Research Assistant at the Centre for Business in Society (CBis) at Coventry University

My research concerns the food consumption practices of both consumers and businesses, paying particular attention to wasteful habits, routines and behaviours. The transgressive and boundary crossing nature of food means that our interactions as consumers are both embodied and embedded within factors of space, place, nature, culture, society and technology. My research is underlined by a need to move towards more sustainable arrangements of food consumption for consumers and business and intends to understanding the wider social, economic and environment context of food in society to address food waste at the prevention stage.

Researcher at the Centre for Business in Society (CBis) at Coventry University

Elizabeth Bos is a researcher at the Centre for Business in Society (CBis) at Coventry University. Her research areas include: personal and community food growing, material and virtual spaces, community engagement and development, and the societal, health, and subjective wellbeing outcomes associated with a range of community, land-based, and food growing activities.  Her research focuses on various initiatives of the voluntary and community sector (VCS), social enterprises, and sector partnerships. She is particularly interested in how land based initiatives can support desistance, namely from substance misusing, offending, homelessness and mental health problems.

Research Fellow in Urban Food Sovereignty and Resilience

Dr Chiara Tornaghi is a scholar-activist and Research Fellow in Urban Food Sovereignty and Resilience at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University. The main focus of her current work is around re-conceptualising an agroecological urbanism and co-developing experimental projects around urban food commons.

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Background in Food Technology Education in secondary schools in and around Birmingham for 20+ years.

Set up Social Enterprise, Tasty Waste CIC last year to connect people, and help them to reconnect with food to live healthier and more sustainable lives. Offer practical cookery sessions focusing on using leftovers, wasting less food, saving money, at the same time trying to make balanced meals with less fat, sugar and salt.

Involvement with Love Food Hate Waste, trained as one of their food champions, delivered practical workshops from November 2015 to March 2016 to different community groups in Birmingham trialling recipes to help reduce household food waste by using leftovers, storing food more effectively, planning meals and using the freezer better.

Undergraduate

 (mathematics) student at University of Warwick. One of the coordinators of the Warwick Uni Food Coop Member of the Warwick Allotment Society