The Team
The core team who helped develop this site and the keynote talks are:
Mike Barrett - a graphic designer who runs Frogsdesign with his partner.
Richard Gott - a video producer based in Wales but who works across the UK.
Chris Ratcliffe - an independent web developer and publisher who runs Pennine Pens.
Geoff Tansey - a writer and consultant who has worked on food, agriculture and development issues for about 40 years.
Sarah Woods - a playwright, performer, director and producer.
Additional help to develop, implement, communicate and evaluate the project is from
Charlie Meecham - an environmentalist and cultural photographer.
Dave Robison - a Senior University Lecturer (Web, Video, Ethics & Sustainability), The School of Media, Design & Technology – University of Bradford.
Naomi Baxter - a student at The School of Media, Design & Technology – University of Bradford
Rhuari Bennett - a Director of consultancy 3KQ, which specialises in the evaluation of all sorts of projects that do worthwhile things.
Aine Morris - Festival Manager, Bristol Food Connections.
Tessa Tricks - Food Project Officer at Hubbub UK.
Rob Booth - recent graduate, MA Anthropology of Food, SOAS, University of London
The site is maintained and developed through the blogs and guest lectures by the Curator, Geoff Tansey
Supporters
In addition to the voluntary contributions from the speakers and work far beyond what was paid for by the team, this project has been made possible by support, in cash and in kind, from
- The School of Media, Design & Technology, University of Bradford
- Prof William Davies, Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster;
- The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Erik Moore, Studio01zero-one
- Jam Today philanthropic group, and
- The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Go to a talk
- The Food System - An overview
- Food regimes and their transformation
- The crucial century, 1945-2045: Transforming food systems in a global context
- The Right to Food - An overview
- Food and thriving people in the 21st century.
- Changing our fatally flawed food system
- Sustainable diets and public health
- How to feed a city - and change the world
- Food, nutrition and poverty - An overview
- Gender issues in food and farming - An overview
- Seeds of contention, control or diversity? - Global rules, intellectual property and the future control of food
- Understanding intellectual property - 1. An overview and 2. How business lobbying changed the world
- From food regimes to food sheds - the case of Southern Ontario.
- Biology and chemistry for peace not war