Miss Rachael Durrant

Post:Research Student (SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research)
Email:R.Durrant@sussex.ac.uk
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Biography

Rachael spent much of the past two years working freelance within the UK food and agriculture sector as a consultant researcher and project manager. She is a Cambridge University graduate (Geography) with a master’s in Sustainable Development Advocacy. In addition to her recent work in the area of food and sustainability, she has a portfolio of cross-sector sustainability-related project work.

Role

DPhil Candidate, Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group

University of Sussex

September 2010 – August 2014

Project description:

An investigation into the contribution of organised civil society in the UK towards Sustainability transitions in the sociotechnical trajectories of food production and consumption.  Specifically, the study aims to unpack the various roles that civil society actors play in these transitions.  Key research questions relate to the conditions under which (and processes by which) civil society actors envision and represent the future of food systems and their relationships to them, and how the realisation of these visions and representations is materially empowered or constrained. 

Qualifications

University of Sussex 

DPhil, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

2010 – 2014 (expected)

 

University of Worcester 

MA, Sustainable Development Advocacy, Distinction

2007 – 2008

 

University of Cambridge 

BA hons (MA), Geography, 2.1

2002 – 2006