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SUMMARY:Food Thinkers - What are the research gaps that need to be filled to help public-private action be more effective in promoting nutrition?
DESCRIPTION:What are the research gaps that need to be filled to help public-private action be more effective in promoting nutrition? \nWith guest speaker: \nLawrence Haddad\,\nExecutive Director\, Global Alliance for Improving Nutrition (GAIN)\nTaking place on Wednesday 27 June at the slightly earlier time of 4.30pm \nB200\, University Building\, City\, University of London \nMany food system stakeholders from public and private sectors think that they should be doing more and better work together to make the food system deliver more affordable and available nutritious food for all. \nWhat are the knowledge and evidence gaps that are holding us back from doing this and are they researchable? \nThis presentation will explore potential areas where more and better public-private engagements can advance nutrition\, ask what is holding back these engagements and what research can do to inform and facilitate them and make them more likely to deliver. \nQuestions and discussion will then be opened to the audience. \nThe seminar is free to attend\, tickets are allocated on a first come first served basis so please do register here to secure your space. Please also feel free to forward this invitation onto colleagues.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/food-thinkers-what-are-the-research-gaps-that-need-to-be-filled-to-help-public-private-action-be-more-effective-in-promoting-nutrition/
LOCATION:Centre for Food Policy\, City\, University of London. Northampton Square\, London\, Select state...\, EC1V 0HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Centre for Food Policy Events,Upcoming
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Food Policy":MAILTO:FoodPolicy@city.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:April 25 | The 2018 City Food Policy Symposium - Connecting people with food policy
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the 2018 City Food Policy Symposium is to learn more about how gathering and translating evidence of lived experience of food-related problems can help make food policy more effective in delivering its goals. It will explore how gathering evidence of lived experiences of food challenges – how citizens and communities experience\, explain and respond to them – can inform more effective\, equitable and empowering policy solutions. \nThe morning session will include short “taster” presentations by policy makers\, academics and NGOs concerned with different aspects of food\, of examples where they have listened to people and where they have involved them in defining problems or crafting solutions. \nThe afternoon session will be made up of 2.5-3 hour workshops led by the policy\, NGOs\, programme and academic community. They will be designed to provide learning opportunities for how to gather and translate the evidence of lived experience. A cross-cutting theme for all the workshops will be processes through which the evidence gathered of lived experience can be used to meaningfully improve decision-making. \nThe output of the symposium will be a report bringing together a shared understanding of the value of gathering evidence of lived experiences and how this evidence can be most effectively translated into transformative action. \nThis event is generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Cooks. \n\nSymposium Programme (may be subject to amends)\nThe event will be chaired by Professor Corinna Hawkes\, Director\, Centre for Food Policy at City\, University of London \n\n9.30am – 10am Registration and coffee \n\n10am – 10.20am Scene Setting: The spectrum of lived experience from listening to co-creation (speaker TBC) \n\n10.20am – 11.20am Session One: Short talks on how do we listen\, what do we learn \nFocus groups for advocacy: listening to the experience of diet-related noncommunicable diseases in Mexico\nCristina Parsons Perez\, Capacity Development Director\, NCD Alliance\, Geneva \nEngaging with consumers to inform policy: listening to the publics views on food systems in the UK\nMichelle Patel\, Head of Social Science\, Food Standards Agency\, UK \nAssessing vulnerability and risk for intervention design in diabetes: insights from research in Houston\, Mexico City\, Vancouver and other global cities.\nDr Anna-Maria Volkmann\, University College London and Director of Research and Training\, Cities Changing Diabetes Programme \nEngaging Canadians to inform a national food policy: ways of listening to thousands\nRaphael Sauve\, Agriculture and Agrifoods Canada; Dr Hasan Hutchinson\, Director General of Nutritional Policy and Programs\, Health Canada; and Diana Bronson\, Executive Director\, Food Secure Canada (by video) \nInterviewing young people for research: listening to teenagers voices on what influences food purchases in and out of schools in Scotland and England.