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SUMMARY:IFSTAL Lecture Event 8
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the London branch of the final lecture event of the series in this acedemic year of the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme. \nLive streamed from Oxford University\, Lecture 8 will focus on Future Food Systems: Dealing with Uncertainty and Complexity. We will be hearing from a panel of experts exploring some approaches to and methods for thinking about food system futures\, as we have to confront the increasing challenges of an increasing population\, globalisation\, and climate change. Exploring the future of our food systems is as much an art as it is a science. In particular we will focus on scenarios and gaming. \nOur panel consists of: \n\nProf Charles Godfray – Hope Professor & Director\, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food\, University of Oxford \nDr Monika Zurek – Senior Researcher\, SUSFANS\, University of Oxford \nDr Joost Vervoort – Senior Researcher\, TRANSMANGO and SUSFANS\, University of Oxford \nIf you are registered on the IFSTAL VLE through your institution you can find more details here. \n\nAs it’s the last lecture in the series of streamed events for 2015/2016\, we want to make sure there’s time to have fun and socialise too. So\, afterwards we will have a reception with wine and nibbles in the RVC Lightwell and a food systems pub quizz\, with prizes for the winning team! \nBook via EventBrite\n 
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/ifstal-lecture-event-8/
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SUMMARY:IFSTAL London event 7: ‘Decision makers and influence in food systems – a critical engagement’
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 7th event in the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme. IFSTAL is a collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, cross-university food systems training programme for postgraduate students\, linking with the work place to improve future human\, animal and environmental health. \nAt the IFSTAL Event 7 in London\, Dr Barbara Haesler from LCIRAH\, Dr Claire Marris and Prof Tim Lang from the Centre for Food Policy at City University London will tell us about their experiences of being involved in informing and researching interventions to shape the food system. The audience then will have the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary groups and critically engage with different food system governance initiatives (i.e. initiatives that seek to change or reform the wider food system in some way). Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet for the group activity. A prize will be offered to the winning group and the session will be followed by an informal drinks and nibbles reception. \nThere will be simultaneous events happening across the country in IFSTAL’s partner institutions: Oxford University\, Reading University and Warwick University. In London\, this event will be hosted by City University London  and LCIRAH (LSHTM\, RVC\, SOAS). If you would like to attend the lecture at any of the other IFSTAL locations please visit our website for more information. \nBook your place
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/ifstal-london-event-7-decision-makers-and-influence-in-food-systems-a-critical-engagement/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160210T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
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SUMMARY:UK Food Policy & Nutrition: Tracking Progress
DESCRIPTION:This event will review the policy and practice of Government and business on nutrition by looking at 3 new bodies of evidence: \n\nThe Global Nutrition Report’s data on UK progress on global nutrition targets;\nThe Access to Nutrition Index which ranks food manufacturers on the extent to which they are supporting good nutrition outcomes; and\nThe Food Foundation’s research applying the Food Environment Policy Index to the UK.\n\nWe will be hearing from:\nProf Boyd Swinburn – Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland and coauthor of the Lancet’s obesity series\nLawrence Haddad – Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group.\nInge Kauer – Executive Director of the Access to Nutrition Index.\nFurther details of the event will be updated shortly.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/uk-food-policy-nutrition-tracking-progress/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160128T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160128T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
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SUMMARY:IFSTAL lecture: 'Drivers and Influencers: what shapes the food system?'
