Principal Investigator – City St.George’s, University of London

Christina is the Director of the Centre for Food Policy, Professor of Food Policy and a registered nutritionist. Christina leads the ECON research study and works closely with co-leads to oversee the delivery of all projects.

Co-Investigator – University of Southampton

Mary is Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Science at the University of Southampton. Mary oversees the research activities taking place at Southampton University. Mary co-leads the study’s case study work package which explores the impact of health policy on convenience stores, customers and local authorities in six local regions. She brings expertise in qualitative research, evaluation and participant engagement

Co-Investigator – University of Southampton

Sabu is Professor of Demography and Global Health at the University of Southampton. Sabu provides support across the ECON projects, particularly in the interpretation and analysis of the study results. He brings expertise in policy impact evaluation and quantitative demography and survey data analysis.

Co-Investigator – University of Southampton

Paurav Shukla is Professor of Marketing and Head of Research for the Digital and Data Driven Marketing Department at the Southampton Business School, University of Southampton. Paurav co-leads our survey studies which aim to understand the impact of food policy on convenience stores and local authorities. He brings expertise in branding and retailing, working mostly with small and medium and large- scale enterprises in informing their marketing strategies.

Co-Investigator – Institue of Fiscal Studies

Britta Augsburg is Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She works closely with Melanie to lead the analysis of household purchase data to identify who uses convenience stores and how nutritional the products are that are purchased from stores. Britta brings expertise in econometric evaluation of nutrition and health policies, and analysis of demand and supply constraints for poor households. 

Co-Investigator – Royal Holloway, University of London

Melanie Luhrmann is Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and fellow at CESifo. She co-leads WP2 with Britta. She will use household purchase data to understand how health policy has changed sales in convenience stores. Melanie brings expertise in econometric evaluation & analysis of large consumer datasets.

Co-Investigator – University of Southampton

John is a Professor in Politics and Public Policy. He co-leads the final project of our study which uses workshops with groups of people involved in shopping at convenience stores (customers, store workers, suppliers, policy makers, local authorities) to build workable strategies to support long-term changes for improving health in this sector. John brings expertise in public health policy and innovations in democratic governance.

Public Co-Investigator

John is an experienced public contributor and a co-investigator for the ECON study, working across all the study packages. He is a regular user of convenience stores. John brings expertise in community empowerment and public contribution to projects assessing ethnic and health inequalities.

Co-Investigator – University of Southampton

Paolo is a lecturer at University of Southampton. Paolo is co-lead of WP4. He will support our workshop study which works with stakeholders across the convenience store sector to design healthy and profitable solutions. He brings expertise in participatory research methods for democratic policy making.