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PhD researchers

A list of PhD researchers and their projects can be found below

Name Email Project title Supervision Keywords
Bharath Ananthanarayana ba417@exeter.ac.uk      
Emma Bailey eb824@exeter.ac.uk      
Shahina Begum sb1006@exeter.ac.uk      
Catherine Broomfield cb978@exeter.ac.uk The social licence to farm of beef & sheep farming in grassland regions of the UK: a study of farming’s public engagement in the south-west of England Matt Lobley
Michael Winter
Red meat production
and consumption,
beef and sheep farmers, 
grassland livestock,
public opinion, 
South-West England,
farming practices,
engagement practices
Haohui Cai hc744@exeter.ac.uk      
Ada Cheong ac1001@exeter.ac.uk The Alimentary Unconscious: Science Fiction and the World-Food-System in the Capitalocene Professor Paul Young and Dr Chris Campbell Politics and culture of the Anthropocene, neoliberal capitalist food system, Energy, Humanities
Katharine Clayton kc530@exeter.ac.uk     Politics and culture of the Anthropocene, neoliberal capitalist food system, Energy Humanities
Jen Clements jc1011@exeter.ac.uk      
Sophie Corrigan sc718@exeter.ac.uk     Marine Biological Association, Cefas
Cristina Crizbasan cc577@exeter.ac.uk;     Pottery, consumption, identity, style
Kevin Donkers k.donkers@exeter.ac.uk;      
Beth Dooley ed419@exeter.ac.uk;      
Jess Fagin jf500@exeter.ac.uk “Without the Muslims we’d be out of a job” Constructing nationhood and racial hierarchies through the narrative practices in English sheep slaughterhouses  Harry West, Katharine Tyler  Race, nation, whiteness, Britain, labour, meat, Islamophobia, coloniality, narrative
Jennifer Finlay Jf536@exeter.ac.uk     Food, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity and Human-Animal Relations; Food Markets and Global Trade; Alternative Food Networks and Circular Economy; Labour, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in the Food Sector; Food History, Culture, Heritage and Intellectual Property; Enhancing Food Productivity; Food (In)security, Food Justice and Planetary Health; Pollution and Waste in Food Systems; Tourism, Hospitality and Sustainable Development; Nutrition, Health and Human Performance; Social Isolation and Commensality
Aldith Gauci ag773@exeter.ac.uk;      
Iris Gioti ig250@exeter.ac.uk The Matriarch: Gender, Labour, and Ageing in Cultures of the Hellenic Diaspora Dr Chris Campbell and Dr Felicity Gee Migration, matriarchs, patriarchal capitalism, affective labour, food production, ingredients, feeding, nostalgic foods
Mandy Goddard atg206@exeter.ac.uk;     Creative writing  Land use  Agriculture  Landscape history  Vegetable production  
Sophie Hearn cc577@exeter.ac.uk;     Sustainable diets, meat reduction, food preferences, food choice, diet change
Linda Henderson lh650@exeter.ac.uk “Looking after the Babes” – Class, Gender, and the Nature of Scientific Improvement – a case study of the Aylesbury Duck Industry 1820-1920 Henry French & Jane Whittle History of Duck production, cottage industry, 19th century agricultural and domestic science education, 19th century horticultural and agricultural shows, gender and class in 19th Century poultry production
Hatty Hopkinson hh591@exeter.ac.uk;      
Jed Hilton jh1225@exeter.ac.uk The Chef as Activist: The Changing Role and Social Engagement of Contemporary Chefs  Harry West
Christopher Thorpe 
Chefs, hospitality, food ethics, sustainability, restaurant history, food quality
Jack Jarvis 0jj421@exeter.ac.uk     Benefits, Improvement, Reduction, Sustainability, Impact
Megan Larmer ml581@exeter.ac.uk Towards an edible ethic: land-use, gastronomy, and the politics of rurality in the Hudson Valley Dr. Harry G. West
Dr. Celia Plender
Food, farming, agriculture, gastronomy, heritage, hope, nostalgia, prefigurative, queer, seeds, cider, philanthropy, anthropology, ethnography
Jill Lidgey jl1127@exeter.ac.uk;      
Guy Lomax G.Lomax@exeter.ac.uk;     GHG emissions, land use, soil health, livestock, food systems.
