Future of Food Symposium 2025 - 21-22nd May, University of Birmingham, UK

[Jordon Lazell]

Future of Food Symposium 2025
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham
21st and 22nd May 2025

Call for papers and contributions
We are delighted to announce that the sixth Future Food Symposium will be held for the first time at the University of Birmingham on 21st and 22nd May 2025. FFS 2025 is being organised by Birmingham Business School which has a reputation for research into responsible business encompassing a variety of food related issues such as food insecurity, food waste and food and climate change. It is being held in conjunction with the Centre For Responsible Business and Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA). The event will provide a multidisciplinary perspective on food related issues and we envisage a mix of presentations not only from academics but also from community groups, policy makers and business practitioners. We hope that this mix of contributions will generate some lively discussions.

FFS 2025 will be free to attend and will be held in University House on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus. The event is being organised by Dr Sheena Leek and Dr Emma Surman together with colleagues in the Marketing Department.
Submit Your Abstracts (max 500 words) by Monday, 17th March 2025.

Please consider submitting an abstract to the session 'Sticky Progress and Unrealised Opportunities for Food Waste' organised by Dr. Jordon Lazell, Dr. Annesha Makhal, and Dr. Scott Jones. 

Track description: Food waste is a complex multi-faceted issue (Galli et al., 2019; Gille, 2012; Schanes et al., 2018). Whilst a common consensus has formed that food waste should be mitigated against, advancements have been slow, sticky and incremental (Cattaneo, et al., 2021). A proliferation of ideas and heightened awareness have only begun to realise the systematic changes to production and consumption arrangements required to adequately address the problem (Pelt et al., 2020; Reynolds et al., 2019). Research however continues to provide more intricate and explorative reasons for food waste as well as prevention strategies in the context of households, business and throughout the wider food supply chain (Kim et al., 2020; Papargyropoulou et al., 2022).
In this context we welcome conceptual and empirical work. This track is open to multidisciplinary approaches, and varied research contexts from across the globe.

Submit abstracts to jordon...@essex.ac.uk