Talks and discussions on food security research and action projects in the midlands.

Programme

09.30 coffee
10.15 Talk: Food Power Sandwell
10.50 Talk: Wendy Eades: Austerity in Coventry tbc
11.25 Coffee break
11.50 Talk: Andy Jolly: Household food insecurity amongst undocumented migrant families in Birmingham
12.25 Talk: Catherine Price: Narratives of food poverty: online media representations in the West Midlands press
13.00 Lunch & posters of projects & research going on throughout the Midlands
14.00 Report back with discussion from participatory workshop 02 May on the questions: What is going on already in the Midlands? What don’t we know? What are the specific food security issues for the Midlands? What policy needs to change? What action needs to change?
15.00 Keynote speaker Professor Elizabeth Dowler: What do we need to know and do about (household) food security in the Midlands?
16.00 close

Please register (whole day, morning or afternoon) at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/asru/registration

If you are a researcher and would like to present a poster, please send an abstract to martine.barons@warwick.ac.uk by 14th June.
If you represent an action project and would like to present a poster, please send a summary of the contents to martine.barons@warwick.ac.uk by 14th June. For a poster template or help in producing a poster, contact martine.barons@warwick.ac.uk by 7th June.