The BAFR-UK (Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience in the UK) project is pleased to launch Food Shines: six paid consultancy placements and a conference exploring current wide-ranging food system challenges. These opportunities are open to UK-based doctoral and PhD students of any discipline.
Food Shines Paid Consultancy Placements – Apply by 1 December 2025
Food Shines is offering six paid consultancy placements with BAFR advisory board member organisations – each of which has identified a food system challenge for the successful candidate to tackle.
These placements, open to UK-based doctoral students of any discipline, will involve desk-based/field research and the delivery of a 10-15 page report addressing the assigned challenge. Placement hosts include the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the Met Office, WWF, WRAP, Better Food Traders and Sustain.
For more info and to apply – see www.aru.ac.uk/foodshines LinkedIn
