High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. Joanna Horton is a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Queensland in the Centre for Policy Futures investigating food systems. Joanna is interested in local food systems, the policy and governance of these systems to be fair, writing novels (very helpful for PhD thesis), and has explored this topic both in her Masters and PhD in Chicago (USA) and Australia respectively. Joanna has also worked at the CSIRO where she in the Data61 Insights Team, helping to develop scenario planning across a range of sectors. Joanna’s PhD explored the strategic challenges and opportunities faced by Australian civic food networks in attempting to influence mainstream outcomes via processes of multistakeholder governance, and examined the case study of the controversial 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to understand how civil society organisations negotiate the trade-offs between strategic participation and boycott. Her order – Homemade coffee from beans sold by Coffee Mentality in Brisbane.
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Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-horton-ab1629214/?originalSubdomain=au
Researcher profile - https://policy-futures.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/3453/joanna-horton
Journal article - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290112300254X?via%3Dihub
Self-authored book recommendations!
First novel: https://ultimopress.com.au/products/between-you-and-me
Fair Food Futures podcast series: https://fairfoodfutures.buzzsprout.com/