\nProfessor Wendy Wills\, Professor of Food and Public Health\, University of Hertfordshire\, UK \n“Listening posts” to inform activism and policy in development: the experience of high food prices in Asia\, Latin America and Africa\nDr Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert\, Researcher\, Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility \n\n11.20am – 11.40am Coffee break \n\n11.40am – 12.40pm Session Two: Short talks on involving and empowering people with lived experiences \nLessons from Witnesses to Hunger: how to disrupt the status quo through action research and photovoice in the United States.\nTianna Gaines-Turner\, Witness to Hunger and Professor Mariana Chilton\, Professor\, Health Management and Policy Director\, Center for Hunger-Free Communities\, School of Public Health\, Drexel University\, Philadelphia\, USA (by video) \nLearning lessons from the experience of food poverty: a Systems Leadership approach to creating food wealth in Cornwall.\nMatthew Thompson\, Chief Executive\, Fifteen-Cornwall \nDeliberative processes for analysing research findings: involving small farmers in transforming food systems in Nicaragua and the UK\nElise Wach\, Research Advisor\, Institute of Development Studies\, Brighton\, UK; Doctoral Researcher\, Centre for Agroecology\, Water and Resilience\, Coventry University\, UK \nCo-designing user-centered services: involving older people in the UK’s Food for Life programme\nFrancesca Sanders\, Head of Service Design\, Food for Life\, UK \nGroup model building for local solutions: involving communities in obesity prevention in rural Australia\nJanette Lowe\, Executive Officer\, Southern Grampians Glenelg Primary Care Partnership\, Victoria\, Australia (by video) \nFood Diaries as citizen-generated evidence: bottom up advocacy for dietary diversity in Western Uganda\nRepresentative of Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC)\, Uganda\, on behalf of the Sustainable Diets For All programme\, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) HIVOS and KRC \n\n12.40pm – 2pm Lunch \n\n2pm – 5pm Workshops \nThe 2.5-3 hour workshops will run in parallel and be led by members of the policy\, NGOs\, programme and academic community. They will be designed to provide learning opportunities for how to gather and translate the evidence of lived experience. A cross-cutting theme for all the workshops will be processes through which the evidence gathered of lived experience can be used to meaningfully improve decision-making. \n\nWorkshop One – Empowering people in food poverty\nLed by Ben Pearson\, Food Power; Empowerment Programme Officer\, Church Action on Poverty; Workstream Leader ‘Involving Experts by Experience’\, plus a Food Power pilot participant. \nWorkshop capacity: 30 \nThis workshop will be used to inform the Food Power programme\, a programme which tackles food poverty through people-powered change. The aim will be to identify how the experiences of people in food poverty can be used to inform more effective decisions about programme and policies designed to address it. \nFacilitated by the leader of the Food Power workstream on ‘Involving Experts by Experience’\, it will start with a general introduction to Food Power\, followed by interactive activity designed to reveal the purpose of involving experts by experience\, exploring empowerment & influence. It will then showcase & provide an opportunity to test the three different methods that are to be used in the Food Power ‘Involving Experts by Experience’ pilots. This will be followed by a discussion about how the information captured can be used to influence decision-making by programme and policy makers\, and what these decision-makers needs are. \nThis Workshop will provide insights to anyone concerned with effective and sustainable solutions to food poverty. It will be particularly relevant to programme and policy makers at the local level looking to inform their food poverty activities through evidence of lived experience. Decision-makers who would like to feedback and inform the Food Power programme are particularly welcome. \nWorkshop Two – Better everyday takeaway\nLed by Chris Holmes\, MD\, Shift \nWorkshop capacity: 15 \nShift\, a leading product design charity\, have been working on fast food’s role in unhealthy weight gain. They are about to start market testing a new social venture to reduce calories in inner city fast food. This co-creation workshop will give you direct experience\, as a participant\, of the co-creation phase they’ve just completed and put this step into the context of the overall process of product and service design they follow. The content is ‘hot of the press’ and the process is live and ongoing. You won’t get closer to such a programme without being in the programme team