Dr Rebecca Sandover (she/her)

Dr. Rebecca Sandover is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter with research interests in Sustainable Food Networks, food policy partnerships and Public Participation in Climate Change policy making. Using a knowledge co-production approach, she has in recent years been investigating action toward the formation of sustainable food networks in the South West UK. Her research is particularly focused on building food partnerships with local authorities, boosting access to sustainable local food, addressing food insecurity and issues of health and wellbeing. Recently, she has also been researching Public Participation in Climate Change policy making, exploring the setting up and running of the Devon Climate Emergency’s Climate Assembly. Rebecca is the PI for the ESRC funded Governing Sustainable Futures Research project where she leads an academic team to work with Project Partners to explore effective environmental governance and public contestation around environmental governance. 

Rebecca is Geography's Academic Lead for Student Support (Racial Equality and Inclusion). Please contact me if you have any experiences effecting you personally you'd like to discuss and I can help you to find ways to receive support.

Broad Research Interests:

• Public Participation in Sustainability Governance
• Sustainable Food Networks
• Place based Environmental policies
• Coproduction and participatory research
• Visceral Learning
• Food Insecurity

Qualifications:

PhD (University of Exeter)
BA (Hons) (University of Exeter)