Dense City

2: Signs with a Side of Fries: Food Information Environment


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Today's guest is Alexander “AJ” Wray, who is a doctoral student in geography and environment at the University of Western Ontario, coordinating the Food Retail Environment Study for Health and Economic Resiliency (FRESHER) and ParkSeek projects for the Human Environments Analysis Lab. His research interests span the range of health, GIS, impact assessment, chronic disease prevention, and local policy. AJ recently received his Masters in Geography from Western and holds an undergraduate degree in planning and environmental assessment from the University of Waterloo. We discuss his Master's thesis entitled "Signs with a Side of Fries: The influence of outdoor advertising on retail food outlet purchases by adolescents."

Thesis: Signs with a Side of Fries

AJ's Google Scholar Page

Artwork: Watercolouredbyemily

Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

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