but in return expect to work hard for 3-hours and come away exhausted – not for those who want a relaxed afternoon of presentations. \nThe workshop is for those interested in: people’s relationship with fast food; experiencing a co-creation technique; and product/ service design. You will come away with an overview of a product design process\, first hand experience of one stage and some of the most up to date understanding of people’s lived experience of fast food. \n\nWorkshop Three – Trust in the food system\nLed by Michelle Patel\, Head of Social Science\, Food Standards Agency \nWorkshop capacity: 30 \nThe FSA’s strategic aim is “Food we can trust”. However\, current discourse suggests that worldwide\, trust in government\, NGOs\, business\, and media has declined. Some commentators blame this ‘crisis of trust’ on the rise of social media and the democratisation of information. The FSA has been researching the trust and connection that people have in the food system\, and what a) the regulator and b) the food industry can learn to maintain\, improve and deserve the confidence of the communities we serve. \nThis workshop is one of a series with industry and civil society where we would like to briefly present the insights gained so far from three years of research into people’s lived experiences and gather views on what drives and builds a trusted a) regulator and b) a trustworthy food system in an increasingly complex world. \nIt is part of a programme of work to explore the issue in more depth\, including establishing new quantitative measures to understand and track public views including the development of a composite measure for trust\, a literature review covering the contemporary drivers and barriers to trust in industry\, the food system and in regulators and qualitative research which will explore trust with citizens. \nThis workshop will be of particular interest to those who seek to understand or represent food businesses and consumers of food. \nThis programme will be brought together later this year in a peer-reviewed synthesis with existing research from the FSA and elsewhere\, intended to help locate food policy decisions in England\, Wales and Northern Ireland in the coming years and to inform the wider discourse. \n\nWorkshop Four – Engaging in Brexit: How can we meaningfully involve the British public in developing a fairer vision for food and farming in post-Brexit UK\nLed by Lynne Davis\, RSA Food Farming and Countryside Commission\, Sinead Fenton\, Food Research Collaboration\, Centre for Food Policy. City\, University of London and Rosalind Sharpe\, Centre for Food Policy\, City\, University of London \nWorkshop capacity: 30 people \nThe RSA Food Farming and Countryside Commission launched in November 2017 with the aim of building a widely shared public mandate for the future of food\, farming and the countryside in post-Brexit UK. This workshop will help inform our year long program of national engagement with citizens and practitioners in food\, farming and countryside issues. \nIn June 2016 the British public was formally consulted on EU membership – arguably a simplistic gesture of public engagement with very little follow-up opportunity in shaping the future of this country. So what does it mean to meaningfully involve citizens and stakeholders in the decisions that will shape their future? \nJointly facilitated by the RSA Food Farming and Countryside Commission\, the Food Research Collaboration and the Centre for Food Policy\, this highly participatory workshop will delve into the nature of engagement in food and farming issues. We’ll start by taking stock of the current landscape of engagement\, looking at the processes that have gone into existing consultation and policy proposals across the sector. We’ll then draw on the collective experience of participants to explore method and practice through a lens of meaning and efficacy. We’ll mix presentations\, multimedia\, discussions\, problem solving and post-it notes in this creative and collaborative session. From the workshop we’ll build a toolkit based on our collective experiences. \nThis workshop will provide insights to anyone concerned about how to take the opportunity of Brexit to improve food policy. It is for anyone that has ideas or experience in working with individuals and groups to gather ideas\, ask opinions\, consult on proposals or deliberate on democracy. \n\nWorkshop Five – Co-production: guidelines for respectful collaboration between people with lived experience and campaigners/researchers\nLed by Caroline Mockford\, Food Justice Campaigner\, and Pete Ritchie\, Director\, Nourish Scotland \nWorkshop capacity: 25 \nThis workshop will be used to inform the discourse in the food justice movement in the UK and more broadly. The aim is to stimulate thinking and reflection on the complexities of co-production in the food justice movement. \nAt the start of the workshop\, the co-presenters will talk about their experience of co-production\, especially on the food justice agenda.  