Programme

Place to Plate: New Connections in Food Research

2 April, Glamorgan Building Cardiff University  

 

8.30 – 9.00	Registration and Coffee Committee Rooms 1&2
9.00	Opening Address by: Professor Terry Marsden
	Paper presentationsAbstracts
	Room 0.85Chair: Susannah McWilliam		Room 0.86Chair: Kate Knowles
9.30 – 9.55	Ray Chan, Cardiff University  C-PLAN  ‘Politic of Meat Production: Governmentality, License-Buy-Back Scheme, and Pig Farming Industry in post 1997 Hong Kong’		Hannah Pitt, Cardiff University CPLAN ‘Five flavours of fieldwork’
9.55 – 10.20	Claire Bloomfield, Cardiff University C-PLAN  ‘(No) Appetite for Change? Hospital Food and Sustainable Development’		Julie Parsons Plymouth University‘P.S. A sugar sandwich hasn’t passed my lips since 1982’, an exploration of ‘taste’ and ‘distaste’ within individual food narratives.’
10.20 – 10.45	Luke Owen, Coventry University ‘Sustaining a Short Food Supply Chain in the global South: A case study from The Gambia, West Africa.’		Marta Wilczek-Watson Cardiff University ENCAP‘Food Rituals: Metacultural Performances of Self and Other during a Transnational Christmas Meal’
10.45 – 11.05	coffee
	Paper presentations
	Room 0.85Chair: Hannah Pitt		Room 0.86Chair: Claire Bloomfield
11.05 – 11.30	Sue Moore, Cardiff University            SOCSI                ‘From Policy to Plate – A socio-ecological perspective on the implementation of healthy eating policies in primary schools’		Sara Long, Swansea University       ‘The effect of docosahexaenoic acid, vitamin and mineral supplementation on aggression and impulsivity’
11.30 – 11.55	Rebecca Sandover, University of Exeter  ‘Allotment growing: space,  connectivity and knowledge’		Muzna Rahman Manchester University “Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions: The politics of eating, reading and subjectivity.”
11.55 – 12.20	Bridin Carroll, University of Galway  ‘Consumption for sustainability: Examining the nature of perceptions of consumers in Ireland of local food and whether a value-action gap exists’		Deborah Kwan Cardiff Metropolitan ‘Talking Healthy Eating: Women’s experiences of healthy eating’
12.20 – 12.45	Kate Knowles, Cardiff University ARCHI ‘What is the recipe for a healthy community?’
12.45 – 1.00	Poster presentations: Susannah McWilliam Cardiff University, CPLAN ‘Can hospital foodservice systems care for patients and planet?’ Rachael Durrant, University of Sussex Freeman Centre ‘Towards sustainable food: an intention to be system-changing’ Stephanie Baum, Institute of Education, London ‘Men’s domestic cooking careers’
1.00 – 2.00	Lunch
2.00	Keynote Speech: Professor Anne Murcott‘On the way from place to plate: problematising the popular’   Chair and Discussant : Professor Kevin Morgan
	Delegates will be invited to contribute to round table discussions on the following themes voted for by participants on the place to plate website placetoplate.wordpress.com.  Contributors will be invited to post comments on these themes throughout the morning, which will form the basis of discussions. Delegates are invited to move between themes throughout the afternoon.
3.00	Room 0.85Round Table Discussion: Sustainability in Conventional Food Systems Facilitators: Claire Bloomfield	Room 0.86Round Table Discussion Food and Emotion   Facilitators: Hannah Pitt & Bella Beynon		Committee Room 1Round Table Discussion Food Knowledge and Choice Facilitators: Susannah McWillliam & Tess Baxter
4.15	Summaries of Round Table Discussions
4.45	Closing Address: Professor Susan Baker
5.00	CLOSE
6.30pm	Conference Dinner: Milgi, City Road, Cardiff

 

Speakers

• Key note speech from Professor Anne Murcott, Professor Emerita (Sociology), South Bank University, London, and honorary professorships at City University and the University of Nottingham. Her previous work includes visiting positions in Australian universities and service as editor or editorial board member of international academic journals and the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Research. She has authored and co-authored many academic papers and books, and served as Director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s six-year Research Programme “The Nation’s Diet: the social science of food choice”. Her research interests run across the sociology of food, culture and various aspects of health, illness and medicine.
• Welcome from Terry Marsden Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, and Co-Director of the BRASS Research Centre. He is a specialist in international rural development, sustainability and the rural environment and has published extensively on food issues.
• Closing remarks from Susan Baker, Professor of Environmental Social Science in the School of Social Sciences and a Principal Investigator of the Sustainable Places Research Institute. She has a multidisciplinary background spanning economics, philosophy and political science and is currently engaged in research on the interrelationships between social and ecological processes, particularly in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Discussant Kevin Morgan, Professor of Governance and Deveopment in the School of City and Regional Planning. He has published extensively on the topic of food, including his jointly authored book The School Food Revolution, about which he and Roberta Sonnino presented to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in New York.

Venue

All sessions take place in the Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cathays Park.  Glamorgan Building location 

Here’s a map of Cardiff including the university, and Student Union (38) where the film show on Sunday evening will be held. Cardiff Uni Location Map

The venue is less than 10 minutes walk from Cathays station, and approximately 20 minutes walk from Central Station for mainline trains. The Megabus stops right outside the Student Union.