Miss Bonnie Searle
Casual Senior Research Assistant & Research Officer
Queensland Brain Institute

Journal Articles
Searle, Bonnie, Cooke, Emma, Staton, Sally and Thorpe, Karen (2023). Poverty for lunch: a case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE. Children & Society: the international journal of childhood and children's. doi: 10.1111/chso.12782
Searle, Bonnie, Staton, Sally, Littlewood, Robyn and Thorpe, Karen (2023). Mealtimes in the context of poverty: comparison of ECEC services providing food and those requiring food provided from home. Child: Care, Health and Development. doi: 10.1111/cch.13109
Thorpe, Karen, Potia, Azhar Hussain, Searle, Bonnie, Van Halen, Olivia, Lakeman, Nicole, Oakes, Candice, Harris, Holly and Staton, Sally (2022). Meal provision in early childhood education and care programs: Association with geographic disadvantage, social disadvantage, cost, and market competition in an Australian population. Social Science & Medicine, 312 115317, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115317
Searle, Bonnie-Ria E., Staton, Sally S., Littlewood, Robyn and Thorpe, Karen (2022). Associations between food provision and feeding practices in socially disadvantaged childcare centres. Appetite, 169 105811, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105811
Searle, Bonnie-Ria E., Harris, Holly A., Thorpe, Karen and Jansen, Elena (2020). What children bring to the table: the association of temperament and child fussy eating with maternal and paternal mealtime structure. Appetite, 151 104680, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104680
Harris, Holly A., Ria-Searle, Bonnie, Jansen, Elena and Thorpe, Karen (2018). What's the fuss about? Parent presentations of fussy eating to a parenting support helpline. Public Health Nutrition, 21 (8), 1520-1528. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017004049
Research Report
Staton, Sally, Pattinson, Cassandra, Houen, Sandy, Coles, Laetitia, Westwood, Emily, Cooke, Emma, Searle, Bonnie-Ria and Thorpe, Karen (2022). KindyLinQ Program Pilot: Pilot evaluation report and executive summary. Online: Evidence for Learning.
Working Paper
Thorpe, Karen, Searle, Bonnie, Van Halen, Olivia, Lakeman, Nicole, Oakes, Candice, Harris, Holly and Staton, Sally (2020). A market in mealtimes: social and economic factors associated with meal provision in Early Care and Education (ECE) services. LCC Working Paper Series. 2020-25. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.