Food Shines Conference

Event Date : February 19, 2026

Event Location : ARU Campus, Cambridge

UK-based doctoral students of any discipline are invited to join Food Shines to explore current wide-ranging food system challenges at Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus. The conference offers career- and research-boosting presentations, networking opportunities, and chances to help solve multidisciplinary food system challenges.

This conference is free to attend. Food and refreshments will be provided, and travel expenses for UK students will be covered by arrangement. More info at www.aru.ac.uk/foodshines    LinkedIn  

Themes spanning the challenges include:

• Climate risk, agricultural resilience and UK food system implications.
• Strengthening local and sustainable food systems through policy and procurement innovation.
• Driving measurable environmental improvements in the food system through evidence based action.
• Food system resilience and nutrition security.
• Climate and economic risk modelling, scenario modelling and food basket and nutrition modelling.

The The BAFR-UK (Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience in the UK) project is funded by the  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The funding is from the UKRI Strategic Theme on Building a Secure and Resilient World (BSRW).