Dr Beth Mead
@bethanmead.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology @ University of Liverpool/ former #TUKFS Fellow. Researching health and eating behaviour in relation to urban food growing, food insecurity, sustainable food systems, wellbeing, appetite and obesity. Views my own. She/her
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Dr Beth Mead
@bethanmead.bsky.social
· Apr 23
Focus on Transforming Urban Food Systems - IOPscienceSearch
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📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #spffoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs
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FOOD ON YOUR FEED:
If you are 16-24y and use social media, please consider taking part in this study (£20 voucher available)
Scan the QR code or email olga.zhiteneva@liverpool.ac.uk
If you are 16-24y and use social media, please consider taking part in this study (£20 voucher available)
Scan the QR code or email olga.zhiteneva@liverpool.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
FOOD ON YOUR FEED:
If you are 16-24y and use social media, please consider taking part in this study (£20 voucher available)
Scan the QR code or email olga.zhiteneva@liverpool.ac.uk
If you are 16-24y and use social media, please consider taking part in this study (£20 voucher available)
Scan the QR code or email olga.zhiteneva@liverpool.ac.uk
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There's just two weeks (and a day) to go until the British Science Festival #BSF25 arrives in Liverpool!
Here's 10 of the many reasons you should join us at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and venues across the city from 10-14 September:
theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...
Here's 10 of the many reasons you should join us at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and venues across the city from 10-14 September:
theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...
10 reasons to go to the British Science Festival in Liverpool
British Science Festival takes over Liverpool from September 10 - 14 and it’s going to be an amazing week of 100+ events. Find out more here.
theguideliverpool.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
There's just two weeks (and a day) to go until the British Science Festival #BSF25 arrives in Liverpool!
Here's 10 of the many reasons you should join us at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and venues across the city from 10-14 September:
theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...
Here's 10 of the many reasons you should join us at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and venues across the city from 10-14 September:
theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...
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Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social
🎉 Excited to announce my stand with the #BritishScienceFestival in Liverpool this September! 🎉 I'll be working with @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, Farm Urban and Compost Works to deliver our joint "City Greens" stand in the Kaz Garden, 12th September.
britishsciencefestival.org/event/city-g... #bsf25
britishsciencefestival.org/event/city-g... #bsf25
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July 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🎉 Excited to announce my stand with the #BritishScienceFestival in Liverpool this September! 🎉 I'll be working with @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, Farm Urban and Compost Works to deliver our joint "City Greens" stand in the Kaz Garden, 12th September.
britishsciencefestival.org/event/city-g... #bsf25
britishsciencefestival.org/event/city-g... #bsf25
📣New publication! Consumer and stakeholder acceptance of urban-grown food. My new food.gov FSA report is published today: science.food.gov.uk/article/1375.... I've also written about it for the #spffoodsystems #tukfs blog ukfoodsystems.ukri.org/2025/06/30/u...
Consumer and Stakeholder Perceptions of Urban-Grown Food | Published in FSA Research and Evidence
By Food Standards Agency, Bethan R. Mead & 1 more. This report outlines findings from a consumer survey, and stakeholder workshops, exploring levels of acceptance of urban grown food.
science.food.gov.uk
June 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📣New publication! Consumer and stakeholder acceptance of urban-grown food. My new food.gov FSA report is published today: science.food.gov.uk/article/1375.... I've also written about it for the #spffoodsystems #tukfs blog ukfoodsystems.ukri.org/2025/06/30/u...
Anyone have a spare 15 mins and would like to help my MSc student out with his dissertation? Participants needed for online survey about thoughts and feelings about eating. Prize draw for a shopping voucher as thanks for taking part! qualtricsxmrz7jpcnb2.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
June 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Anyone have a spare 15 mins and would like to help my MSc student out with his dissertation? Participants needed for online survey about thoughts and feelings about eating. Prize draw for a shopping voucher as thanks for taking part! qualtricsxmrz7jpcnb2.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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🚨 New Publication! 🚨
Enhancing Interoperability Training: Insights from UK Emergency Responders, published in International Journal of Emergency Services.
Our latest paper explores what makes interoperability training effective across UK emergency services...
Enhancing Interoperability Training: Insights from UK Emergency Responders, published in International Journal of Emergency Services.
Our latest paper explores what makes interoperability training effective across UK emergency services...
