Professor Anne Murcott, SOAS Food Studies Centre, UK  

Anne Murcott is Professorial Research Associate at the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, London; Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham and Professor Emerita London South Bank University. She was Director of the Economic & Social Research Council (UK) Research Programme ‘“The Nation’s Diet” the social science of food choice’ in the 1990s and was editor of Sociology of Health & Illness, and international editor of Food, Culture & Society. Her most recent books include: Waste matters: new perspectives of food and society (The Sociological Review Monograph 2013) with David Evans and Hugh Campbell, The Handbook of Food Research (Bloomsbury 2013) with Warren Belasco and Peter Jackson and Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody (Palgrave forthcoming) with Jakob Klein.