Christina O’Sullivan is the Campaign & Communications Manager at Feedback, where she manages the ‘Fishy Business’ campaign. Feedback is a campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming the food system. Christina has an MSc in Food Policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University. She has worked at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and the Global Centre for Food Systems Innovation at Michigan State University.

Dr Kelly Reed is an archaeobotanist with interests in food systems, agricultural development and cultural adaptations to environmental change in the past. She is currently the programme manager for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project based at Oxford University.

Ryan D. Andrews (ryandandrews.com) completed his education and training at the University of Northern Colorado, Kent State University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Columbia University. He currently writes and speaks about nutrition, health, and sustainability, teaches at Purchase College, is an adviser with Precision Nutrition, and teaches trauma-sensitive yoga at Silver Hill Hospital.

Will Nicholson is leading the Food Foundation work on metrics for sustainable and healthy diets and the multi-partner initiative, Plating Up Progress, that aims to further their uptake in the food industry. He has a background of working across both industry and NGO initiatives using research and analysis to understand and map how the food industry is responding to challenges around nutritional and environmental issues.

Martin Persson is an Associate Professor at Physical Resource Theory, Department of Space, Earth & Environment at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. In addition to greenhouse gas metrics, his research focuses on the role of agricultural production, trade and consumption in driving tropical deforestation, as well as policies for halting the loss of forests.

This post is written by Helen Breewood, Research and Communications Officer at the FCRN. She also blogs about solving global sustainability issues at The Progress Motive. You can find her on Twitter.

Dr Matt Reed is a sociologist who, before a career in researching the links between technology, farming and food, worked in the food service industry. Dr Dan Keech spent many years working in food NGOs before becoming a researcher with a particular interest in cultural change around food. Prof Damian Maye is a rural geographer with a keen interest in agri-food studies, increasingly focused on questions about meat, and he has fond memories of working at a supermarket deli counter as a student. All three are part of the Countryside and Community Research Institute at The University of Gloucestershire.

In this blog post Tara Garnett, the FCRN’s director, introduces Table, a new collaboration between the University of Oxford, Wageningen University and Research and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, which will launch later this year, and which builds on and ultimately replaces the FCRN. We are in the process of recruiting a strategic coordinator and fundraising director to help take our collaboration forward, so please read on…