First meeting with the Advisory Board
On the 8th of December we had our first meeting with the project’s Advisory Board!
🎓 The advisory board
The project’s advisory board is a team of fellow researchers and expert professionals in fields relevant to our study that collaborate with us exchanging peer feedback and insights in bi-annual meetings.
We are proud to count in political ethnographer Javier Auyero from University of Texas-Austin, charitable food aid ethnographer Kayleigh Garthwaite from University of Birmingham, food researcher Thirza Andriessen from Wageningen University, social networks expert Miranda Lubbers from Autonomous University of Barcelona, charity sector statistician Diarmuid McDonnell from University of the West of Scotland, sustainability governance expert Wouter Spekkink from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and policy expert Roberto Sensi from Action Aid Italy.
Find more about their expertise and affiliations on our Advisory Board webpage: Who we are: Advisory Board – Food Charities.
💡 The meeting
Alejandro Ciordia and Filippo Oncini shared with them our progress on Research Module I, focused on mapping the diachronic evolution of the charitable food provision (CFP) field in Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands, and Simona, Shiori, and Marga’s presented their work-in-progress first PhD paper.
Simona Amaro’s study explores food seizures from illegal fishing as a non-standard surplus stream for the CFP field in Sicily, while Shiori Hagiwara is writing about the contrasting reality of food charities in Japan, between the government’s food-loss-reduction narrative with food charities’ actual operations that focus on alleviating food poverty. Marga ter Maat presented the progress on her literature review paper on urban ethnographies of food support, zooming in on the selection of the corpus that is to be analysed.
This occasion, thanks to their interesting questions, advice, and feedback, provided us with useful insights and ideas, and gave us a first opportunity to see our work take concrete form and direction. We’re looking forward to our next meeting this year, and to connect with other researchers and experts in our field!
