My preferred location(s)
My background
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Academia
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Government or policy
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Third sector
My field of interest and expertise
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Food security and trade
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Policy and economics
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Power, inequality and just transition
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Systems thinking and modelling
I am interested in working with other members on
Local to county to bioregional relocalisation and food strategy/policy, from community grassroots to town & Parish to county council-levels; food partnerships; civil food resilience mapping and planning.
About me
I have a background as a food policy researcher, educator, environmental scientist and market gardener. I currently work as a director/coordinator of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership and founder/lead of Food Forward Bishop’s Castle.
I hold a PhD in Food Policy from City University’s (now City St. George’s University, London) Centre for Food Policy, where my research focused on sustainable food production and local level food policy and the organisational structures of food partnerships.
With the Shropshire Good Food Partnership (SGFP), I have worked from community to county and bioregional levels of food systems, network building and public engagement for food transitions. I contribute to the governance and strategic direction of the organisation, as well as the comms, lead on policy work and more. SGFP is becoming known for the annual Marches Real Food and Farming events, and the Shropshire Good Food Trail. Through the Partnership, we're engaging with the wider Marches area through working with other food partnerships to form the Marches Real Food and Farming Network.
My interests are largely in relocalisation and resilience across our local/regional/bioregional food systems, sustainability, food security as a civil defence mechanism, and the integration of local level food strategies at the town and parish council level – all this with the aim of connecting the food system dots in a sustainable way for wider regional and national level systems resilience.