Research output per year
Research output per year
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In you are interested in pursuing a PhD in an areas listed below, please get in touch. 1) Sustainable food systems 2) Religious food markets 3) Circular food economies 4) Refugee food entrepreneurs.
Research activity per year
15 Last checked 2 October 2020.
John is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background in sociology, human geography and latterly management. Before moving to the University of Huddersfield, he worked in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University and for Cities Research Centre at UWE: Bristol. Throughout this period, John's research interests revolved around 'sustainable communities' and 'sustainable food systems' - and he was involved in a number of ESRC and EU funded pojects, including Welfare Quality and Dialrel.
John's current research interests revolve around sustainable food systems, religious food markets, and refugee (food) entrepreneuers. He has been commissoned by NGOs, local authourities, and food certication bodies in the UK and beyond, and has completed work funded by BA/Leverhulme, among others. The question driving much of his research is: What can food tell us about people, place and politics? John holds an ESRC funded PhD in Public Policy and his work continues to have an underlying policy focus.
Before he bacame an academic, John worked for Oxfam in fairtrade for a number of years. His teaching has a specific focus on food system sustainability, circular economy, and environmental management/ policy at both UG and PG level. John is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Norbert Elias Foundation (for a complete list of John's talks before 2014 see www.johnlever.com.)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
John Lever (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
John Lever (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
John Lever (Speaker), Deema Refai (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Radi Haloub (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
John Lever (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Michaela Dhas (Speaker) & John Lever (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
James Scott Vandeventer & John Lever
21/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
14/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
7/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
John Lever & Adrian Barraclough
18/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment