ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a study of the relationship between researchers and users in one of the Economic and Social Research Council's research programmes, The Nation's Diet". The programme was in two phases, with some projects in each phase. In project A the route to an eventual end-user is indirect. There are four studies in project B: a methodological one, two of diet changes among populations under stress, and the fourth an eight-week food-diary study of two occupational groups. Project K is studying decisions about meat purchase at the level of the household by statistical analysis of data from the Family Expenditure Survey and the National Food Survey. Project I is concerned with the media treatment of "food scares": why some issues about the health and safety of food receive publicity, whereas others do not. Project L is multidisciplinary, involving medicine and medical sociology.
