Birmingham Museums Trust
Birmingham Museums Trust has published a new report that reveals how community food stories and museum collections can be powerful tools for promoting healthier eating and tackling food inequalities in the city. We were briefed with designing this report as a digital PDF with no existing templates and only basic brand guidelines so had full freedom with the layout design.
Using Oral Histories: A Methodology for Public Health Advocacy by Sophie Beckett, public health research officer at Birmingham Museums Trust, demonstrates how oral histories can capture lived experiences around food, improve food literacy and help to create more relevant, inclusive approaches to health promotion.
Key findings in the report show that:
- oral histories can highlight the structural and cultural barriers and facilitators to healthy eating in Birmingham, bridging local voices to policy level strategy.
- revisiting historic oral history positions these resources as strategic public health tools, by aligning food-related heritage with contemporary health priorities.
- oral histories can serve as dynamic tools for food literacy, emotional engagement and behaviour change.
Find out more on their website & read the report here