Aoife Maher am1239@exeter.ac.uk;     Horticulture, Food systems, Food growing, Agriculture, Sociology
Oli Moore om360@exeter.ac.uk More-than-food: Reimagining diets in the modern zoo and the impact of zoo professionalisation on changing captive primate diets.  Dr Angela Cassidy and Prof. Michael Schillmeier  Nutrition, zoos, captive, animals, science, knowledge, feeding
Hannah Mortimer hcm218@exeter.ac.uk;     Human-livestock-environment interactions, biodiversity, regenerative farming, nature-friendly farming
Katherine Mudge km609@exeter.ac.uk;      
Rose Muller r.muller@pgr.reading.ac.uk     GHG emissions, land use, soil health, livestock, food systems.
Giulia Nicolini Gn290@exeter.ac.uk;     Culture, environment, sustainability, seafood, markets
Bethany Parkes bap213@exeter.ac.uk     Food Markets and Global Trade;Food (In)security, Food Justice and Planetary Health;Nutrition, Health and Human Performance
Léna Prouchet lena.prouchet@exeter.ac.uk Understanding the nexus between NGO and public actors’ interventions and the emergence, the development, and the sustainability of productive projects among indigenous forest communities. Stefano Pascucci
Greg Molecke
Jane Wills 
Indigenous peoples, entrepreneurship, NGOs, development projects, cash crops, climate justice 
Ali Ali Redha aa1249@exeter.ac.uk Improving the bioavailability of health-promoting phytochemicals found in vegetables for enhanced bioactivity Dr Luciana Torquati and Prof Geoffrey Nash from the University of Exeter
Prof Mike Gidley and Dr Daniel Cozzolino from The University of Queensland
Phytochemicals, broccoli, glucoraphanin, sulforaphane, encapsulation, bioavailability, infrared spectroscopy
Denise Ross dr356@exeter.ac.uk;      
Fatma Sabet fs374@exeter.ac.uk Theorising Sustainable School Food as Reflected in Meals and Education Practices in Primary Schools in England Brahm Norwich
Neil Harrison
Justin Dillon
Sustainability, sustainable school food, public health, environmental sciences education
Anna Seecharan as1472@exeter.ac.uk Food knowledge in migratory bodies: an embodied approach to smell/taste memories through time and space. Harry G West
Katharine Tyler
Food, senses, smell/taste, identity, belonging, race and processes of racialisation, sensory ethnography
Fiona Schroeder facs202@exeter.ac.uk The Final Frontier: Extraterrestrial New Worlds and Anglophone Interplanetary Romance, 1865-1914 Professor Paul Young (Exeter) and Professor Andrew Mangham (Reading).  Literature, Victorian, imperialism, capitalism, interplanetary, globalisation, frontiers, resources, food, space, cities
Diana Valencia-Duarte dv246@exeter.ac.uk 'The Peasant Food Question': Agrarian reforms, depeasantisation and food sovereignty in dispute, Colombia, 1961-2013 Prof Stacey Hynd and Dr Silvia Espelt-Bombin Peasantry, food sovereignty, environmental history, comparative history, agrarian question, agrarian reform
Jessica Virgili jv326@exeter.ac.uk     Association for Nutrition; The Nutrition Society; British Mass Spectometry Society. 
Veronica White vmw210@exeter.ac.uk Visualising future food: imaginaries of UK food system transformation Dr Saffron O’Neill, Dr Angela Cassidy and Dr Julie Barnett Future food systems, visuals and photography, climate change, imaginaries
Konstancja Woźniacka kw615@exeter.ac.uk     Food, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity and Human-Animal Relations; Pollution and Waste in Food Systems; Enhancing Food Productivity;