Dr Rebecca Sandover (she/her)

Dr. Rebecca Sandover is a Senior 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 collaborates with food partnerships and investigates action toward the formation of sustainable food networks in the South West UK. Her engaged 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. She is also focused on researching Public Participation in Climate Change policy making. Rebecca is the PI for the ESRC funded Governing Sustainable Futures Research project that takes a participatory approach to investigating public contestation related to environmental governance.

Rebecca is Geography's Academic Lead for Student Support (Inclusion and Racial Equality) 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.

Rebecca is also a trustee with Food Exeter which has recently set up a new farmers market in the city with the aim to increase access to food for all.

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)