PhD researchers
A list of PhD researchers and their projects can be found below
| Name | Project title | Supervision | Keywords | |
| Bharath Ananthanarayana | ba417@exeter.ac.uk | |||
| Emma Bailey | eb824@exeter.ac.uk | |||
| Shahina Begum | sb1006@exeter.ac.uk | |||
| Catherine Broomfield | cb978@exeter.ac.uk | The social licence to farm of beef & sheep farming in grassland regions of the UK: a study of farming’s public engagement in the south-west of England | Matt Lobley Michael Winter |
Red meat production and consumption, beef and sheep farmers, grassland livestock, public opinion, South-West England, farming practices, engagement practices |
| Haohui Cai | hc744@exeter.ac.uk | |||
| Ada Cheong | ac1001@exeter.ac.uk | The Alimentary Unconscious: Science Fiction and the World-Food-System in the Capitalocene | Professor Paul Young and Dr Chris Campbell | Politics and culture of the Anthropocene, neoliberal capitalist food system, Energy, Humanities |
| Katharine Clayton | kc530@exeter.ac.uk | Politics and culture of the Anthropocene, neoliberal capitalist food system, Energy Humanities | ||
| Jen Clements | jc1011@exeter.ac.uk | |||
| Sophie Corrigan | sc718@exeter.ac.uk | Marine Biological Association, Cefas | ||
| Cristina Crizbasan | cc577@exeter.ac.uk; | Pottery, consumption, identity, style | ||
| Kevin Donkers | k.donkers@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Beth Dooley | ed419@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Jess Fagin | jf500@exeter.ac.uk | “Without the Muslims we’d be out of a job” Constructing nationhood and racial hierarchies through the narrative practices in English sheep slaughterhouses | Harry West, Katharine Tyler | Race, nation, whiteness, Britain, labour, meat, Islamophobia, coloniality, narrative |
| Jennifer Finlay | Jf536@exeter.ac.uk | Food, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity and Human-Animal Relations; Food Markets and Global Trade; Alternative Food Networks and Circular Economy; Labour, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in the Food Sector; Food History, Culture, Heritage and Intellectual Property; Enhancing Food Productivity; Food (In)security, Food Justice and Planetary Health; Pollution and Waste in Food Systems; Tourism, Hospitality and Sustainable Development; Nutrition, Health and Human Performance; Social Isolation and Commensality | ||
| Aldith Gauci | ag773@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Iris Gioti | ig250@exeter.ac.uk | The Matriarch: Gender, Labour, and Ageing in Cultures of the Hellenic Diaspora | Dr Chris Campbell and Dr Felicity Gee | Migration, matriarchs, patriarchal capitalism, affective labour, food production, ingredients, feeding, nostalgic foods |
| Mandy Goddard | atg206@exeter.ac.uk; | Creative writing Land use Agriculture Landscape history Vegetable production | ||
| Sophie Hearn | cc577@exeter.ac.uk; | Sustainable diets, meat reduction, food preferences, food choice, diet change | ||
| Linda Henderson | lh650@exeter.ac.uk | “Looking after the Babes” – Class, Gender, and the Nature of Scientific Improvement – a case study of the Aylesbury Duck Industry 1820-1920 | Henry French & Jane Whittle | History of Duck production, cottage industry, 19th century agricultural and domestic science education, 19th century horticultural and agricultural shows, gender and class in 19th Century poultry production |
| Hatty Hopkinson | hh591@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Jed Hilton | jh1225@exeter.ac.uk | The Chef as Activist: The Changing Role and Social Engagement of Contemporary Chefs | Harry West Christopher Thorpe |
Chefs, hospitality, food ethics, sustainability, restaurant history, food quality |
| Jack Jarvis | 0jj421@exeter.ac.uk | Benefits, Improvement, Reduction, Sustainability, Impact | ||
| Megan Larmer | ml581@exeter.ac.uk | Towards an edible ethic: land-use, gastronomy, and the politics of rurality in the Hudson Valley | Dr. Harry G. West Dr. Celia Plender |
