The Network

Researchers, academics and students from different disciplines join the Food Justice Network because they are interested in social and environmental justice and food sustainability at local, regional, and global scale.

The Network is an inclusive space to connect researchers who are undertaking critical and impactful research that has the potential to challenge the power structures that shape unequitable and unsustainable food systems.

The group work together to bring together their interdisciplinary expertise and collaborate with research projects and local action-orientated events.

Members of the network are ideologically driven by personal commitments to fairer and healthier food systems. The Network is an egalitarian space for stimulation and support towards the revaluation of the relations between food, people, animals and nature.

Our Activities

We hold seminars each academic year. Seminars are an opportunity for researchers to present their work, and seminar attendees to build their understanding of the food system through every presentation of new work.  

Some seminars are presentations of work in progress by members of the network, these are internal seminars so we can give presenters the opportunity to present in a friendly setting; these sessions are never recorded.

We also have external seminars which are open to everyone. These are often presentations by guest researchers and practitioners or by network members who have work that they wish to share with a wider audience.

Our network is involved in many research projects ranging from work with people, animals and land and concerning different models of food system production.

Membership

Network membership is open to any researchers and interested parties in the Bristol area or whose work has a connection to Bristol, most members are from the University of Bristol.

We welcome members at any level from across the University and research community, including professional service staff as well as members from the broader Bristol community in line with the Civic University values.

New members join the mailing list and are invited to participate in internal events where we share evolving research, as well as external events.

We have a Core Committee which is responsible for planning and decision making for the network. We are also connected with the University of Bristol Cabot Institute where Food is a thematic area of research interest. 

Collaboration is important to us, and we seek to build relationships with non-academic actors, such as civil society groups in the City of Bristol. This local connection is important for us, alongside maintaining awareness of global affairs and events.