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will look at what shapes the food system\, and  who (if anyone) is in control? The talk will be streamed to the other Universities that are partners in the IFSTAL project and and it will be followed by a discussion hosted jointly with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine\, The Royal Veterinary College\, and SOAS.   \nSpeakers: Tim Lang\, Prof of Food Policy\, and Raquel Ajates-Gonzalez & Rebecca Wells\, IFSTAL Teaching Fellows \nLocation: ELG01 Lecture theatre\, City University\, Northampton Square (enter through main reception and ask for directions)
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/ifstal-lecture-drivers-and-influencers-what-shapes-the-food-system/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151203T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
CREATED:20151124T163847Z
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SUMMARY:IFSTAL 4th Lecture in London
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 4th Lecture in the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning(IFSTAL) programme. IFSTAL is a collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, cross-university food systems training programme for postgraduate students\, linking with the work place to improve future human\, animal and environmental health. \nThis event will offer you the chance to explore the outcomes associated with food systems – looking particularly at food security\, the environment and the economy. \n Dr Rosemary Collier from Warwick University will be giving the lecture (live streamed from Warwick) “Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security\, the environment and economy”. The lecture will address issues of food security/insecurity\, health and welfare outcomes\, the environmental impacts of food system activities\, the cultural world around food\, profit\, employment and livelihoods coming from food. Outcomes are linked in various ways\, and working to alter one outcome will have knock-on implications for others. Afterwards we will have our own local discussion with the audience led by a panel of experts including Dr Barbara Haesler from LCIRAH\, Sergio Schneider\, Professor of Rural Sociology and Tim Lang\, Professor of Food Policy\, City University London\, giving you the opportunity to meet other colleagues studying and working on food-related topics. \nThere will be simultaneous events happening across the country in IFSTAL’s partner institutions: Oxford University\, Reading University and Warwick University. In London\, this event will be hosted by City University London  and LCIRAH (LSHTM\, RVC\, SOAS). If you would like to attend the lecture at any of the other IFSTAL locations please visit our website for more information.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/ifstal-4th-lecture-in-london/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151203T130000
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SUMMARY:Within Arm's Reach: School Neighbourhoods and the Availability of Food and Drink
DESCRIPTION:What young people eat and drink in the neighbourhood around schools is viewed as a significant public health challenge. Food and drink manufacturers and retailers aim to ensure their products are ‘within arm’s reach’ and young people’s diets are often nutritionally poor\, with levels of obesity still causing concern. \nIs the school neighbourhood – the availability and accessibility of food/drink – to blame? What factors are linked with young people’s food and drink ‘choices’? This seminar\, organised by the FoodNet and ReACH networks of CRIPACC at the University of Hertfordshire will explore these complex issues\, using insights from recently completed research. \nSchool Neighbourhoods and Young People’s Food Choices (a forthcoming Food Research Collaboration Briefing Paper)\, Jan Moorhouse\, University of Hertfordshire Business School\nWhat else do young people consume\, if they consume sugar sweetened drinks? Laura Hamilton\, Thomas Coram Research Unit\, UCL\nEnergy drinks: Hype or hyper? Shelina Visram\, Centre for Public Policy and Health\, Durham University\nTo book a place and to reserve parking please email Julie Mace j.mace@herts.ac.uk; For further information please contact Dr Wendy Wills w.j.wills@herts.ac.uk
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/within-arms-reach-school-neighbourhoods-and-the-availability-of-food-and-drink/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151105T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151105T200000
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CREATED:20151026T144647Z
