Michelle Thomas is a Post Doctoral Research Associate for Public Health at the University of Reading and a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include understanding who is at risk of experiencing food insecurity in the UK, and the impact this has on diet and health outcomes, she recently published “Food insecurity amongst universal credit claimants: the benefits and nutrition study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study” DOI: 10.1007/s00394-025-03596-y