Centre for Food Policy 1994-2016 Teaching, Researching and Influencing Food Policy

Academic excellence for business and the professions Centre for Food Policy 1994-2016 Teaching, researching and influencing food policy www.city.ac.uk Centre for Food Policy Acknowledgements This report was prepared by the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London with contributions from Tim Lang, David Barling, Martin Caraher, Corinna Hawkes, Lindy Sharpe, Mary Atkinson, Victora Schoen, Raquel Ajates-Gonzalez and Rebecca Wells. We’d like to thank our editor Matt Phil Carver and our designers at Fabrik Brands. Thanks also to all our Alumni who contributed their stories, and to Lindy Sharpe for interviewing them. A big thank you to Worshipful Company of Cooks, for all their financial support, and to the Baring Foundation for helping the Centre get established in the first place. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the big role played by the Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London, in the life of the Centre for Food Policy. Thank you for your invaluable support. Tim Lang David Barling Martin Caraher Corinna Hawkes Professor of Food Policy, Director of the Centre for Professor of Food and Health Director, Centre for Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy Agriculture, Food and Policy, Centre for Food Policy Professor of Food Policy Environmental Management, University of Hertfordshire Lindy Sharpe Mary Atkinson Victoria Schoen Raquel Ajates Gonzalez PhD Research Student, Coordinator, Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Food Policy Food Research Collaboration, Food Research Collaboration, Innovative Food Systems Centre for Food Policy Centre for Food Policy Teaching and Learning, Centre for Food Policy Rebecca Wells Claire Marris Teaching Fellow, Innovative Food Senior Lecturer in Food Policy, Systems Teaching and Learning, Centre for Food Policy Centre for Food Policy Suggested citation : Centre for Food Policy (2016). Centre for Food Policy 1994-2016: teaching, researching and influencing food policy. London: City, University of London Contents | 1 Table of Contents FOREWORD BY PROFESSOR THEO FARRELL 2 INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR CORINNA HAWKES 3 PART 1. DEBATING AND DEFINING A NEW FOOD POLICY 4 THE ORIGINS OF THE IDEA 5 DEVELOPING THE NEW APPROACH TO FOOD POLICY 6 SETTING THE CENTRE’S GOALS 6 ASSEMBLING THE CENTRE’S FIRST TEAM 7 PART 2. EDUCATING FUTURE LEADERS 8 AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH – THE WORLD’S FIRST MASTERS IN FOOD POLICY 8 OUR STUDENTS AND ALUMNI: REFLECTIONS ON THE MASTERS COURSE AND THEIR CAREERS AFTERWARDS 9 INNOVATIVE FOOD SYSTEMS TEACHING AND LEARNING (IFSTAL) 12 PART 3. DECADES OF FOOD POLICY SCHOLARSHIP 13 A FRESH UNDERSTANDING OF FOOD POLICY 13 BOOKS 14 JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES 14 RESEARCH PROJECTS 14 RESEARCH THEMES 15 PHD RESEARCH 19 RECOGNITION 19 PART 4. ENGAGING WITH THE WORLD OF FOOD POLICY 20 AN OUTWARD-LOOKING APPROACH FOR PUBLIC GOOD AND PUBLIC IMPACT 20 ENGAGING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL 21 SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY 21 THE FOOD RESEARCH COLLABORATION (FRC) 21 COLLABORATION ACROSS UNIVERSITIES AND THINK TANKS 22 CATALYSING ACADEMIC THOUGHT THROUGH SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIA 23 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 23 PART 5. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE CENTRE? 24 A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR 24 PART 6. FACTS AND FIGURES 26 THE CENTRE FOR FOOD POLICY – A TIMELINE 26 THE CENTRE’S RESEARCH PROJECTS 27 ADVISORY PROCESSES 27 PHD STUDENTS – FULL LIST 29 CURRENT PHDS – FULL LIST 2016-17 29 2 | Foreword Foreword by Professor Theo Farrell Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences City, University of London I’m delighted to introduce this new report from the Centre for Food Policy. The Centre has a proud, research-intensive history and has shown We’re delighted to have such a dynamic and experienced colleague global intellectual leadership. It has given students a more holistic take the helm, and build on Tim’s great leadership of the Centre understanding of how food policy works and how it can be changed for Food Policy. for the better. It’s also a momentous time for City, with our accession to the It has always been an outward-looking Centre, contributing to and University of London. City is now ranked in the top 20 of UK learning from live food policy debate and practice. universities (18th in the Guardian University Guide 2017), and in the This is a new moment for the Centre – Tim Lang has stepped back top 4% of universities in the world (Times Higher Education World and we’ve made the exciting appointment of Corinna Hawkes as University Rankings 2016). Our growing success is underpinned by our new Director. Professor Hawkes brings to the role extensive ever-greater research. According to the 2014 Research Excellence and deep experience of working within international agencies, Framework exercise, 40% of research at City is now internationally