Temitope Toyon is a DPhil student in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, funded by the Leverhulme Biopsychosocial Scholarship. She is supervised by Professor Jane Barlow and seeks to investigate how poverty and social inequality affects neurodevelopment in early childhood. Her research focuses on maternal food insecurity in pregnancy, and its effect on child neurological disorders. She is also keen on understanding the cost-effectiveness of food insecurity interventions, and how evidence-based research can influence health policies.