Greta is the Dean of Social Mobility and Policy Engagement and the Director of the ‘Healthy Living’ Lab at Northumbria University. She has published numerous scientific and policy papers on children and young people’s wellbeing, food insecurity, school meals, school breakfast clubs, affordable food clubs, the Holiday Activities and Food programme, and has led numerous co-design projects with the UK Government to ensure that young people’s voices are not only heard but acted upon in terms of policy and practice.
In 2017, she led the co-design of the £200 million per annum HAF programme that operates across all higher-tier local authorities in England. In 2025, she led the co-design of England’s School Breakfast Club Programme.
In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and, in 2026, became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2025, she became President of the RSM Food and Health Section and was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her services to Education. In 2026, she was appointed Chair of Feeding Britain and a trustee of the British Nutrition Foundation. She has also received numerous awards outside academia, including Children’s Food Hero from Sustain, a Top 100 Change Maker from The Big Issue, and Women of the Year.
She is currently co-investigator on a DfE-funded national evaluation of the UK Government’s free breakfast club scheme, a DfE-funded national evaluation of the HAF programme, and an NIHR-funded evaluation of the free fruit and vegetable scheme in all English primary schools.
