This narrative presents refections on the role of the food studies researcher from the prespective of a new academic with a background in community and policy work. It details a multi-phased, mixed methods case study on the public policy relations of infant food insecurity in Canada and provides a discussion of some unintentional outcomes of doing food studies research. The author suggests that an integrative approach, one where the researcher bridges the micro-effects of public policy with policy making realms, is ideally suited to food studies and food policy analysis. The narrative reveals how a researcher can become the hyphens in the community—university—policy divide through the process of storytelling.

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• Frank, L., (2025), "Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13)

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1. case study
2. infant food insecurity
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Original publication: Frank, Lesley. "Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 88-98. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.