The Information Environment refers to the marketing and advertising of food.

The Food Environment Team projects in this research stream includes studies related to upstream food and nutrition policy influences on the information food environment and studies investigating children’s exposure to unhealthy food advertising in their local communities.

Contact: Contact the Food Environments Team at FET@ecu.edu.au

Current projects:

• HAP Health Advertising Project: Implementing WA Local Government policies to restrict unhealthy food advertising
• Exploring the impact of outdoor advertising through the eyes of children

Past projects:

• Childrens exposure to outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages near schools
• Measuring the teen-directed marketing power of outdoor advertisements near schools (Cancer Council Summer Scholarship, Gabby Wells 2022)
• Outdoor food advertising exposure during the whole journey to school
• Volume and Nature of outdoor food advertising near Perth Schools