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SUMMARY:IFSTAL Lecture 2 London Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2nd Lecture in the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning(IFSTAL) programme. IFSTAL is a collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, cross-university food systems training programme for postgraduate students\, linking with the work place to improve future human\, animal and environmental health. \nThis event will offer you an introduction to Systems Thinking\, the history and theory behind its development and how we might apply it to the ‘wicked problems’ facing food systems. \nDr Harley Pope of IFSTAL at Reading University will be giving the lecture (live streamed from Reading): “What is systems thinking and how might we use it to confront the ‘wicked problem(s)’ of food?”.  Afterwards we will have our own local discussion with the audience led by a panel of experts giving you the opportunity to meet other colleagues studying and working on food-related topics followed by a drinks and nibbles reception. \nThere will be simultaneous events happening across the country in IFSTAL’s partner institutions: Oxford University\, Reading University and Warwick University. In London\, this event will be hosted by City University London  and LCIRAH (LSHTM\, RVC\, SOAS). If you would like to attend the lecture at any of the other IFSTAL locations please visit our website for more information.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/ifstal-lecture-2-london-event/
LOCATION:City\, University of London\, Northampton Square\, London\, EC1V 0HB\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151104T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151104T203000
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SUMMARY:2015 Fred Sanger Lecture: “‘EAT. DIE.’ The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s”
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce details of the 2015 Fred Sanger Lecture\, which will take place on Weds 4th November 2015\, 6.30pm in the Henry Wellcome auditorium\, Wellcome Collection\, London. The lecture will be given bv Angela N. H. Creager\, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science\, Princeton University. \nIn the two decades following the 1962 publication of Silent Spring\, the US government sought to regulate environmental pollutants in the name of controlling human cancer. The development of short-term tests for mutagens promised an inexpensive\, rapid way to identify carcinogens among the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market. However\, by the 1980s\, findings from these rapid\, in vitro mutagenicity tests corroded these hopes. On the one hand\, it turned out that some chemical carcinogens were not also mutagens\, and thus escaped detection in these tests. On the other hand\, many natural substances\, such as compounds in foods and beverages—as well as products of normal metabolism—proved to be mutagenic. Related advances in understanding DNA damage led biologists increasingly to regard cancer as a by-product of aging. A public anxious about the dangers of contaminating pesticides and food additives was confronted with the message that the natural components of the human diet were already carcinogenic. In turn\, antiregulatory interests (especially chemical companies and conservative politicians) seized on the emerging complexities of controlling human exposures to mutagens to subvert environmental regulation. This lecture attempts to offer a critical appraisal of the diet-cancer conundrum of the 1980s against the background of the emerging field of genetic toxicology. \nFree tickets will soon be available from the Wellcome Collection website.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/2015-fred-sanger-lecture-eat-die-the-domestication-of-carcinogens-in-the-1980s/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
CREATED:20151013T190818Z
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SUMMARY:Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) launch event
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the London launch of the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme on Thursday 22nd October at 5:15pm at the Royal Veterinary College\, Camden. To register\, please click here. \nIFSTAL is a collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, cross-university food systems training programme for postgraduate students\, linking with the workplace to improve future human\, animal and environmental health. \nThis event will offer you an introduction to IFSTAL\, the concepts and the food system challenges it is aiming to address\, as well as an opportunity to meet people interested in this topic from across the spectrum of academia\, industry\, government and civil society. Dr John Ingram\, IFSTAL programme leader\, will be giving a lecture from Oxford that will be live beamed to our collaborating institutions in London\, Warwick and Reading. After the lecture\, there will be a panel-led discussion and opportunity to ask questions\, then meet other colleagues studying and working on food-related topics during our networking drinks reception. \nThe programme for the evening is as follows: \n5pm Registration and lecture theatre opens \n5:15pm Welcome from the Chair\, Dr Nick Brown \n5:20pm Inaugural lecture from Dr John Ingram (live streamed from Oxford):  “Food Systems: communities\, complexities and challenges” \n6pm  Welcome from Prof. David Church\, Vice-Principal of RVC \nPanel of members from LCIRAH and City University London: Dr Deborah Johnston\, Dr Suneetha Kadiyala\, Prof. Tim Lang and Prof. Jonathan Rushton. Introduction to each institution\, discussion about disciplinary approaches and work on food systems issues. Questions about the IFSTAL programme. \nClosing words from Prof. Jeff Waage\, Director of LCIRAH & LIDC \n6:30pm Drinks and nibbles reception\, combined networking event with LIDC\, display and announcement of the winning “Food Systems” photos (see details below). \nThere will be simultaneous launches happening across the country in IFSTAL’s partner institutions: Oxford University\, Reading University and