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