Place to Plate: New Connections in Food Research
2 April 2012, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
We look forward to welcoming you for the conference. You should find all the
information you need here. placetoplate@cardiff.ac.uk
Participants
We are expecting at least 30 delegates from across the UK. They come from a range
of universities and academic disciplines. All are currently researching for a PhD or
completed within the last three years. This should make for a friendly, supportive
atmosphere in which to discuss your research and stimulate new thinking about
food.
Discussion sessions
The afternoon discussions are on topics selected following online conversation and
voting. During the morning you will have a chance to suggest questions or comments
related to the themes. Facilitators will use these to guide discussion, it will require
everyone’s active participation. You will be able to move between the three if you
wish.
Venue
All sessions will take place in the Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue,
Cathays Park. Glamorgan Building location map
The venue is less than 10 minutes walk from Cathays station, and approximately 20
minutes walk from Central Station for mainline trains. The Megabus stops right
outside the Student Union on Park Place.
Social Events
To tie in with the conference theme the Graduate Centre will be screening the film
Mid August Lunch on Sunday 1st April, 5pm. It is free and you can just turn up.
Enter the Student Union from Park Place and look for signs to the Graduate Centre.
Place to Plate organisers will be on hand to welcome you. The Student Union is
number 38 on this map .
The conference dinner will be at 6.30pm on Monday 2nd at Milgi, City Road. You will
need to book with us in advance by email and pay £15 on the day (not including
drinks). We will walk to Milgi at the end of the conference – approximately 20
minutes. If you prefer to make your own way here’s a map.
Sustainability
We hope that the event will have as little negative impact on the environment as
possible. This means that:

There will be no printed delegate packs or papers on the day.

Catering will use as much local produce as possible, Fair Trade tea and coffee,
and no disposable materials.
Thanks to the Sustainable Places Research Institute we will provide you with a mug
to use on the day and keep afterwards.
You can help by:

Arriving on foot, bike or by public transport. If you need to come by car please
try to offer others a lift- you can do so through the web page comments.

Let us know if you can no longer attend so we can cater for the right number
and avoid food waste.
Programme
8.30 – 9.00
Registration and Coffee Committee Rooms 1&2
9.00
Opening Address by: Professor Terry Marsden
Paper presentations
Abstracts
9.30 – 9.55
9.55 – 10.20
10.20 –
10.45
Room 0.85
Room 0.86
Chair: Susannah McWilliam
Chair: Kate Knowles
Ray Chan, Cardiff University
C-PLAN
Hannah Pitt, Cardiff
University CPLAN
‘Politic of Meat Production:
Governmentality, License-BuyBack Scheme, and Pig Farming
Industry in post 1997 Hong Kong’
‘Five flavours of fieldwork’
Claire Bloomfield, Cardiff
University C-PLAN
Julie Parsons Plymouth
University
‘(No) Appetite for Change?
Hospital Food and Sustainable
Development’
‘P.S. A sugar sandwich hasn’t
passed my lips since 1982’, an
exploration of ‘taste’ and
‘distaste’ within individual food
narratives.’
Luke Owen, Coventry
University
Marta Wilczek-Watson
Cardiff University ENCAP
‘Sustaining a Short Food Supply
Chain in the global South: A case
study from The Gambia, West
Africa.’
‘Food Rituals: Metacultural
Performances of Self and Other
during a Transnational
Christmas Meal’
10.45 – 11.05 coffee
Paper presentations
11.05 – 11.30
11.30 – 11.55
Room 0.85
Room 0.86
Chair: Hannah Pitt
Chair: Claire Bloomfield
Sue Moore, Cardiff
University SOCSI
Sara Long, Swansea
University
‘From Policy to Plate – A socioecological perspective on the
implementation of healthy eating
policies in primary schools’
'The effect of docosahexaenoic
acid, vitamin and
mineral supplementation on
aggression and impulsivity'
Rebecca Sandover,
University of Exeter
Muzna Rahman Manchester
University
‘Allotment growing: space,
connectivity and knowledge’
“Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous
Conditions: The politics of
eating, reading and subjectivity.”
11.55 – 12.20 Bridin Carroll, University of
Galway
‘Consumption for sustainability:
Examining the nature of
perceptions of consumers in
Ireland of local food and whether
a value-action gap exists’
12.20 –
12.45
Deborah Kwan Cardiff
Metropolitan ‘Talking Healthy
Eating: Women’s experiences of
healthy eating’
Kate Knowles, Cardiff
University ARCHI
‘What is the recipe for a healthy
community?’
12.45 – 1.00
Poster presentations:
Susannah McWilliam Cardiff University, CPLAN ‘Can hospital
foodservice systems care for patients and planet?’
Rachael Durrant, University of Sussex Freeman Centre
'Towards sustainable food: an intention to be system-changing'
Stephanie Baum, Institute of Education, London ‘Men’s
domestic cooking careers’
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00
Keynote Speech: Professor Anne Murcott
‘On the way from place to plate: problematising the popular’
Chair and Discussant : Professor Kevin Morgan
Delegates will be invited to contribute to round table discussions on
the following themes voted for by participants on the place to plate
website placetoplate.wordpress.com. Contributors will be invited to
post comments on these themes throughout the morning, which will
form the basis of discussions. Delegates are invited to move between
themes throughout the afternoon.
3.00
Room 0.85
Room 0.86
Committee Room 1
Round Table
Discussion:
Round Table
Discussion
Round Table
Discussion
Sustainability in
Conventional Food
Systems
Food and Emotion
Food Knowledge and
Choice
Facilitators: Hannah
Pitt & Bella Beynon
Facilitators:
Susannah
McWillliam & Tess
Baxter
Facilitators: Claire
Bloomfield
4.15
Summaries of Round Table Discussions
4.45
Closing Address: Professor Susan Baker
5.00
CLOSE
6.30pm
Conference Dinner: Milgi, City Road, Cardiff
Speakers
Anne Murcott, Professor Emerita (Sociology), South Bank University, London, and
honorary professorships at City University and the University of Nottingham. Her previous
work includes visiting positions in Australian universities and service as editor or editorial
board member of international academic journals and the Food Standards Agency Advisory
Committee on Research. She has authored and co-authored many academic papers and
books, and served as Director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s six-year
Research Programme “The Nation’s Diet: the social science of food choice”. Her research
interests run across the sociology of food, culture and various aspects of health, illness and
medicine.
Terry Marsden Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Professor of
Environmental Policy and Planning, and Co-Director of the BRASS Research Centre. He is a
specialist in international rural development, sustainability and the rural environment and
has published extensively on food issues.
Susan Baker, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University and a Principal Investigator of
the Sustainable Places Research Institute. She has a multidisciplinary background spanning
economics, philosophy and political science and is currently engaged in research on the
interrelationships between social and ecological processes, particularly in relation to climate
change and biodiversity loss.
Kevin Morgan, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University. He has published
extensively on the topic of food, including his jointly authored book The School Food
Revolution, about which he and Roberta Sonnino presented to the United Nations
Commission on Sustainable Development in New York.
This event has received funding from the Graduate College, Cardiff University