Core Committee

Dr Lauren Blake, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: Interconnections between environmental, human, animal and societal health in agrifood systems, principally UK and Latin America; tensions between farming and conservation; agroextractivism; antimicrobial resistance in food systems; malnutrition, diet/nutrition transitions and food security; indigenous knowledge and biocultural heritage; food system resilience (e.g. to climate change, conflict, pandemics); food activism; food and identity.    

Dr Jonny Beacham, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: the ‘transformation’ of the UK’s agri-food system(s); the politics of environmental sustainability, the relationship between the domains of ‘production’ and ‘consumption’ and the governance of dietary change in an international context.

Dr Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo, Bristol Veterinary School 
Research interests: dairy and beef systems and production; rumen function and methane emissions; sustainable and regenerative grass-based systems, herbage management and sustainability, production and quality aspects; strategies to transform the food sector for more sustainable practices and products.

Dr Lucy McCarthy, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: transitions to ecologically resilient and socially equitable agri-food supply chains; engaged methodologies; marginalised communities.

Dr Lydia Medland, School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies
Research interests: global food politics; '5 a day' fruit and vegetables (see project here); agroecology; farming; migration; labour markets; UK, Europe, Mediterranean and North African regions.

Dr Jess Paddock, School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies
Research interests: exploring everyday food practices - how does understanding how people eat (not just what they eat) and access/provision diets help us to think about better interventions than those targeted at individual consumer behaviour changes (which typically rely on targeting attitudes and beliefs); food insecurities understood as lack of access to culturally appropriate food in the Caribbean and also in the UK.

Heike Rolker, Bristol Veterinary School
Research interests: public health nutrition and agriculture-nutrition links; minimising food losses and waste and the impacts and trade-offs for human, animal, and environmental health.

Dr Rob Skinner, School of Humanities
Research interests: histories of transnational activism, ideas of human rights and justice; the relationships between activist ideologies and everyday practices; the activities of the London Food Commission and other advocacy groups focused on food systems, health, diet and policy in the late 20^th century; histories of global anti-apartheid activism and international solidarity.

Group Members

Dr Katerina Dauksta, Bristol Veterinary School 
Research interests: Sustainable agriculture, soil health, soil carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable land use management, biodiversity.

Dr Gregory Schwartz, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: the effects of the transformations in global political economy on the nature of work, forms of labour organisation, the subjectivities of labour, the links between labour migration, gender and social reproduction, and the problem of management in the social organisation of work.

Eliza Hostin Silva, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: alternative economies; alternative organisations; co-ops; socioenvironmental justice.

Dr Diane Hird, School of Psychological Science 
Research interests: open data & research, plant science, plant disease, agriculture.

Dr Pete Falloon, School of Biological Sciences 
Research interests: climate resilient food systems; climate adaptation and mitigation; agriculture; climate services; climate change.

Prof Martin Parker, University of Bristol Business School
Research interests: alternative economy; alternative organisations; civic university.

Dr Remco Peters, School for Policy Studies 
Research interests: systems science approaches to malnutrition, sustainable and equitable food systems, social protection and nutrition/health.

Sarah Hunter, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: just (agroecological) transitions; conservation and farming tensions; land struggles.

Dr William Baker, School of Education
Research interests: charitable food aid, food insecurity and educational outcomes. 

Sara Hall, Bristol Veterinary School
Research interests: holistic integrated approaches to sustainable agriculture, livestock systems, dairy farming, UK farming, animal welfare, biodiversity, greenhouse gases and socio-economic impacts.