RE-FRESH: Next Generation is thrilled to launch an innovative series of best practice guides for conducting healthy food retail research.
These newly released “how to” resources fill a critical gap by providing a roadmap for researchers, health promotion practitioners, retailers and anyone else involved in planning, conducting, evaluating, or communicating healthy food retail research.
Responding to the lack of formal guidance for high-quality, rigorous research in this rapidly evolving field, multi-disciplinary experts from the RE-FRESH and RE-FRESH: Next Generation Centres of Research Excellence developed the 16 comprehensive guides — providing the tools and insights needed to generate high-quality evidence and report it consistently, driving meaningful improvements in the healthiness of food retail environments.
Each guide has been peer reviewed by content experts from Australia and internationally, with a recently published summary of the series in Obesity Reviews describing the process involved.
Deakin Distinguished Professor Anna Peeters, who led RE-FRESH from 2018 to 2023 when the project began, emphasised the importance of these guides.
“These guides are an exciting and much-needed resource to guide effective evidence-based approaches to conducting healthy food retail research into the future,” she said.
“It is a credit to our dedicated researchers to have filled the critical gap, and to be sharing the kind of insights that can only be gained from real-life experience in the field.”
For more information
Visit the ‘Best Practice Guides’ project page for background information on this project and to access the individual guides.
Read the journal article for details on the development and peer-review process of these guides.
