Dr Rebecca Sandover

Personal statement:

My research interests focus on Sustainable Food Networks, food policy partnerships and Public Participation in Climate Change policy making. Using a knowledge co-production approach, I have been investigating action toward the formation of sustainable food networks in the South West UK. I am particularly focused on building local food partnerships with local authorities, boosting access to sustainable local food, addressing food insecurity and issues of health and wellbeing. Recently, I have also been researching Public Participation in Climate Change policy making, exploring the setting and running of the Devon Climate Emergency’s Climate Assembly

Key topic areas of research or interest:

sustainable food, sustainable food networks, food policy, public participation in climate change policy making, environmental governance, multi level governance, coproduction, participatory research practices, scholar activism, peoples knowledge, experiential education

Publications:

Contrasting Views of Citizens’ Assemblies, https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4019,Politics and Governance

Participatory Food Cities, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/9/3548, Sustainability

A Very Public Cull, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718518302501?via%3Dihub, Geoforum

Food’s Cultural Geographies, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118384466.ch30, The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

Climate Stories, https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/339/2022/, Geoscience Communication

Experiential learning and the visceral practice of ‘healthy eating’, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00167487.2015.12093970, Geography