governments, NGOs, and at the interface of academia and the excellent or world leading. world of practice, on food systems policies. Our mission in the School of Arts and Social Sciences is to Currently, she co-chairs the Independent Expert Group of the Global continue this success, to provide innovative and inspiring teaching, Nutrition Report, and sits on the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy to support curiosity-driven and policy-orientated scholarship, Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, the Lancet Commission on and to create more opportunities for interdisciplinary research. Obesity, and the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Most importantly, we want to produce research that advances Systems (IPES-Food). human wellbeing and has a positive impact on our world. In this respect, the Centre for Food Policy exemplifies the very best of social sciences at City. Professor Theo Farrell Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences Introduction | 3 Introduction by Professor Corinna Hawkes Director, Centre for Food Policy Food policy matters, because food affects everyone Think about it. The food growing in the fields, the food on our shelves, the food on our plates. The food being processed and changed. Food policy affects the people whose jobs are based on growing, moving, processing, buying and selling food. Food policy affects the environment. It affects (and is affected by) Professor Lang used this thinking to engage two colleagues early economics, health and culture. Food policy determines who eats on, David Barling and Martin Caraher. Together, they established what, when, why, where and how. a Centre with a thriving intellectual base, a multitude of exciting Food policy spans a complex web of institutions, infrastructure, research projects, a unique Masters and an ‘activist’ approach in people and processes. It’s subject to the influences and interests the best sense of the word – the desire to direct scholarship and of countless parties – all of whom compete to have a say in the teaching towards improving people’s lives. policies that govern the growing, storing, packing, processing, In 2016, Tim Lang stepped back from leading the Centre. This was distribution, consumption and disposal of food, from farm to fork. one development of many over 2015 and 2016 that has made it That’s a lot of policy. But food policy is also concerned with absence a hugely significant period, both for the Centre and for food policy of policy. What governments don’t do, whether by design or neglect, as a whole: is as much a policy as a specific action is. • In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Good food policy is needed to address the multitude of food Development Goals – the series of aspirational goals countries challenges – globally, nationally and locally. For food to be the have agreed on as a vision of global development, with food business and pleasure it should be, it needs the right kind of systems relevant to just about all of them. food policy. • Countries around the world are paying increasing attention to In the past, going back many decades, food policy was practised a food systems approach, developing policies on sustainability almost as if agriculture was the only aspect of the food system and nutrition. that needed managing. Preventing hunger often involved policies • We’ve seen an ever-increasing consolidation of global that aimed to square up the uneasy balance between supply and agribusiness and food industry but at the same time tremendous demand. Then other concerns came into play, notably sustainability. innovation and entrepreneurship in food systems at the local Policy making now needs to address a broader set of goals. Health level and the proliferation of city-led initiatives to improve food and nutrition have risen even more prominently to the fore. Policy systems, articulated in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact in 2015. has to cope with the world’s difficult mix of both under and over • Britain voted to exit the European Union, with profound consumption. In the modern food system, many have too much and implications for food policy. others too little – many earn billions, and others a pittance. The With these developments in mind, this report sets out what the food system is often a place of conflict. The job of policy is to find Centre for Food Policy has done over the years to contribute to the balance, and to come to a judgment about whose interests to where food policy is now. serve, and how. It traces the Centre’s origins and its early mission to redefine food The Centre for Food Policy has been central to a more progressive policy. It explains the Centre’s mission to educate a new, more understanding of what food policy really is, what it involves and progressive, broader-thinking generation of food policy scholars what it could do. When it was founded (initially at Thames Valley and practitioners. It summarises the Centre’s hugely diverse output University) in 1994, it was the one and only place arguing that of research.

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