The FoodSEqual team
Principal Investigator:
Carol Wagstaff
Professor of Crop Quality for Health
Co-Investigators:
Clare Pettinger
Theme II Lead
Katerina Psarikidou
Theme II Lead
Colette Fagan
Phase II Lead
Elaine Swan
Phase III Lead
Research Fellows and Post-Doctoral Research Associates:
PhDs:
- Participatory frameworks for enhancing sustainability and resilience in urban agriculture. [Imogen Hockenhull, University of Reading]
- Food Redistribution in UK Supply Chains and adherence to the UK government’s food and drink waste hierarchy. [Rusudan Gongladze, Cranfield University]
- A ‘Community Food Researcher’ model: exploring the impact of community based research for food systems transformation. [Bramble Gardiner, University of Plymouth]
Leadership Team:
Carol Wagstaff
Principal Investigator
Martin Chadwick
Business Liaison Officer
Jane Bradbeer
Project Manager
Trisha Bennett
Community Liaison Officer
Advisory Board:
Premier Foods is one of Britain’s biggest listed food companies, committed to the UK, employing over 4,000 dedicated colleagues at 15 manufacturing sites and offices. Around 96% of what we sell is made in the UK from quality ingredients, wherever we can sourced sustainably from British suppliers and farmers.
We operate primarily in the ambient food sector which continues to be the largest sector within the total UK grocery market. Our Grocery business is responsible for developing our portfolio of brands in four key categories: Flavourings & Seasonings; Cooking Sauces & Accompaniments; Quick Meals, Snacks & Soups and Ambient Desserts. Our Sweet Treats business is responsible for growing our brands in the Ambient Cakes category.
Barfoots grows, packs and manufactures premium vegetables on the south coast of the UK, near to Chichester. A family business since 1976, Barfoots has grown to be one the UK’s larger produce businesses also having its own operations overseas, including Spain, Senegal, Peru and Argentina. Barfoots is committed to finding better solutions to reducing waste, becoming Carbon neutral (Factory and Farming) by 2025 and providing exciting, nutritious and affordable vegetable products to the UK and European markets.
Wen (Women’s Environmental Network) works both in East London and nationally to support women and their communities to take action for a sustainable and socially just world. Wen works across a wide range of environmental issues, and for over 15 years has been directly supporting women and communities in Tower Hamlets build a better food system by growing, cooking and sharing food and more recently establishing the Tower Hamlets Food Partnership that works cross sector to lobby and support change.