A collaboration between The University of Manchester, Edinburgh University, Essex University, Lancaster University and Leeds University with Fellowships based at Cardiff University, Queens University Belfast and The University of Salford
Management Group
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Mark HarveyMark is the Principal Investigator for the SPRG project ‘Water consumption and Markets’. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex where he is the Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI). He is working on the ‘new competition for land’, in the context of peak oil, global climate change, and increasing world demand for food. His research interests focus on developing a theoretical and empirical economic sociology across a range of fields including, European food consumption, production and retailing, biotechnology, welfare regimes and the emergent bioeconomy in Europe, USA and Brazil
SPRG Researchers
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Adrian EvansAdrian is a senior research officer working at the University of Essex on the SPRG project 'Bottled water consumption and markets.' He has previously worked on the EU-funded Welfare Quality project investigating the consumption and retail of animal welfare-friendly foods across Europe. He is also the book review editor for the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. He has a particular interest in theories of practice and in developing novel methodologies to explore embodied practices within divergent research settings - ranging from archival research to exploring the practical ethics-aesthetics of contemporary food consumption. His research interests also include science and technology studies, historical geography and material-culture studies.
