Christian Fuentes from the Swedish team in Plateforms has published the article entitled: Unpacking package free shopping: Alternative retailing and the reinvention of the practice of shopping, in the journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969698918310476?dgcid=author A story about the…
The Department of Management is offering a funded three-and-a-half years PhD project to develop research on ‘Sustainable food platforms: A comparative analysis of food provisioning and consumption in Bristol and Oslo’. The project will examine patterns of food consumption –…
Step 5. Focus on your Food Our food is inextricably linked to all the previous steps – waste food, using too much energy and water for production and cooking, and the multiple journeys food takes by air, sea and road.…
Eine Frage der Zubereitung Zwei Wissenschaftlerinnen des Thaer-Instituts erforschen Ernährungspraktiken aus der Genderperspektive Suse Brettin und Meike Brückner werden sich ab dem kommenden Herbst den Duft fremder Küchen um die Nasen wehen lassen. Sie werden Menschen bei der Zubereitung von…
By Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes and Frode Alfnes, Consumption Research Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University. Originally published in Norwegian in the newspaper Nationen. Imagine going into the convenience store to buy food. But instead of going to the left inside the grocery…
Opinion: a radical approach to food sustainability is required to manage the complex set of challenges faced by individuals and society By Mary McCarthy, Clare O’Neill and Shadi Hashem, UCC One could argue that the food industry’s success in meeting…
UCC researchers are seeking 40 families from all over Munster to sign up for an international study into how the way food arrives into the home can influence the sustainability of a household. more
Vom 13.-14. September fand das PLATEFORMS-Auftakttreffen in der Oslo Metropolitan University statt. Im Rahmen intensiver und ergebnisreicher Diskussionen konnten die Projektpartner*innen wichtige Themen sowie weitere Schritte besprechen. Zudem bot das Treffen die Möglichkeit, des gegenseitigen Kennenlernens und – wie es…