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MEET OUR RESEARCHERS

Two of the main aims of the Future of Food Programme is to act as a focal point for food system research within the University and to facilitate interactions between Oxford researchers and those outside the university. As such, the programme also functions as a directory of food researchers across the university. Since our definition of the food system is broad, so is the range of research interests covered by our network.

We endevour to keep this list up to date and are continually working to connect with researchers at the University with an interest in food research. If you are a researcher at Oxford and would like to be involved in this food research network, please get in touch.

mzurek

There is never going to be a world where we don't have to make tough choices

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Dr Monika Zurek
paul behrens

Hope arrives when you can imagine a better path to the future and you start taking action to get there

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Professor Paul Behrens
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Food is not a side issue

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Professor Patricia Clavin
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Everyone is a stakeholder when it comes to food

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Dr Anneli Lofstedt
jamie lorimer

How can we better bridge divides about the futures of our diets?

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Professor Jamie Lorimer
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We want people to understand where the possibilities for change lie

26 November 2025
Future of Food profiles: Lucy Yates

Academics

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CHRISTOPHER ADAM

Professor of Development Economics & Head of Department
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SABINA ALKIRE

Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
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PROOCHISTA ARIANA

Director, MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine
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JANINE ARON

Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking
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FRANCES ASHCROFT

GlaxoSmithKline Royal Society Research Professor
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PAUL BEHRENS

British Academy Global Professor
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VENUS BIVAR

Associate Professor of Environmental History
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TAMSIN BLAXTER

Researcher
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AMY BOGAARD

Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology
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MIKE BONSALL

Professor of Mathematical Biology
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TALITHA BROMWICH

Postdoctoral Researcher
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BEN CALDECOTT

Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme
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MICHAEL CLARK

Associate Professor
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PATRICIA CLAVIN

Professor of Modern History
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PAUL COLLIER

Professor of Economics and Public Policy
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RICHARD COMPTON

Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College
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TIM COULSON

Professor of Zoology & Joint Head of Department
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SIMON DADSON

Professor of Hydrology