The MANDALA consortium seeks to appoint a Research Fellow in Epidemiology or Health Data Science. 2 year position collecting & analysing web-scraped & secondary data on food retailing & consumer behaviour. ⏰Closing date: 10 January 2024 Apply at: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

📢 Was #COP28 a win for #foodsystems? Our Responsible Investment Engagement Lead Sarah Buszard who was at COP28 UAE examines the evidence in our latest #podcast 🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/48dEEpk ProVeg International Greenbank Act4Food [1/3]

Enjoyed these three poignant short (14 min) stories, which resonate with work we're doing in Mandala – Transforming urban food systems on the community food system Recommended for a quiet moment. bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/…

My Mandala – Transforming urban food systems colleague Leticija Petrovic The Food Foundation introduces this first #ORFC24 panel on the role of local authorities in changing #foodsystems #foodpolicy

Last session here in Oxford #ORFC24 talking Public Food Procurement with Kelly Parsons Kelly Parsons from Mandala – Transforming urban food systems Pearl Costello Pearl Costello of Food Sense Wales / Synnwyr Bwyd Cymru Sustain’s Sofia Parente and others!

Fab session on the power of public procurement to support agroecological farming with panelists (tagged in pic) sharing their learnings on piloting local, sustainable school meal supply chains. Caterers, farmers & Sustainable Sustainable Food Places blazing new supply trails together!

6⃣ key takeaways from this year's ORFC Our City Food Policy Lead Leticija Petrovic reflects on sessions from Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Sustainable Food Places Mandala – Transforming urban food systems about how we can create fairer #FoodSystems Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3RYFoIy #ORFC2024

📢*NEW* paper to add to our work in this area (mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studi…): Avoiding conflicts of interest and reputational risks associated with population research on food and nutrition: the Food Research risK (FoRK) guidance and toolkit for researchers bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Heard of participatory systems mapping and not sure where to start? A new guidance and framework developed by researchers Improving Health & Cambridge University will help you select the method that’s right for you and think about how to design your project doi.org/10.36399/gla.p…

Researchers interacting with the food industry can be subject to conflicts of interest and reputational risks. New guidance published in The BMJ can help researchers navigate this tricky territory... mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/2… 🧵

ICYM / didn't have time for the long thread this morning on our new Food Research risK (FoRK) toolkit to help researchers navigate industry interactions, here's the whole thing in a minute or so mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/2…

Today we publish the DEPTH Framework for categorising the agentic demands of population health interventions. This builds on our 2016 paper on the role of agency in population health interventions (journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…). Great work from a great team! link.springer.com/article/10.118…

It’s now four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from the Fenland COVID-19 study and the main Fenland Study is helping us discover more about the impact of the pandemic and its long term effects on health behaviours. mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/0…

We’ll be checking in before & after Mandala research projects through a series of short films. Here's a taster of the first film profiling our research with Change Kitchen, a social enterprise in Balsall Health, Birmingham... #foodsystems #healthy #sustainable

Check out this taster film below from Mandala – Transforming urban food systems and if you're interested, watch the whole thing here mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a… We'll be releasing more films on all of our interventions and evaluations over the next year...

Exciting...the first film on interventions being evaluated by Mandala – Transforming urban food systems is out! #foodsystems

Have you seen our new vid about our work with Change Kitchen in Birmingham? Taster👇& watch the whole thing at mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a… The Food Foundation Global Food Security Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research UK Research and Innovation Dr Tracey Duncombe FixOurFood BeanMeals UK Food Systems Equality Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People (H3) VegCities Nesta

Of interest Mandala – Transforming urban food systems Kelly Parsons theguardian.com/environment/20…

Register for the webinar - Optimising surplus food redistribution operations for business and society - which focuses on how logistics can help improve surplus food redistribution. Date: 16/10/2024 Time: 12noon-13pm BST Registration: cranfield.ac.uk/som/events/sup…