Social security challenges and rising food insecurity in the UK: A conversation with Liz Dowler

Social security challenges and rising food insecurity in the UK: A conversation with Liz Dowler Wednesday October 4th, 4pm-5:30pm 55 West 125th Street, room 628, New York, NY, 10027 RSVP Join us on October 4th for a roundtable conversation with Liz Dowler, visiting researcher and advocate on the social and policy dimensions of food and human nutrition, and former professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. About Liz Dowler: Liz Dowler continues to work in collaborationwith colleagues from different disciplines and sectors in the UK, elsewhere in Europe and the global South. Her current areas of work include food and poverty, household food security, food rights and justice, both nationally and internationally; local food initiatives; evaluating policy intervention at local and national levels; practice of food ethics. She has also explored consumer identities and perceptions of risk and trust in relation to food and new technologies, and the implications of negotiated new relationships with producers and the food system. Professor Dowler has given advice to national commissions and research on food poverty based on herresearch and experience, as well as non-governmental organisations. She has been a member of several panels and committees giving advice to policy makers (e.g. the UK Food Standards Agency, Department of Environment, Food& Rural Affairs, and NICE). In 2014 she was a member of the Expert External Panel evaluating Framework 7 programme 2006-2013 for Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology (KBBE), for the European Commission. She is a member, and was until recently a Trustee, of the Food Ethics Council, a small ngo working for a more sustainable, just food system.”