Topic: The impact of localised food systems on wellbeing

Background
Food produced with a light ecological footprint, as a collective community effort, and distributed through short food chains could contribute to achieving sustainability, resilience and improved wellbeing. This research will further our understanding of the outcomes of such relocalisation initiatives in the East of England on the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities. It will also contribute to an understanding of the wider implications of relocalisation - i.e. its implications for regional and national policy and economy. The research will be part of a wider initiative to actively work together with members of local groups in the East of England to achieve positive and measurable outcomes in terms of betterment of local food production and consumption.

Full details of this PhD project, starting in October 2012, are available
here
http://www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance/pg/essex_coop_studentship2012.pdf

The successful applicant will be based at the University of Essex (working
both at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and Society and Essex Business School), and research activities will involve fieldwork
throughout selected communities in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

If you want to apply for this studentship, please send a one page proposal plus your CV (including details of your most recent academic results) by 13 February 2012 to: Professor Steffen Böhm, Essex Business School, University of Essex, steffen@essex.ac.uk<mailto:steffen@essex.ac.uk>.

Strong candidates will be invited to submit a formal application through
the Essex ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (by 29 February 2012).