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Chino Bayoneta

April 4, 2025

Chino is a Content Manager at FixOurFood, where he collaborates with researchers to create media and content that translates their work into accessible reports and guides, increasing awareness for real-world applications. Previously, Chino worked in the banking industry as a marketing and brand manager, leading multi-channel marketing initiatives—including a sustainability campaign that promoted financial services […]

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Dr Kellie E. Smith

March 6, 2025

Kellie is a Research Fellow in Regenerative Agriculture in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Her role in FixourFood is through the University of Leeds farm, where she uses regenerative agricultural principals alongside conventional farming practices to measure impact on soil, plant health, physiology and associated microbial and insect biodiversity. Kellie completed her PhD […]

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Declan Jackson

November 18, 2024

Declan is a research trainee at the University of York having recently completed his MSc in corporate sustainability and environmental management in the Department of Environment and Geography. While Declan’s main research focuses on how to better enable socially equitable and environmentally regenerative organising, with FixOurFood, he’ll be exploring how we might maximise the nutrition […]

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Michelle Scaife

October 11, 2024

Michelle is the Project Coordinator for the FixOurFood in Schools team at the University of York. With 24 years of experience at the University, she has spent the last four years contributing to various teams within the Public Health & Society Research Group, and previously worked in the Department of Biology. As a mum of […]

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Dr. Zeynep Caferoglu Akin

October 3, 2024

Dr. Zeynep Caferoglu Akin is an Associate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of York’s Department of Health Sciences. She is currently working on the school food work stream of the FixOurFood project, focusing on how sustainable food systems can improve children’s health and wellbeing. Her research interests lie […]

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Dr Albert Muleke

July 22, 2024

Albert is a Research Fellow in Modelling Agricultural Systems at the Cranfield Environment Centre, Cranfield University. His core expertise lies in agricultural sustainability, climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation. His research within the FixOurFood programme focuses on integrated modelling of regenerative farming systems, specifically evaluating the impacts of transitioning to regenerative practices within the […]

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Dr Georgios Pexas

July 3, 2024

Georgios is a Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability Assessment at the Cranfield Environment Centre, Cranfield University. He is an environmental biologist by training that has specialised, through MSc, PhD, and Postdoctoral studies and research, in spatiotemporal data analytics and modelling for informing environmental management and conservation strategies. His current work involves the development and application of […]

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Dr. Ferne Edwards

April 23, 2024

Ferne is an interdisciplinary social scientist based at the Centre for Food Policy, City St George’s, University London. Her work explores the justice, politics and sustainability of diverse food economies in city-regions. Ferne has conducted ethnographies on food waste, urban beekeeping, alternative food economies, food sharing and food policy in Australia, Venezuela, Spain, Norway and […]

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Rob Oxley

November 9, 2023

Rob is a Research Trainee in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Having recently completed an MSc in Health and Social Care, Rob has a strong interest in reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes. He currently works on the auto-enrolment of free school meals project as part of FixOurFood, and […]

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Louise Padgett

October 11, 2023

Louise is a Research Associate working on the Autoenrolment of free school meals project as well as providing support to the wider FixOurFood school food workstream. Her research interests include the evaluation of public health interventions using qualitative and evidence synthesis research methods. Louise has a BSc in Public Health Nutrition, a Master of Research […]

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