15 March 2024 – Roslin Institute Image Download the programme This year, the University of Edinburgh’s Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems will host its first annual symposium on the Easter Bush Campus. The theme for this inaugural event is ‘Supporting Food Systems Transformation with Data’. The goal of the symposium is to highlight some of the work by researchers and their global collaborators, to support our vision of healthy people and a healthy planet, through regenerative and ethical food and land use systems. The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems is an interdisciplinary group of approximately 40 staff and 40 PhD students. Our work comes under two broad themes – Food System Transformation, and Healthy People, Healthy Planet. Across and among these, we are concerned with the interface between science, policy and industry; data-driven innovation; and governance and ethics. The event will be held at the Roslin Institute on Friday 15 March in-person, with no hybrid option. It will start at 10 am, and will close at 4 pm followed by a drinks reception. Please note online registration will close on 4 March. PhD students and postdocs are invited to submit a 250-word unstructured abstract to be presented as a poster at the symposium. Presenting authors for all accepted abstracts will have free registration. Register Now Keynote speakers Prof Jennie MacDiarmid Director - Interdisciplinary Centre for Health, Wellbeing & Nutrition University of Aberdeen Contact details Website: Prof Jennie MacDiarmid's web profile Dr Michael Clark Senior Researcher of Sustainable Food Solutions University of Oxford Contact details Website: Dr Michael Clark's web profile Poster sessions Call for Abstracts – Symposium 2024 The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems invites postdocs and PhD students to submit abstracts for the annual symposium. We welcome abstracts from across the various disciplines related to food systems research, including agriculture, economics, nutrition, public health, epidemiology, environmental science, ecology, climate change, and social science. Presenting authors for all accepted abstracts will have free registration. Abstracts should be unstructured and less than 250 words. We will accept abstracts for both completed and work-in-progress research projects. Abstracts should align with one or more of our thematic research areas: Food systems, nutrition and health Sustainable land and environmental resource use Planetary Health and One Health. Poster sessions will run in the lunch time breaks. Submit an abstract by 5pm on 23 February by contacting: Clarinda.brown@ed.ac.uk Location The symposium is taking place in the Auditorium of the Roslin Institute which is part of the Easter Bush campus of the University of Edinburgh. HTML Contact us If you have any questions about this event please contact us by email: Clarinda.brown@ed.ac.uk This article was published on 2024-09-02