Warwick University. In London\, this event will be hosted jointly by LCIRAH (LSHTM\, RVC\, SOAS) along with City University London\, at the Royal Veterinary College\, Camden. \nTo register\, please go to our Eventbrite page here. \nAs part of the event\, we invite you to submit a photograph (your own) that represents food systems to you\, with a short description (maximum 50 words) to accompany. The photos will be displayed during the reception/networking\, and there will be a cash prize for the best. A selection will also be displayed in an exhibition in the LIDC building. To submit\, please email your photo/image and description to ifstal-lcirah@rvc.ac.uk by end of day Monday 19th. This is open to all attendees\, and all students and staff (attending or not) at the London institutions (City Uni. London\, RVC\, LSHTM\, SOAS). \nOther upcoming IFSTAL events are: \n\n5th November\, 5:15pm : What is systems thinking and how might we use it to confront the ‘wicked problem(s) of food?’. Lecture given by Dr Harley Pope from Reading University followed by a local event\n\nLocation: 5th November: City University\, Northampton Square \n\n19th November\, 5:15pm : Who or what is involved in the food system and what are they doing? Lecture given by Dr Barbara Häsler from the Royal Veterinary College and LCIRAH\, followed by a local event\n\nLocation: 19th November: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\, Keppel Street \n\n3rd December\, 5:15pm : Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security\, the environment and economy. Lecture given by Dr Rosemary Collier from Warwick University\, followed by a local event.\n\nLocation: City University\, Northampton Square \nAny queries\, please contact ifstal-lcirah@rvc.ac.uk or ifstal-city@city.ac.uk
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/innovative-food-systems-teaching-and-learning-ifstal-launch-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150925T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150925T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
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SUMMARY:Governing Food Policy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Brighton and Sussex Medical School\, Room 2.10 – University of Sussex campus\, Falmer\n\nThis workshop sees the launch of a new Food Policy and Governance special interest group (SIG) hosted by BSUFN. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the broad topic of governing food policy in the context of work being undertaken by BSUFN members. Food policy is considered broadly as any policy of an organisation or governing institution which is related to food. Discussion among workshop participants aims to inform any areas of interest and priorities for activities and collaboration within the Food Policy and Governance SIG and BSUFN more broadly.\n\nThe workshop will centre on a series of questions to provoke discussion but these questions should not be considered to be exhaustive and other related topics for discussion are welcomed.\n\n\nIn what ways are local\, national\, and global food policies and priorities interlinked?\nDoes existing local\, national\, and international food policy reflect the needs and priorities of society?\nWhich stakeholders currently influence the production of food policy?\nThrough what means can society engage with and influence the production of food policy? Is society currently successful in this?\nIn what ways could BSUFN interact with food policy research\, governance\, and societal engagement?\n\n\nThe workshop is kindly supported by SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit)\, University of Sussex.\nSessions will be structured as ‘quick fire’ introductions followed by a period of open discussion among workshop participants. Speakers will each be given ten minutes to introduce a topic concerning food policy within their area of interest.\n\n\nThe detailed programme is available on the BSUFN website here: http://bsufn.com/events/governing-food-policy-workshop/\n\n\nPlease contact food.network@sussex.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/governing-food-policy-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150909T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150909T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
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SUMMARY:Sweetness\, social norms and schools: factors influencing children and young people's food and drink practices
DESCRIPTION:Childhood obesity is a major public health concern and sugar consumption is believed to be a significant contributing factor. Potential interventions include: restrictions on the marketing of certain foods to children; the introduction of a ‘sugar tax’; and prohibiting the sale of caffeinated energy drinks to under-18s. But will any of these ‘solutions’ actually work? This seminar will attempt to explore this complex issue using insights from three recently completed studies: \nThe social and economic context for young people’s food and drink purchasing in and around secondary schools – Dr Wendy Wills\, University of Hertfordshire \nEnergy drinks: hype or hyper? A mixed methods study on children and young people’s consumption of energy drinks – Dr Shelina Visram\, Durham University \nIs a sugar tax likely to be feasible\, acceptable and effective in the UK context? – Dr Victoria McGowan\, Teesside University \nLunch to be provided. Book now\, places are limited.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/sweetness-social-norms-and-schools-factors-influencing-children-and-young-peoples-food-and-drink-practices/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150905
