Sustainable School Food: Engaging local authorities, schools and food system actors towards a school food Transformation in England

这一ESRC奖学金提供了一个独特的机会，通过开发可访问的传播材料和为学校食品从业者设计培训工具包，分享我在可持续学校食品、影响政策和实践方面的专业知识。我将通过基于我的博士研究的主要出版物来展示进一步的学术影响力。我还将进行一项新的研究，以解决与食物有关的多种社会问题，并让孩子们直接参与塑造他们的学校食物。学校用餐的可持续性、营养价值和成本使其成为年轻人福祉和当地抗击粮食不安全和气候变化努力的关键。学校青年激进主义日益高涨，迫切要求学校进行食品改造。另一方面，生活成本危机预计将导致人们对学校食物的“竞相”。我的博士研究在英国的三所学校实施并评估了第一个可持续的学校膳食研究干预措施，该干预措施通过体验式食物教育内容得到加强。我开发了一个理论和实践框架，展示了什么对谁有效，对谁有效，如何在什么情况下起作用，并展示了可持续的学校膳食和体验式食物教育应该协同工作。研究结果表明，提高学校食品的健康和环境标准，需要将学校食品系统的主要参与者、学生、餐饮承办商和当地农民置于学校食品转型的核心。基于我在可持续学校食物方面的研究专长，我目前正在为康沃尔开发一个可持续的学校食物景观，作为与康沃尔委员会和可持续食物康沃尔合作的知识交流研究项目的一部分。尽管它不允许我传播我的博士发现，但我目前的角色(2023年1月至12月)完全在我的学校食品工作范围内。作为一个更大的知识交流团队的一员，我正在开发一张多层次的风景地图，将当地食品生产商与康沃尔的学校联系起来。我将重点介绍三个可以建立学校-生产者合作伙伴关系的案例，以及可以扩大机会的案例，强调挑战并制定康沃尔可持续学校食品转型的路线图。这项奖学金将使我能够利用我在博士学位和随后的研究期间与学校、餐饮公司、农民和地方当局等关键的学校食品利益攸关方建立的宝贵伙伴关系。通过这些伙伴关系，我将处于有利地位，传播我的博士发现，并推动政策和实践的变化。例如，角色与卓越学院，他们愿意参与这部电影，并支持我提出的新研究。这笔ESRC奖学金将对我的学术贡献和职业发展轨迹产生重大影响。该奖学金将使我能够扩大我的研究影响，巩固我的博士学位和随后的研究经验，使我成为快速增长的可持续学校食品系统跨学科领域的国际专家。在此期间，我将：--在开放获取、同行评议期刊和国际会议上分享我的博士研究成果。-通过参与面向公众的传播活动来扩大我在现实世界中的影响力，并产生急需的从业者培训。该工具包将包括学校膳食的生命周期评估、财务分析模板、食谱和菜单规划指南、废物称重和管理以及可靠和易于使用的营养分析工具。-发展新的方法技能，规划未来可持续学校食品的研究议程。

This ESRC fellowship offers the unique opportunity to share my expertise in sustainable school food, impact policy and practice by developing accessible dissemination materials and design a training toolkit for school food practitioners. I will demonstrate further academic impact through key publications based on my PhD research. I will also conduct a novel piece of research to address multiple food-related societal issues and engage children directly in shaping their school food. The sustainability, nutritional value and cost of school meals make them key to young people's wellbeing and local efforts to combat food insecurity and climate change. Growing school youth activism, call for an urgent school food transformation. The cost-of-living crisis, on the other hand, is predicted to lead to a 'race to the bottom' for school food. My doctoral study implemented and evaluated the first sustainable school meal research intervention enhanced by an experiential food education content in three schools in England. I developed a theoretical and practical framework, showing what works, for whom, how and in what contexts, and demonstrating that sustainable school meals and experiential food education should work in tandem. Findings suggested that improving the health and environmental standards of school food requires placing key school food system actors, pupils, caterers and local farmers, at the heart of school food transformation. Building on my research expertise in sustainable school food, I am currently developing a sustainable school food landscape for Cornwall as part of a knowledge exchange research project in partnership with Cornwall Council and Sustainable Food Cornwall. Although it has not allowed me to disseminate my PhD findings, my current role (Jan-Dec 2023) is well within my school food work. Part of a larger knowledge exchange team, I am developing a multiple level landscape map where local food producers are linked to schools in Cornwall. I will highlight three cases where school-producer partnership can be established, and where opportunities can be amplified, highlighting challenges and developing a roadmap for sustainable school food transformation for Cornwall. This Fellowship will enable me to leverage the valuable partnerships I established with key school food stakeholders such as schools, caterers, farmers and local authorities during my PhD and subsequent research. Through those partnerships, I will be in a strong position to disseminate my PhD findings and drive policy and practice change. For example, the Academy for Character and Excellence, are willing to take part in the film and support my proposed new research. This ESRC fellowship will have a significant impact on my academic contribution, and career trajectory. The Fellowship will allow me to widen my research impact, consolidate my PhD and subsequent research experience, establish myself as an international expert in the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of sustainable school food systems. During this fellowship I will: - - Share my doctoral research findings in open access, peer reviewed journals, and international conferences. - Extend my real-world impact by engaging in public facing dissemination activities and produce a muchneeded practitioner training. The toolkit will include Life Cycle Assessment for school meals, financial analysis templates, recipe and menu planning guide, waste weighing and management as well as reliable and easy to use nutritional analysis tool. - Develop new methodological skills and plan a future research agenda for sustainable school food.