Susan Thompson

Retired academic

My preferred location(s)

  • East of England

My background

  • Academia
  • Other

My field of interest and expertise

  • Biodiversity, ecology, conservation
  • Consumers and diets
  • Crop production
  • Food security and trade
  • Infrastructure and logistics
  • Land strategy and sequestration
  • Livestock farming
  • Policy and economics
  • Power, inequality and just transition
  • Processing and manufacturing
  • Supply chains, retail and hospitality
  • Systems thinking and modelling
  • Waste, energy and circular systems

I am interested in working with other members on

Issues concerning sustainable food systems

About me

Just completed the masters course in Sustainable Food Systems at Leeds University. Have PhD from University of Aston on a shift from animal to plant based agriculture in England and Wales (from 1979). Food sci and Biochem BSc. (Leeds). Working life in biological and chemistry based science companies. Mostly concerned with risk management and regulatory compliance. Brought up on a farm. Widely travelled. Now have primary school links as a school governor.

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