June 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨 New Publication! 🚨
Enhancing Interoperability Training: Insights from UK Emergency Responders, published in International Journal of Emergency Services.
Our latest paper explores what makes interoperability training effective across UK emergency services...
Enhancing Interoperability Training: Insights from UK Emergency Responders, published in International Journal of Emergency Services.
Our latest paper explores what makes interoperability training effective across UK emergency services...
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✨ Job opportunity! ✨ We're currently seeking a Research Associate in Psychology for a new project led by @fieldmatt.bsky.social which will use machine learning to develop a better understanding of why many people drop out of treatment for gambling problems. More project info at: bit.ly/45WEyVb
Research Associate in Psychology at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate in Psychology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
✨ Job opportunity! ✨ We're currently seeking a Research Associate in Psychology for a new project led by @fieldmatt.bsky.social which will use machine learning to develop a better understanding of why many people drop out of treatment for gambling problems. More project info at: bit.ly/45WEyVb
Interested in the psychology of appetite related to #foodsystems #urbanagriculture #sustainablediets #foodreward or #eatingbehaviour and would enjoy teaching? Come and do a PhD with me! We have 7 PhD/teaching posts available and I’m open to applications for supervision.
The Dept of Psychology @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social are offering SEVEN funded part-time PhD training posts from 1 September 2025. There are associated teaching duties (eg research methods & statistics). For more info and to apply see here: tinyurl.com/yw6zy74f
May 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Interested in the psychology of appetite related to #foodsystems #urbanagriculture #sustainablediets #foodreward or #eatingbehaviour and would enjoy teaching? Come and do a PhD with me! We have 7 PhD/teaching posts available and I’m open to applications for supervision.
Today's "Morning Coffee Read": lnkd.in/ecRJ-5mC
A nice discussion of the role of women in community food growing, and the benefits of community growing for well-being and food justice.
#urbanagriculture #communityfoodgrowing
A nice discussion of the role of women in community food growing, and the benefits of community growing for well-being and food justice.
#urbanagriculture #communityfoodgrowing
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May 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today's "Morning Coffee Read": lnkd.in/ecRJ-5mC
A nice discussion of the role of women in community food growing, and the benefits of community growing for well-being and food justice.
#urbanagriculture #communityfoodgrowing
A nice discussion of the role of women in community food growing, and the benefits of community growing for well-being and food justice.
#urbanagriculture #communityfoodgrowing
📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #urbanfoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs
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May 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #urbanfoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs
📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #spffoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs
Focus on Transforming Urban Food Systems - IOPscienceSearch
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April 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📣Submissions invited to "Transforming Urban Food Systems" - Focus Issue of Environmental Research: Food Systems, guest edited by me and the excellent Saher Hasnain & Siobhan Maderson iopscience.iop.org/collections/... - Please DM me for informal chats/questions. #spffoodsystems #foodsystems #tukfs
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📢 Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy
Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our new UKRI-funded project on dietary health inequalities @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
See below for further details & reach out if any questions.
tinyurl.com/mpwbkdub
Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our new UKRI-funded project on dietary health inequalities @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
See below for further details & reach out if any questions.
tinyurl.com/mpwbkdub
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April 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
📢 Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy
Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our new UKRI-funded project on dietary health inequalities @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
See below for further details & reach out if any questions.
tinyurl.com/mpwbkdub
Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our new UKRI-funded project on dietary health inequalities @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
See below for further details & reach out if any questions.
tinyurl.com/mpwbkdub
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We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
March 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
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🌱 Greengrocer for Queen of Greens Mobile Shop – Join Us!
Are you passionate about affordable, nutritious food? Queen of Greens is hiring a Greengrocer to join our mobile greengrocer project in Liverpool and Knowsley! Help us bring fresh produce to communities in need.
Apply now: buff.ly/ySEcx77
Are you passionate about affordable, nutritious food? Queen of Greens is hiring a Greengrocer to join our mobile greengrocer project in Liverpool and Knowsley! Help us bring fresh produce to communities in need.
Apply now: buff.ly/ySEcx77
March 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🌱 Greengrocer for Queen of Greens Mobile Shop – Join Us!
Are you passionate about affordable, nutritious food? Queen of Greens is hiring a Greengrocer to join our mobile greengrocer project in Liverpool and Knowsley! Help us bring fresh produce to communities in need.
