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Elena Neri

Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Nutrition and Public Health
Phone
+47 38141622
Office I3005 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Areas of responsibility

My food-focused interdisciplinary background includes social anthropology, economics, product development, nutrition and public health. Before embarking on the EATWELL project at the University of Agder, I completed my MA in the Anthropology of Food at SOAS (London) and then worked as a Research Assistant on the ‘Food, with Care’ project, supporting the development of a holistic food strategy for a children’s hospital in Cambridge. My PhD project - EATWELL - involves working as part of a radically interdisciplinary team of researchers, carrying out an ethnography of food systems and more-than-human health in Bhutan. 

Research

There are many elements in the Anthropology of Food that interest me and that are part of my research. I'm committed to using food as a lens to understand more about the world we live in, including: how food systems operate to enforce and perpetrate social inequalities; how food is affecting humans, non-humans and the environment in the Anthropocene; the relationship between food and health (human and more-than-human). I'm also interested in food as a way to explore concepts such as identity, belonging, inclusion and exclusion. 

 

Selected publications

Blog posts:  

Laine, E., & Neri, E. (2023, November 1). Thinking like a slime mold and sharing mushroom ice cream: Reflections from the CSSM PhD School. Centre for the Social Study of MicrobesThinking like a slime mold and sharing mushroom ice cream: Reflections from the CSSM PhD School – The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (socialmicrobes.org)

Neri, E. (2022, November 29). Hillingdon Food Bank: a surface fix to a broken food system. Hillingdon Food Stories. Hillingdon Food Bank: a surface fix | HillingdonFood

 

Short biography

01.09.2023-dd: PhD research fellow in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, UiA

01.12.2022-31.08.2023: Senior Research Assistant on the 'Food, with Care' project, Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire (UK)

(01.09.2021-01.09.2022: MA in Anthropology of Food at SOAS, UK)

01.09.2019-31.08.2021: Food product developer (plant-based sports supplements and health products)

Publications

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