Professor Mary Brennan Event details Venue: Auditorium, University of Edinburgh Business School 17:30 Lecture start 18:20: Q&A 18:45 - Drinks Reception. - A small drinks reception will follow the lecture in theBusiness School Concourse. All guest are welcome to attend. Lecture abstract Ignited in the remote fields, cow sheds and shores of South Kerry (and St Finian’s Bay to be more specific!) my love for, immersion in, and battle with, agriculture and food has grown into my academic life’s work. Nurtured on the family dairy farm, developed through my formal 3rd level training in Dublin and Newcastle upon Tyne, and grown through the near and far flung places I have lived, visited and dined in, the participants I have met, the spaces I have explored, and the interdisciplinary environments, research teams and networks I have worked in. This melting pot of ideas, places, spaces, people, data, methodological devices and ways of seeing and investigating the world, has fermented over the years and fundamentally shaped how I see, feel, think about, and investigate people’s daily food lives. At every turn, my research has intersected with key societal and public food, health and sustainability challenges (Food Borne Illness; Obesity; Waste; Healthy Eating), government policies and campaigns to change“less than ideal” food practices (poor food handling; over/under eating; unhealthy diets; throwing away edible food) and increasing interest in, and use of, regulatory and legislative mechanisms to drive social behavioural change. Drawing from these policy rich contexts, I will delve into our daily food lives exploring how our “less than ideal” food related practices (poor food handling; over and under eating; food waste; unbalanced diets) cannot be fully explained by, nor changed through, the knowledge and skills held by each individual performer. Instead, I will argue that in order to really understand how “less than ideal” food practices are shaped and sustained, and to have any chance of intervening with, and/or changing such practices, we must interrogate the power dynamics at play in our global food systems and make sense of how these manifest themselves in how we “do” food in our daily lives. To achieve this, I will explore two everyday food spaces, the domestic kitchen and the primary school canteen. Through these spaces and the daily food practices performed within, I will bring to life how macro and micro level forces are shaping and sustaining “less than ideal” food practices. I will discuss how through adopting a holistic, systems based approach to interrogating such food spaces, we can develop much more nuanced, balanced and creative understandings of the good reasons for “less than ideal” food practices and develop, where appropriate, more grounded and viable behavioural change strategies and programmes. Professor Mary Brennan Oct 02 2019 17.30 - 19.15 Professor Mary Brennan Details of Professor Mary Brennan's inaugural lecture Auditorium, University of Edinburgh Business School
Professor Mary Brennan Event details Venue: Auditorium, University of Edinburgh Business School 17:30 Lecture start 18:20: Q&A 18:45 - Drinks Reception. - A small drinks reception will follow the lecture in theBusiness School Concourse. All guest are welcome to attend. Lecture abstract Ignited in the remote fields, cow sheds and shores of South Kerry (and St Finian’s Bay to be more specific!) my love for, immersion in, and battle with, agriculture and food has grown into my academic life’s work. Nurtured on the family dairy farm, developed through my formal 3rd level training in Dublin and Newcastle upon Tyne, and grown through the near and far flung places I have lived, visited and dined in, the participants I have met, the spaces I have explored, and the interdisciplinary environments, research teams and networks I have worked in. This melting pot of ideas, places, spaces, people, data, methodological devices and ways of seeing and investigating the world, has fermented over the years and fundamentally shaped how I see, feel, think about, and investigate people’s daily food lives. At every turn, my research has intersected with key societal and public food, health and sustainability challenges (Food Borne Illness; Obesity; Waste; Healthy Eating), government policies and campaigns to change“less than ideal” food practices (poor food handling; over/under eating; unhealthy diets; throwing away edible food) and increasing interest in, and use of, regulatory and legislative mechanisms to drive social behavioural change. Drawing from these policy rich contexts, I will delve into our daily food lives exploring how our “less than ideal” food related practices (poor food handling; over and under eating; food waste; unbalanced diets) cannot be fully explained by, nor changed through, the knowledge and skills held by each individual performer. Instead, I will argue that in order to really understand how “less than ideal” food practices are shaped and sustained, and to have any chance of intervening with, and/or changing such practices, we must interrogate the power dynamics at play in our global food systems and make sense of how these manifest themselves in how we “do” food in our daily lives. To achieve this, I will explore two everyday food spaces, the domestic kitchen and the primary school canteen. Through these spaces and the daily food practices performed within, I will bring to life how macro and micro level forces are shaping and sustaining “less than ideal” food practices. I will discuss how through adopting a holistic, systems based approach to interrogating such food spaces, we can develop much more nuanced, balanced and creative understandings of the good reasons for “less than ideal” food practices and develop, where appropriate, more grounded and viable behavioural change strategies and programmes. Professor Mary Brennan Oct 02 2019 17.30 - 19.15 Professor Mary Brennan Details of Professor Mary Brennan's inaugural lecture Auditorium, University of Edinburgh Business School
Oct 02 2019 17.30 - 19.15 Professor Mary Brennan Details of Professor Mary Brennan's inaugural lecture
