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Fairley Le Moal

(She/Her)
Chercheure associée en sociologie au Centre Max Weber UMR 5283, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Dr. Fairley Le Moal is an Associate Researcher in Sociology at the Centre Max Weber UMR 5283 (France).

She investigates the practices and experiences of family mealtimes in middle and upper-class households, looking into food socialisations, family relationships, emotion management and power dynamics. Her results shed light on the work of everyday family mealtimes, and the contradictory imperatives family members face – particularly mothers – when it comes to eating together and maintaining health within the family, which end up reproducing gender inequalities at home.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Post-doctoral research officer, Flinders University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  • 2019–2022
    Doctoral student, Institut Paul Bocuse Research Centre

Education

  • 2023 
    Flinders University, Ph.D in Philosophy
  • 2022 
    Université Lumière Lyon 2, Ph.D in Sociology
  • 2016 
    Université Lumière Lyon 2, M.A. in Anthropology

Publications

  • 2021
    Beyond the Normative Family Meal Promotion: A Narrative Review of Qualitative Results about Ordinary Domestic Commensality., Le Moal, F., Michaud, M., Hartwick-Pflaum, C. A., Middleton, G., Mallon, I., & Coveney, J. (2021). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063186
  • 2020
    What can families gain from the family meal? A mixed-papers systematic review., Middleton, G., Golley, R., Patterson, K., Le Moal, F., & Coveney, J. (2020). Appetite, 153, 104725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104725