We will also draw more generally on the practice of collaboration in the pursuit of social change between researchers\, campaigners and people directly affected by injustice. \nThe themes raised will include: \n\nRepresentation of lived experience: how researchers and campaigners can add weight to people’s experience without taking over\, or making people look like victims.\nRepresentativeness: how individual experience turns into collective experience through people finding a way to understand what’s going on.  How to deal with claims that ‘expert users’ are not representative.\nPower: how setting up ‘of’ organisations can empower people in their relationships with ‘for’ organisations; the particular challenges of developing and nurturing strong ‘of’ organisations around food justice issues\, and comparisons with other social movements.\nBread and butter issues: the way meetings are organized and managed; how money gets shared.  Examples of best practice and the not so good.\n\nThe workshop will then open for a guided discussion \nThe workshop will provide insights for those of us who are researchers and campaigners and see our work benefiting others. It will remind us of how we can engage coherently and respectfully with those whose experiences we rely on for our work. For those of us who come to the workshop as people with lived experience it will provide an opportunity to share experience of collaboration and remind us what we have a right to expect. \nFurther workshops will be announced shortly\, examples include: \n– Visual methods for gathering evidence of lived experience (led by Universidad de Alcalá\, Madrid) \n– Systems leadership and food (led by the Leadership Centre) \nEach workshop with have a capacity of between 15-30 people and workshop signup will be circulated in March.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/the-2018-city-food-policy-symposium-connecting-people-with-food-policy/
LOCATION:City\, University of London\, Northampton Square\, London\, EC1V 0HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Centre for Food Policy Events,Upcoming
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Food Policy":MAILTO:FoodPolicy@city.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Food Thinkers | Trust is a must: Food policy in an age of doubt
DESCRIPTION:Trust is a must: Food policy in an age of doubt\n\nWith Professor John Coveney\, Flinders University \nChaired by Professor Martin Caraher\, City\, University of London \nThe Centre for Food Policy’s monthly Food Thinkers series aims to advance the thinking and practice of integrated approaches to food policy. For this March 2018 Food Thinkers we are honoured to have with us\, John Coveney\, Professor of Global Food\, Culture and Health at Flinders University\, Adelaide\, South Australia\, discussing consumer trust in food and food systems. \n\nConsumer trust in food and food systems is crucial for health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Breaches of consumer food trust can be damaging to the credibility of food regulators\, impacting also on the productivity of food producers\, manufacturers and retailers. \nResearchers at Flinders University (South Australia)\, City University (UK) and University of Kent (UK) over the past 5 years have worked together on an Australian Research Council grant to compare and contrast ways that food trust is damaged. Of particular interested was how trust can be repaired after a food scandal or food scare. Using consensus-testing processes with experts in their respective fields\, the researchers sought to arrive at best practice models to assist government\, industry\, consumer groups and media to (re)build trust during times of doubt about the integrity of the food system. \nProfessor Coveney will present this research and findings after which questions and discussion will be opened to the audience. \nProfessor John Coveney PhD\, APD\nJohn Coveney is Professor of Global Food\, Culture and Health at Flinders University\, Adelaide\, South Australia. He has research and education interests in food policy; public health nutrition; history of food and health; and social and cultural factors that influence food trust\, food patterns and food intake. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at City University\, UK.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/food-thinkers-trust-is-a-must-food-policy-in-an-age-of-doubt/
LOCATION:City\, University of London\, Northampton Square\, London\, EC1V 0HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Centre for Food Policy Events,Food Research Collaboration Events,Upcoming
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Food Policy":MAILTO:FoodPolicy@city.ac.uk
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