Food, farming, agriculture, gastronomy, heritage, hope, nostalgia, prefigurative, queer, seeds, cider, philanthropy, anthropology, ethnography |
| Jill Lidgey | jl1127@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Guy Lomax | G.Lomax@exeter.ac.uk; | GHG emissions, land use, soil health, livestock, food systems. | ||
| Aoife Maher | am1239@exeter.ac.uk; | Horticulture, Food systems, Food growing, Agriculture, Sociology | ||
| Oli Moore | om360@exeter.ac.uk | More-than-food: Reimagining diets in the modern zoo and the impact of zoo professionalisation on changing captive primate diets. | Dr Angela Cassidy and Prof. Michael Schillmeier | Nutrition, zoos, captive, animals, science, knowledge, feeding |
| Hannah Mortimer | hcm218@exeter.ac.uk; | Human-livestock-environment interactions, biodiversity, regenerative farming, nature-friendly farming | ||
| Katherine Mudge | km609@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Rose Muller | r.muller@pgr.reading.ac.uk | GHG emissions, land use, soil health, livestock, food systems. | ||
| Giulia Nicolini | Gn290@exeter.ac.uk; | Culture, environment, sustainability, seafood, markets | ||
| Bethany Parkes | bap213@exeter.ac.uk | Food Markets and Global Trade;Food (In)security, Food Justice and Planetary Health;Nutrition, Health and Human Performance | ||
| Léna Prouchet | lena.prouchet@exeter.ac.uk | Understanding the nexus between NGO and public actors’ interventions and the emergence, the development, and the sustainability of productive projects among indigenous forest communities. | Stefano Pascucci Greg Molecke Jane Wills |
Indigenous peoples, entrepreneurship, NGOs, development projects, cash crops, climate justice |
| Ali Ali Redha | aa1249@exeter.ac.uk | Improving the bioavailability of health-promoting phytochemicals found in vegetables for enhanced bioactivity | Dr Luciana Torquati and Prof Geoffrey Nash from the University of Exeter Prof Mike Gidley and Dr Daniel Cozzolino from The University of Queensland |
Phytochemicals, broccoli, glucoraphanin, sulforaphane, encapsulation, bioavailability, infrared spectroscopy |
| Denise Ross | dr356@exeter.ac.uk; | |||
| Fatma Sabet | fs374@exeter.ac.uk | Theorising Sustainable School Food as Reflected in Meals and Education Practices in Primary Schools in England | Brahm Norwich Neil Harrison Justin Dillon |
Sustainability, sustainable school food, public health, environmental sciences education |
| Anna Seecharan | as1472@exeter.ac.uk | Food knowledge in migratory bodies: an embodied approach to smell/taste memories through time and space. | Harry G West Katharine Tyler |
Food, senses, smell/taste, identity, belonging, race and processes of racialisation, sensory ethnography |
| Fiona Schroeder | facs202@exeter.ac.uk | The Final Frontier: Extraterrestrial New Worlds and Anglophone Interplanetary Romance, 1865-1914 | Professor Paul Young (Exeter) and Professor Andrew Mangham (Reading). | Literature, Victorian, imperialism, capitalism, interplanetary, globalisation, frontiers, resources, food, space, cities |
| Diana Valencia-Duarte | dv246@exeter.ac.uk | 'The Peasant Food Question': Agrarian reforms, depeasantisation and food sovereignty in dispute, Colombia, 1961-2013 | Prof Stacey Hynd and Dr Silvia Espelt-Bombin | Peasantry, food sovereignty, environmental history, comparative history, agrarian question, agrarian reform |
| Jessica Virgili | jv326@exeter.ac.uk | Association for Nutrition; The Nutrition Society; British Mass Spectometry Society. | ||
| Veronica White | vmw210@exeter.ac.uk | Visualising future food: imaginaries of UK food system transformation | Dr Saffron O’Neill, Dr Angela Cassidy and Dr Julie Barnett | Future food systems, visuals and photography, climate change, imaginaries |
| Konstancja Woźniacka | kw615@exeter.ac.uk | Food, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity and Human-Animal Relations; Pollution and Waste in Food Systems; Enhancing Food Productivity; |


