The Bristol Collegiate Research Society is a body comprising academic and external members who are committed to sponsoring and supporting an annual academic symposium on research topics with a upmost relevance. In 2023, the theme of the Symposium will be sustainable food systems in the face of global human-made catastrophes. The Society has invited the Bristol Veterinary School, within the Faculty of Health Sciences, to host and organise the 2023 symposium and public lecture. The symposium will bring together international experts from many facets of research and policy development to highlight advances that have been made and interventions that are being taken to ensure sustainable food production in the face of human-made catastrophes, particularly in a global context. Posters presentations from ECRs are invited and we will contact you after registration. We look forward to welcoming you to Bristol.
Free lunch and taster sessions are provided and will showcase sustainable options developed through a research partnership with the university catering team.
Public Lecture: The challenge of providing healthy, sustainable and equitable food for all
23rd March 2023 18:00 - 19:30
Bristol City Hall, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR
Professor Sir Charles Godfray
Charles Godfray is a population biologist with broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy. He has spent his career at Oxford University and Imperial College London and is currently Professor of Population Biology and Director of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford. His research has involved experimental and theoretical studies in population and community ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. Currently he is working on the control of malaria vectoring mosquitoes using novel genetic interventions, and the health, environmental and economic consequences of changing patterns of consumption of meat and dairy. He is particularly interested in food security and chaired the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Office of Science’s Foresight project on the Future of Food and Farming and until recently chaired Defra’s Science Advisory Council. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001 and knighted in 2017.
Programme
23 March 2023:
- Day 1 Session A 10:00-12:30 - Pandemics and global health (chairs Mark Eisler and Mick Bailey)
- Day 1 Session B 14:00 - 16:45 - Climate change, global food security and health (chair Dan Bernie - Met Office)
24 March 2023:
- Day 2 Session A 9:30 - 12:00 - Local challenges and solutions – think global, act local (chair Taro Takahashi)
- Day 2 Session B 13:30 - 16:15 - Towards zero waste (chairs Daniel Enriquez Hidalgo and Heike Rolker)
More information and tickets, tickets are £175 each and include lunch, entertaining taster sessions and conference transport from central Bristol on both days. Registration for the public lecture is free.