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
CREATED:20150604T133009Z
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SUMMARY:Food for Thought: An interdisciplinary PhD Colloquim - Call for papers
DESCRIPTION:By virtue of its sustaining and vital nature\, food is of central importance to our livelihoods\, yet the processes by which food reaches our table and its journey beyond are vastly complex. The food system is a constellation of social and material processes and structures\, many of which are imbued with cultural meaning. As such it constitutes a critical site of everyday human experience and research that brings together the theoretical and the material. \nAbout the Event \nWe are holding an interdisciplinary PhD colloquium\, to discuss current issues in the food system and attempt to engage with these issues within and beyond the sphere of academia. It will bring together a wide range of academic and civil society actors engaged in the food system\, to share the material joys of food as well as discuss emerging and sometimes controversial issues to do with the security\, safety and resilience of the UK food system\, which remains embedded in a global context. \nThe colloquium will be structured around two key themes; \n\nFood Production and Consumption: Exploring the realities of food production and consumption and imagining alternatives\nFood Politics\, Policies and Cultures: Exploring claims\, controversies\, positions\, interests and values connected with food\n\nFood as a topic crosses many disciplines encompassing a range of interests and perspectives; consequently we extend this invitation broadly. The two themes around which the day will be structured accommodate numerous points of view and we encourage PhD students studying food within in a range of subject areas to submit an abstract for a paper presentation. As well as presentations from PhD students the event will engage participants in the material elements of food culminating in an evening feast. \nThe event will take place on the 12-13th November in and around Colchester\, Essex. \nGuidelines on submission: \n\nDeadline for submission of abstracts: 4th September\, 2015.\nAbstracts should be 500 words maximum\, saved as a word document (no pdfs please) and include affiliation and contact details for author(s).\nPlease send abstracts to David Watson\, djwats[@]essex.ac.uk\nAuthors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by 18th September 2015 at the latest.\n\nAbout the organisers \nThe event is being organised by a small group of PhD students and academics already researching food issues at the University of Essex.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/food-for-thought-an-interdisciplinary-phd-colloquim-call-for-papers/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150902
DTSTAMP:20260415T074600
CREATED:20150604T132551Z
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SUMMARY:Food Matters Symposium: a RGS-IBG AC21015 Pre-Conference event
DESCRIPTION:Transport will be provided on the day from Exeter University & St. David’s Train Station\, Exeter – leaving at 10 a.m. and returning for 6 p.m.) \nPanellists:\nProf. Mike Goodman (University of Reading); Dr. Emma Roe (University of Southampton); Dr. Matt Reed (The Countryside and Community Research Institute); Andy Bragg (West Town Farm); Martyn Bragg (Shillingford Organics); and Ashclyst Farm & Dairy. \nGroup Facilitators:\nDr Emma-Jayne Abbots (UWTSD); Dr Mags Adams (University of Salford); and Dr Agatha Herman (University of Reading). \nRationale:\nAlthough food waste is beginning to appear on academic and political agendas there has been a tendency to frame the problem around individual food practices\, and much less work has been done on how food becomes framed as waste at other nodes within food systems. Through employing a mixture of panel sessions\, provocations\, hands on sessions and group work\, this symposium will bring together academics\, food producers\, food retailers and food activists in order to approach the problem of food waste. We hope this symposium will enable a collaborative process of agenda setting for future research into food waste\, food knowledges and food practices. \nAbstract:\nFood matters are increasingly contested as lively materials that shape issues around human health and wellbeing as well as impacting on ecosystems through their production\, consumption and disposal. Food materials decay rendering food inedible. Food material can be seen as unknown\, unfamiliar and undesirable for consumption. Food matters can contain anxieties over provenance\, authenticity and wider material impacts on our ecosystems and our bodies. However solutions to knowing food\, addressing food waste and increasing access to fresh food are contested. Examples of this include the use of waste food to address issues of food poverty\, processing technologies precluding edible food from reaching the consumer\, or food labelling inhibiting edible food from being consumed. Through this participatory event we seek to explore these issues by not only generating debate for academic research\, but by also getting our hands on food matters\, and engaging with local producers’ food stories and food knowledges. By incorporating practical hands- on sessions to produce our lunch with ‘waste’ food and hearing on-the-ground experiences of producers and activists\, we seek to ground academic debate on production- consumption-waste pathways with the matter of food itself\, and to co-create knowledges for ongoing research collaboration. \nA symposium dinner will be held in the evening at a venue to be confirmed. \nOrganised in collaboration with:\nLove Local Food\, West Town Farm\, OrganicARTS\, Ashclyst Farm & Dairy\, Shillingford Farm. With support from the Nature\, Materialities & Biopolitics (NaMBio) research group of the Department of Geography in the University of Exeter\, the Social & Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (SCGRG RGS-IBG)\, the South-West Doctoral Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC SWDTC)\, and the Catalyst Project at the University of Exeter. \nMore Info and Event Booking
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/food-matters-symposium-a-rgs-ibg-ac21015-pre-conference-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150609T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150609T200000
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SUMMARY:Food Waste Transitions: Collaborations towards a Sustainable Food System
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nBaroness Scott of Needham Market\, Chair of House of Lords’ EU Food Waste Prevention Inquiry\nDr. Tim Fox\, Fellow and former Head of Energy and Environment\, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers & Global Ambassador\, Dearman\nMark Driscoll\, Head of Food\, Forum for the Future\nMark Little\, Head of Food Waste Reduction\, Tesco\nEmma Marsh\, Head of Love Food Hate Waste\, WRAP\nLouise Nicholls\, Head of Responsible Sourcing – Plan A & Packaging Technology\,\nMarks and Spencer\nDr. David Evans\, Research Fellow\, Sustainable Consumption Institute\,\nUniversity of Manchester \nThe Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI)\, University of Manchester\, is holding an event in Central London to mark the finale of ‘Households\, Retailers and Food Waste Transitions’\, a research and knowledge exchange project funded by the Economic & Social Research Council and the SCI (January 2014-June 2015). The event will bring together an invited audience of policy makers\, academics\, business people and NGOs to discuss food waste reduction and related issues of healthy and sustainable food systems. \nThere will be a round-table discussion with panellists from 5.30-7pm\, followed by a networking reception. The event will also showcase food waste research at the Sustainable Consumption Institute. \nRefreshments from 5pm \nPanel discussion 5.30pm – 7pm \nNetworking reception from 7pm\n\nFood waste research at the Sustainable Consumption Institute has involved three related empirical studies. In the first\, a social scientific approach to household food waste was developed through in-depth fieldwork in people’s homes\, exploring domestic practices of shopping\, cooking\, eating\, storage and disposal. Following this\, the ‘Households\, Retailers and Food Waste Transitions’ project (funded by the Economic & Social Research Council and SCI) undertook two strands of research. SCI researchers analysed data from a survey of c.70\,000 Tesco customers as well as a survey of eating habits in the UK completed by c.1500 online panel members\, in order to explore the relationships between the organisation of meal occasions\, the production of leftovers\, and waste generation. Lastly\, 33 interviews were conducted with 38 stakeholders\, to explore the ways in which the challenge of food waste reduction is being framed\, interpreted and responded to by engaged constituencies\, with a focus on the interface of households and retailers. \nBOOK YOUR PLACE \nPlease visit http://bit.ly/1Hv5PeN to reserve your place. \nMORE INFORMATION \nCall us on 0161 275 0189 or email sci[@]manchester.ac.uk
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/food-waste-transitions-collaborations-towards-a-sustainable-food-system/
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SUMMARY:'Designing Law for Nutrition-Related Health' workshop
DESCRIPTION:Details: http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/nutrition/index.php\nDeadline for submitting abstracts: 11 May 2015\nFee: £80 (£30 for PhD students). The registration fee includes workshop materials and refreshments and lunch on both days. \nThis multi-disciplinary workshop seeks to initiate the development of a model which can improve regulatory design for nutrition and health needs in food law. It will bring together academics\, practitioners and policy-makers from a range of disciplines and locations to explore whether and how public health nutrition research can inform better the design and implementation of European Union (EU) food law. Contributing disciplines will be social sciences\, public health nutrition\, business studies and law. Much has been written on different styles of regulation but there is very little work which seeks to develop a theoretical approach to integrating scientific research into the design and implementation of regulation in the context of nutrition and health. \nThe operation of much regulatory law is frequently described as a barrier to innovation and development. This is