Shifting power in UK food governance to deliver better outcomes for people and planet
This PhD project seeks to identify strategies for improving food governance to deliver better outcomes for people and planet by examining the role of power asymmetries in the governance of critical and complex challenges facing the UK food system.
This research will involve a critical review of the methods used in existing empirical research on power in food system governance and mixed-methods comparative case studies on the governance of Free School Meals policy and plastic packaging policy to understand how power is contested in diffuse and networked governance environments.
This interdisciplinary project is funded by the Transforming UK Food Systems Strategic Priorities Fund as part of the UK Food System CDT and is being undertaken by Naomi Fallon (September 2022 – September 2025).
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