Dr. Shiran Taieb-Elmakayes

Dr. Shiran Taieb-Elmakayes is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa. In her postdoctoral research, she examines how people who receive food assistance experience a sense of belonging, entitlement and deservingness, comparing food assistance received from charitable organizations with government assistance programs.

Her research interests include perceptions of poverty among policymakers and policy implementers, the lived knowledge of people living in poverty, and the interface between them.