arguably because it often fails to incorporate domain specific knowledge\, e.g. in the area of food and health\, into the design stage of regulation. This workshop will seek to initiate the development of a regulatory design model in respect of food law so as to promote public health\, taking account of the interdisciplinary approach necessary to design good regulation. \nWORKSHOP FORMAT\nThree themed sessions each with a keynote speaker and 2-3 shorter related presentations (sourced from contributors responding to an open call) followed by chaired round table discussions focussing on key workshop themes\, including a final session which will integrate the theme discussions. \nTHEMES \nStyles of regulation for nutrition and health \nDesigning effective regulation is of primary concern in achieving the public health objective. Whether the law is risk-based\, prohibitory\, procedural or reflexive are all questions which need to be considered in relation to the particular form of law which is adopted and its ability to achieve the public health objective which is its purpose. Much legislation in the food arena is reactive and\, in relation to the EU\, is increasingly emerging in the form of Regulations which are directly applicable and leave no discretion to Member States. Concern to ensure harmonisation at the highest level in the face of increasing threats relating to the safety of food is leading to this result. But is that reactive approach the most effective way to design legislation which is aimed at promoting public health? This session will reflect on whether the current legislation adequately supports public health nutrition. Round table discussions will focus on the following questions:\n· Does food law support the drive for public health?\n· What models of enforcement are appropriate in the food supply chain to drive nutrition and health?\n· How much flexibility is generally desirable in the framework legislation? \nDomain-specific science underpinning nutrition-related legislation \nWithin the fields of food and nutrition\, research abounds across scientific\, technical and behavioural areas but this leaves the question as to how effectively such research is being incorporated into legislation in terms of its design and style. Further\, lack of scientific consensus is not operating as a barrier to legislation and the precautionary principle is frequently invoked as a legitimate and ethical basis for new EU Regulations.\nThis session will reflect on the link between public health nutrition research and the associated legislation. Round table discussions will focus on questions such as:\n· To what extent is public health nutrition research being taken into account in the drafting of law?\n· Where scientific knowledge is developing how can food and health legislation keep up with such change so as to drive the latest learning on nutritional and health needs?\n· How much flexibility should be left to decision-makers at national\, regional or local level\, e.g. due to different cultures\, populations\, needs\, levels of protection etc.?\n· Which risk assessors play/should play the key role\, e.g. industry’s scientists\, national competent authorities or EFSA?\n· How should the precautionary principle be incorporated and implemented? \nBehavioural aspects for nutrition and health \nThe process whereby people make decisions about their choices of food represents a complex decision-making process and behavioural sciences are increasingly important in determining the framework for this cognitive process. Examples of the abundance of scientific research include\, for example\, the impact of behavioural patterns around nutrition on health\, quality of life and longevity. Behavioural research is extensive and shows that individuals may not function in predictable and rational ways. With legislation increasingly used as the main driver for influencing human behaviour in respect of the food choices they make it becomes imperative to examine the efficacy of different approaches to regulation to achieve good public health outcomes. This session will reflect on what the behavioural sciences offer legislators developing food law that promotes nutrition and health. Round table discussions will focus on:\n· What role should self-regulation\, voluntary codes and other alternatives to ‘command control’ approaches play?\n· How can the law give flesh to this developing work on behaviour patterning?\n· How can the law promote behavioural choices for health without becoming the nanny state and limiting individual freedoms? \nPROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS AND/OR ATTENDING WORKSHOP\nContributions are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines\, and from both academics and practitioners. Individual contributions will be around 10 – 15 minutes\, and potential contributors should send a 250 word abstract by using the submission form below by 11 May 2015. Attendance will be confirmed by 18 May 2015. \nThe number of participants in the workshop will be strictly limited to facilitate creative discussion\, and there is an attendance fee payable by speakers and attendees of £80 (£30 for PhD students). The registration fee includes workshop materials and refreshments and lunch on both days.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/designing-law-for-nutrition-related-health-workshop/
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