{"id":1736,"date":"2025-12-11T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/food-systems-equality\/?page_id=1736"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:02:15","slug":"michelle-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/food-systems-equality\/michelle-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/food-systems-equality\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/Michelle-Thomas-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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. 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