Coming soon...
What a brilliant day I had attending the symposium, witnessing some excellent presentations, and meeting old friends and making new ones. Especially thrilled to have won the Best ECR Research Poster competition for the poster created in collaboration with the amazing Cecilia Shang, Miriam Remshard, and Joseph Crouch titled 'Consumers and systems: Why sustainable food choices require multi-level change'.
It is a huge honour to have been selected from a field of excellent contributions. In our poster we outline our four different research perspectives, and how they come together to paint a picture of the complexities of choice behaviour around food and propose a multi-level engagement with the challenge of shifting behaviours.
Had an absolutely lovely day in Oxford on the 22nd of April 2026 attending what is fast becoming one of the highlights of my year, the 2026 LEAP (Livestock, environment, and people) conference, and presenting my poster about my project about healthy and sustainable food in the 31 Cambridge colleges.
Much like last year, the day offered a plethora of exciting and consistently high-quality contributions from a diverse range of contributors presenting on their research relating to the production and consumption of food. Speakers covered subjects such as what the key challenges are to transitioning an dynamic, complex, chaotic, and messy food system to one that supports a healthier population, climate, and ecosystems; the potential of matched menus in canteen settings, and increased meat-free options in hospital settings; barriers and drivers for shifting consumption of animal and plant-based dairy products; the challenges of achieving food sales that support the EAT Lancet dietary reference in European retailers; alternative protein innovation; and the ethics of a future food system - and also the 28 amazing poster presentations we were treated to.
Reflecting on the discourse throughout the day I experienced a clear shift from last year away from sometimes quite binary and reductive meat or no meat narratives, towards talks and discussions incorporating a much broader range of voices, visions, and epistemological perspectives. I also feel that this year there was much greater engagement with the role industry could/should play in transition and transformation - including some of the big players and organisations that previously would likely have been unmentionable in such conversations, certainly for me... Perhaps these observations also reflect my own shifting positionality over this period.
The most enjoyable aspect of the day though was the chance to meet some more of my heroes whose work has been so meaningful for me - and catch up with lots of old friends and make some new ones.
Roll on LEAP 2027!!!
A lovely afternoon talking about my research and about how mindsets shape climate action with Miriam Remshared in the David Attenborough Building not he 13th of February 2026. Slides and recording can be found here: https://www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/events/feeding-change-how-mindsets-and-meals-shape-climate-action
11th of March 2026:
I am delighted to announce the release of a lay summary report about my study exploring key barriers and levers for sustainable and healthy dietary transition in the Cambridge college dining halls. The report is available here: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.128279
I have also just sent my 2026 Conference Poster to print, and I am delighted to share it here too. It will be seen at various conferences this year, starting with the LEAP Future of Food Conference on the 22nd of April (see upcoming events page), where I hope to be able to discuss my study with diverse academic and non-academic audiences. The poster is available in high resolution on the University Apollo repository:
I had a brilliant time joining Dr Robin Strueber to deliver the final talks of this year’s series on the 16th of December. This was the fourth version of my talk about my research in the Cambridge colleges and the one that most closely summarised the content of the upcoming paper release. It was thrilling as always to engage with the community of ECRs about my research and the subject matter of healthy and sustainable food. It is always interesting and often surprising to see what elements of your talk people engage with the most - in this case I have found myself talking a lot about my position on pricing incentives. You can soon see the talk for yourself and by all means don’t hesitate to reach out if you would like to hear more about any element of my research or discuss any aspect of my analysis or conclusions.
You will be able to see the talk here very soon, if not already:
https://www.youtube.com/@centreforfoodpolicy109/videos
And of course if you are a researcher that is working on the future of food then please also join the network here:
I was fortunate enough to host this panel discussion with three incredible speakers at lovely Pembroke College. Edie, Maddy and Polina spoke to the subject matter with each their perspective and take on it - and then engaged in discussion with each other and the assembled audience. Chatham House rules were observed so sadly there will be no summary or recording of proceedings, but we are already talking about part 2, because we could have kept going for at least the whole evening!
So stay tuned and hopefully we will reassemble in the autumn to pick up on this crucial subject matter.
Really enjoyable day, and opportunity to present my research and engage with the panel.
And delighted to get awarded the prize for the 2nd best presentation on the day - the first prize rightly went to Rosalind Mackey for her amazing presentation about butterfly banks and other climate adaptation measures for invertebrates.
Great day in London hearing about the challenges for food systems transformation from a professional cookery perspective. And also another opportunity to present the interim results from my research.
A great day of thought-provoking content, including as always a brilliant input from the legendary Tim Lang <3 I am still digesting.
Amazing day in the beautiful and inspiring surroundings of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford.
So many phenomenal speakers and content was packed into this one day, including a barnstormer as always from Paul Behrens - with the critical take-away message that we need to keep repeating the key points of our messages about creating a more kind and sustainable food system, because the forces opposing transition certainly are repeating theirs. It is in the nature of scientific discourse to constantly be looking for new things to reveal and disclose, but we also really need to keep playing our greatest hits!
Delighted to have been part of the panel of contributors to this excellent event.
We had a fabulous and wide-ranging discussion about all things food and sustainability.
My contribution should soon be available here: https://www.youtube.com/@cambridgesustainablefood3395/featured
Brilliant day presenting the interrim findings of my research to a highly engaged audience at Darwin college, and talking widely about healthy and sustainable food.