Dr Elaine Swan is a critical race feminist food studies scholar based at the University of Sussex Business School, member of the Future of Work hub and a fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme. In Australia, she studied food social enterprises, particularly those with an intercultural dimension, and wrote a book and several articles on what she calls food pedagogies. Since moving back to London, she has been researching foodwork across various domains and working alongside of the Tower Hamlets Food partnership.
Elaine works with ethnographic and qualitative methods, and recent work includes COVID-19 foodwork, race, gender, class and food justice: an intersectional feminist analysis; Foodwork: racialised,gendered and classed labours and a special issue on the Sensory politics of food pedagogies. She is co-editing a Special Issue of the journal Gender, Work and Organization, on foodwork and co-organising a two day symposium on the politics of storying food.