An Ethnographic, Multi-Method Interview Dataset in Collaboration With a Community-Based Organisation in a Devolved Nation in the UK, 2021-2023

This is a PhD qualitative dataset. The thesis explored experiences of, and community-responses to, food insecurity.

Purpose of Data Collection: The thesis explored experiences of, and community-responses to, food insecurity.

Aims of Project: To generatively understand how community-based food hubs respond to food insecurity; to explore how experiences of food insecurity (may) impact on understandings and practices of sustainability and ethical consumption.

Content Note: The transcripts discuss content that readers may find upsetting. Please use your own discretion when working with the dataset. Themes such as trauma, hunger, substance misuse, violence, suicide, and abuse are discussed.

Participant Sample: A combination of snowball and targeted sampling was undertaken to gain various perspectives from people who occupied different roles, such as consumer, volunteer, or staff.

Data Collection Methods: Data was ethnographically generated in an urban city in a devolved nation in the UK. Informed consent was reached through consent forms, informal chats, and ongoing communications pre- and post-interviews for a year after the interviews to ensure withdrawal, if required, was possible.

Ethical Approval was granted by the University of [university name] Ethics Committee (Reference 400200066). In additional to the University’s procedural ethics requirements, I also developed a collaborative ethics document with participants.