The Bristol Researchers’ Food Justice Network seeks to support the transition to a fairer food system through research, critical discussion and the creation of supportive spaces to explore ideas.Â
Researchers, academics and students from different disciplines join the Food Justice Network because they are interested in social and environmental justice and food sustainability at local, regional, and global scale.
The Network is an inclusive space to connect researchers who are undertaking critical and impactful research that has the potential to challenge the power structures that shape unequitable and unsustainable food systems.
The group work together to bring together their interdisciplinary expertise and collaborate with research projects and local action-orientated events.
Members of the network are ideologically driven by personal commitments to fairer and healthier food systems. The Network is an egalitarian space for stimulation and support towards the revaluation of the relations between food, people, animals and nature.
Our Activities
We hold seminars each academic year. Seminars are an opportunity for researchers to present their work, and seminar attendees to build their understanding of the food system through every presentation of new work.
Some seminars are presentations of work in progress by members of the network, these are internal seminars so we can give presenters the opportunity to present in a friendly setting; these sessions are never recorded.
We also have external seminars which are open to everyone. These are often presentations by guest researchers and practitioners or by network members who have work that they wish to share with a wider audience.
Our network is involved in many research projects ranging from work with people, animals and land and concerning different models of food system production.