The H3 programme is one of four research consortia funded by the £47.5M ‘Transforming UK Food System for Healthy People and a Healthy Environment SPF Programme’ delivered by UKRI, in partnership with the Global Food Security Programme, BBSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, Defra, DHSC, PHE, Innovate UK and FSA.
It aims to fundamentally transform the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre, addressing questions around what we should eat, produce and manufacture and what we should import, taking into account the complex interactions between health, environment and socioeconomic factors.
By co-designing research and training across disciplines and stakeholders, and joining up healthy and accessible consumption with sustainable food production and supply, this Programme will deliver coherent evidence to enable concerted action from policy, business and civil society.
See also: Fix Our Food, Food Systems Equality and Mandala Consortium
Who we are
Principal Investigators
Peter Jackson
Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield and co-Director of the University’s flagship Institute for Sustainable Food.
Duncan Cameron
Professor of Environmental Sustainability, University of Manchester.
Executive Group
Responsible for managing and monitoring the progress of the research,
comprises the leads of each Work Package (WP) and Cross Cutting Themes (CCT).
Anne Blenkinsopp
Consortium Manager at the University of Sheffield.
Samantha Caton
Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Related Research (Public Health) at the University of Sheffield.
Sonal Choudhary
Professor of Sustainable management at the University of York Management School.
Lynn Dicks
University Lecturer in Animal Ecology, at the University of Cambridge.
Louise Dye
Professor of Nutrition and Behaviour at the Human Appetite Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Leeds.
David Evans
Professor of Economic Sociology in the School of Management, at the University of Bristol.
Jonathan Leake
Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions at the University of Sheffield.
Stephen Rolfe
Professor of Plant Science in the School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield.
William Young
Professor of Sustainability and Business in the School of Earth and Environment, at the University of Leeds.
Co-Investigators and Research Associates
Katie Adolphus
Research Fellow in the Human Appetite Research Unit at the University of Leeds.
Mustafa Ali
Research Associate at the Sheffield University Management School
Jonathan Beacham
Research Associate in the School of Management at the University of Bristol.
Katherine Berthon
Research Associate, Agroecology Group, University of Cambridge.
Neil Boyle
Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.
Bernard Corfe
Professor of Human Nutrition and Health at Newcastle University.
Romain Crastes dit Sourd
Lecturer in Business Analytics, Leeds University Business School.
Tim Daniell
Professor of Soil Microbiology in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
Jill Edmondson
EPSRC Living With Environmental Change Fellow in the Department of Plant and Animal Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
Toby Evans
PhD Researcher, Department of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
Sue Hartley
Professor of Ecology in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Sheffield.
Steffen Hirth
Research Fellow in Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.
Peter Ho
Lecturer in Food Processing at the University of Leeds.
Coline Jaworski
Post Doctoral Fellow in evolutionary ecology, Aix-Marseille Université.
Gulbanu Kaptan
Associate Professor in Behavioural Decision Making at the University of Leeds.
Lenny Koh
Professor of Operations Management at the Sheffield University Management School.
Anna Krywoszynska
Associate Professor, University of Oulu.
Meg Lewis
Senior Knowledge Exchange and Impact Manager in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield.
Alan Mackie
Professor of Colloidal Chemistry in the School of Food and Nutrition at the University of Leeds.
Jacob Nickles
Knowledge Exchange Associate in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield.
Christian Reynolds
Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London.
Anthony Ryan
Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield.
Bhavani Shankar
Professorial Research Fellow in Food and Health within the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.
Anne Tallontire
Professor of Sustainability and Business at the University of Leeds.
Jurriaan Ton
Professor of Plant Environmental Signalling in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
Nick Wilkinson
Research Associate, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds.
Samuel Wilkinson
Research Associate at the University of Sheffield.
Harry Wright
Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield.
Stakeholder Advisory Board
Despina Berdeni
ADAS.
Amanda Bennett
AHDB.
Kate Halliwell
Chair, Food & Drink Federation.
Katie Keay
Coop.
Erin Lewis
FSA.
Richard Summers
RAGT Seeds.
Liz Bowles
Soil Association.
Sue Davies
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Academic Advisory Board
Julia Blanchard
Hobart, Tasmania
Marcel Dicke
Wageningen University and Research The Netherlands.
Mailyn Adriana Gonzalez
Bogota, Colombia
Michelle Holdsworth
Montpellier, France.
Lotte Holm
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anne Murcott
Professorial Research Associate, SOAS Food Studies Centre.
Elspeth Probyn
Sydney, Australia.
Sir David Read
Emeritus Professor of Plant Science, University of Sheffield, UK.
Alan Warde
Manchester, UK.
Rick Wilk
Indiana, USA.