Elena Neri
PhD Research Fellow
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences
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.
Forskning
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.
Arbeidserfaring
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)
Prosjekter
EATWELL: a comparative-material semiotic ethnography of food systems and more than human health in Bhutan.
Utvalgte publikasjoner
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 Microbes. Thinking 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 (hillingdonfoodstories.org)
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
- Neri, Elena (2024). Following the Nublang: transforming circulations and entanglements of Western Bhutan.
- Neri, Elena (2024). Nublang, the precious treasure of Western Bhutan.
- Neri, Elena (2023). Presentation on the EATWELL project at the CSSM PhD school 2023.
- Neri, Elena (2023). Thinking like a slime mold and sharing mushroom ice cream: Reflections from the CSSM PhD School.
Ekspertområder
Sist endret: 15.11.2023 17:11