Are you interested in food, health and the environment? Professor Sarah Bridle from the University of York who are at the forefront of food are joined by people working with food every day and young people passionate about changing our failing food system. 
 
This month’s talk will delve into the problems of the food system and share some inspirations for how we can transform it into one that benefits both population and planet.

About our speaker Professor Sarah Bridle

Sarah is Chair in Food, Climate and Society at the University of York. She is a transdisciplinary researcher driven by the need to tackle climate change, focusing on a quantitative approach to helping transform food systems to steward change to new kinds of futures.

Sarah’s current research focuses on synthesising, exploring and effectively communicating environmental and nutritional impacts of different dietary options, with the aim of driving changes in food production methods and portfolios to be healthy for people and the planet.

Sarah founded the ‘Take a Bite out of Climate Change’ project and is currently Co-Lead of the AFN Network+ (UKRI Agri-food for Net Zero Network+), which brings UK researchers together to seek ways of helping the agri-food industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve its environmental sustainability. Sarah also leads the Metrics Work Package of FixOurFood, which aims to transform the food system in Yorkshire. Sarah was Food and Land Use System Fellow in the Chief Scientific Adviser’s Office at DEFRA in 2021-2.