion of healthy eating through food and nutrition education (FNE). This qualitative study explores the views of Australian primary school parents about FNE in primary schools. Design/methodology/approach In total, 19 parents of primary school children from Victoria participated …

  • Literature Counts: The Feelings of Overwhelmed

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothARTICLENOVEL A Forum on Fiction2021

    Doubtless, reader, you are overwhelmed by what you might or should be reading now. Maurice S. Lee's Overwhelmed should be high on your list. Though it might not compete with Robinson Crusoe as your “desert island” choice, it does afford “attentive, interpretive, pleasurable reading” (19) for practiced students of literature in English, who will see themselves mirrored in Lee's occasional, frank self-reflections. This transatlantic study of the te…

  • Parents’ and teachers’ views of the promotion of healthy eating in Australian primary schools

    Open AccessGozde Aydin, Claire Margerison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Australian primary schools demonstrate some useful efforts to promote healthy eating among children. However, there are numerous facilitators and barriers which impact on the promotion of healthy eating. These factors need to be addressed in order to develop healthy eating habits further among elementary students. These results provide directions for policymakers and school managers, as they point to the areas that need to be improved to assist t…

  • The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson

    Alison BoothARTICLEBiography2021

    Reviewed by: The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson Alison Booth (bio) The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums Nicola J. Watson Oxford University Press, 2020, 352 pp. ISBN 9780198847571, $41.95 hardcover. No aspect of the public's response to literature is more explicitly, even obsessively, derived from life writing than a writer's house museum. Nicola J. Watson's latest of her several authoritative studies of…

  • Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

    Open AccessAlison Booth, Elliott Fan et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2019Cited by: 13References: 38

    Our Beijing‐based laboratory experiment investigated gender differences in competitive choices across different birth‐cohorts experiencing – during their crucial developmental‐age – different institutions and social norms. To control for general time trends, we use Taipei counterpart subjects with identical original Confucian traditions. Our findings confirm that exposure to different institutions/norms during crucial developmental‐ages significa…

  • Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothARTICLEBiography2019

    Reviewed by: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes Alison Booth (bio) Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum Kathryn Hughes Johns Hopkins UP, 2018. xvii + 440 pages. ISBN 978-1421425702, $29.95 hardcover. The cover and title of this book promise something along the lines of bodice-ripping neo-Victorian fiction, or, since it comes from an academic press, a scholar's rediscovery of perver…

  • Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

    Open AccessAlison Booth, Eiji YamamuraARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2018

    In speedboat racing in Japan, men and women compete under the same conditions and are randomly assigned to mixed-sex or single-sex groups for each race. We use a sample of over 140,000 individual-level records to examine how male-dominated circumstances affect women’s racing performance. Our fixed-effects estimates reveal that women’s race time is slower in mixed-sex than all-women races, whereas men’s race time is faster in mixed-sex than men-on…

  • Feminism

    Open AccessAlison L Booth, Alison BoothARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018Cited by: 1

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  • Men and Women of the Time

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothCHAPTERLife Writing and Victorian Culture2017

    This chapter draws some interconnections among men and women of letters in biographical collections published in London, specifically those that portrayed literary homes. The Halls serve as well as any of their contemporaries to illustrate the apportionment of recognition among living or deadmen and women, as well as the customs of prosopography of writers, particularly the desire to locate a literary home. Victorian prosopographies of womenand m…

  • Social prescribing: Less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence

    Open AccessLiz Bickerdike, Alison Booth et al.ARTICLEBMJ Open2017

  • Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothBOOKHomes and Haunts2016

  • The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover

    Alison L Booth, Alison BoothCHAPTERHomes and Haunts2016

    The focus of this chapter is the classic biographical controversy and house museum associated with Thomas Carlyle and Jane Carlyle, arising after 1880. The history of this remarkably intact museum emerges in guidebooks, catalogues, and homes and haunts writing across the decades, increasingly shifting attention to the wife, servants, and everyday conditions of the household. Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf’s father, helped establish the museum in …