Research Fellow in Policies for Transforming Food Systems

Hours: Part time hours considered up to a maximum of 0.5 FTE/ 18.25 hours per week.  

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Contract Type: Fixed term until 31 January 2026 

Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date: TBC

Expected start date: ASAP 

About the role

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow in Policies Transforming Food Systems to work on a 5-year project, called FoodsEqual, which is funded by the UKRI ‘Transforming Food Systems’ Strategic Priorities fund and commenced in February 2021. The project has a strong Policy Research strand, which this post is requested to support. Aim of the policy research strand is to work with policy, industry and local communities in order to map, analyse, assess, co-design and inform policies for transforming the UK’s food system in more inclusive and socio-environmentally just ways.

Based on the principles of research co-production, the project is envisioned to provide citizens of socio-culturally diverse communities with choice and agency over the food they consume, the chains through which they access their food, and the policy frameworks that are needed to support the vision of a more inclusive and socio-environmentally just agrifood system for all.

About you

The successful candidate should have a PhD in social science and methods from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) or Environmental Sociology background and research experience in agrifood research, and critical policy or sustainability research fields. You should have evidence of the ability to publish or co-author articles in academic journals in the fields of Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Critical Policy and Critical Innovation Studies.

About our Division/School

Please find more information on the Science Policy Research Unit on our website.

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Why work here

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Further Key Information

Please contact Katerina Psarikidou (a.psarikidou@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

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