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Research project

Seminar Series on Food Options, Opinions and Decisions (FOOD): Integrating perspectives on consumer perceptions of food safety, nutrition and waste

  • Start date: 20 January 2015
  • End date: 12 September 2017
  • Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • Partners and collaborators: Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP); Food Standards Agency (FSA); Newcastle University
  • Principal investigator: Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Co-investigators: Dr Nicola Bown (Centre for Decision Research); Dr Gulbanu Kaptan (Centre for Decision Research); Professor Louise Dye (Human Appetite Research Unit)
  • External co-investigators: Professor Lynn Frewer (Newcastle University); Dr Tom Quested (Waste Resources Action Programme); Dr Sian Thomas (Food Standards Agency)

Dr Nicola Bown opening the seminar

Description

Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Dr Gulbanu Kaptan and Dr Nicky Bown received a grant to run a seminar series with Co-Is from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), and Newcastle University. The seminar series aims to understand and improve UK consumers’ decisions about nutrition, food safety, and domestic food waste. The goals align with DEFRA, the Food and Agricultural Organisation and others who use the modern view of ‘food security’ for developed countries, by defining it as access to food that is nutritious, affordable, safe, and sustainable, while producing minimum domestic waste. Better food safety and reduced food waste are high priority for the EU.

Project website

https://cdr.leeds.ac.uk/food-options-opinions-and-decisions/