Current: Visiting Lecturer, Harper Adam’s University - DDCros@harper-adams.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Local, county and regional-level food strategy/policy, Community Food Movements & participatory governance, Sustainability & local food systems, civil food systems resilience.
Publications:
Processes of Participation in the Development of Urban Food Strategies: A Comparative Assessment of Exeter and Eindhoven, in Sustainability. 2017.
A Novel Approach to Local level Food Policy Case studies: Application of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, in Novel Techniques in Nutrition & Food Science (NTNF). 2020
Academic Degrees:
PhD in Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City St. George’s University of London
Title: “Negotiating Perceptions of Local Food Production and Sustainability in Local-Level Food Strategies: An Examination of Five UK Food Coalitions”
Academic Awards: City University Doctoral Studentship, 2014 - 2017
This research focused on how cities in the UK are developing local-level food strategies with sustainability as a central framework, and how local food production is intended to address local needs and objectives. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this work explores the beliefs held by policy makers surrounding sustainability and local food within council-civil society partnerships, and how these are negotiated to create a strategy.
Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Learning Enhancement and Development, City St. George’s University of London. (2015 – 2017). Accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
M.A.Sc, Environmental Applied Science and Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (2012 – 2014). Research Topic: “Analyzing Communication Networks in a Budding Industry: Rooftop Urban Agriculture Establishment in Toronto.”
Academic Awards: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2013 - 2014; Ryerson University Graduate Award for academic merit, 2013 – 2014; Ryerson University Graduate Entrance Award, 2012 - 2013
B.A. (Honours), Environmental Studies and Geography, Minor in History. (2005 – 2010). Bishop’s University. Research Topic: “Cool-Climate Viticulture: A Study of the Adaptive Strategies Used by Two Vineyards in Eastern Quebec”
University Teaching:
Food Ethics and Sustainability - Post-Graduate level short course. Visiting Lecturer - Harper Adam’s University (2025).
Culture and Society - Second Year Undergraduate module. Seminar Leader - City St. George’s University of London (2017). Research@City. First Year Undergraduate module. Seminar Leader - City St. George’s University of London (2016).
Researching Society: Qualitative Methods - First Year Undergraduate module. Seminar Leader - City St. George’s University of London (2016).
Doing Qualitative Methods - Second Year Undergraduate module. Seminar Leader - City St. George’s University of London (2015).
Introduction to Sociology - First Year Undergraduate module. Tutorial Leader, Toronto Metropolitan University (2013).