Apply now: buff.ly/ySEcx77
Are you passionate about affordable, nutritious food? Queen of Greens is hiring a Greengrocer to join our mobile greengrocer project in Liverpool and Knowsley! Help us bring fresh produce to communities in need.
Apply now: buff.ly/ySEcx77
I was on Twitter/X for nearly 15 years, having opened a "work" account during my first RA job as an MSc graduate. It feels strange to mothball that account, but being able to clearly follow other researchers here without the ads, irrelevant posts, & general bin-fire X has become is very refreshing!
March 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I was on Twitter/X for nearly 15 years, having opened a "work" account during my first RA job as an MSc graduate. It feels strange to mothball that account, but being able to clearly follow other researchers here without the ads, irrelevant posts, & general bin-fire X has become is very refreshing!
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I wrote a commentary in NF on regulatory responses to UPFs, rehearsing things I (and others) have been saying for some years - governments need to focus policy on companies as well as products - only higher level interventions will shape a healthier food system...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Challenges for regulatory responses to ultra-processed foods - Nature Food
The emergence of ultra-processed foods is closely connected to the commercialization of food systems. Limiting their unrestrained growth may be critical to improving human and planetary health.
www.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I wrote a commentary in NF on regulatory responses to UPFs, rehearsing things I (and others) have been saying for some years - governments need to focus policy on companies as well as products - only higher level interventions will shape a healthier food system...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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🥩New report on cultured meat 👇
Discussion w/ 80 farmers finds concerns shared w/consumers - e.g. it being unnatural.
But farmers also saw opportunities to sell crops/animal by-products as ingredients; or produce cultured meat
www.rau.ac.uk/research/res...
#FoodSystems #FoodSecurity
Discussion w/ 80 farmers finds concerns shared w/consumers - e.g. it being unnatural.
But farmers also saw opportunities to sell crops/animal by-products as ingredients; or produce cultured meat
www.rau.ac.uk/research/res...
#FoodSystems #FoodSecurity
Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming | Royal Agricultural University
Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming This report summarises Cultured Meat & Farmers, a two-year interdisciplinary study, analysing social media, discussing the technology with g...
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March 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🥩New report on cultured meat 👇
Discussion w/ 80 farmers finds concerns shared w/consumers - e.g. it being unnatural.
But farmers also saw opportunities to sell crops/animal by-products as ingredients; or produce cultured meat
www.rau.ac.uk/research/res...
#FoodSystems #FoodSecurity
Discussion w/ 80 farmers finds concerns shared w/consumers - e.g. it being unnatural.
But farmers also saw opportunities to sell crops/animal by-products as ingredients; or produce cultured meat
www.rau.ac.uk/research/res...
#FoodSystems #FoodSecurity
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Our new interactive training tool supports healthcare professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity.
tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2
#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2
#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our new interactive training tool supports healthcare professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity.
tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2
#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2
#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social
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🕵🏼♀️ This year's #BrokenPlate report investigated the affordability of healthy food.
Guest blogger Jean Adams of @mrcepid.bsky.social and our Head of Policy & Advocacy @hannahbrins.bsky.social analyse the results in our latest blog.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mupstv2m
Guest blogger Jean Adams of @mrcepid.bsky.social and our Head of Policy & Advocacy @hannahbrins.bsky.social analyse the results in our latest blog.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mupstv2m
February 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🕵🏼♀️ This year's #BrokenPlate report investigated the affordability of healthy food.
Guest blogger Jean Adams of @mrcepid.bsky.social and our Head of Policy & Advocacy @hannahbrins.bsky.social analyse the results in our latest blog.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mupstv2m
Guest blogger Jean Adams of @mrcepid.bsky.social and our Head of Policy & Advocacy @hannahbrins.bsky.social analyse the results in our latest blog.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mupstv2m
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Recruitment is still open for our study about implementing a new approach to managing obesity.
We would love to hear from professionals working to support health & wellbeing of people living with obesity, especially from social care, local authorities, voluntary sector, ICBs @livunipsyc.bsky.social
We would love to hear from professionals working to support health & wellbeing of people living with obesity, especially from social care, local authorities, voluntary sector, ICBs @livunipsyc.bsky.social
We're conducting a study @liverpooluni.bsky.social about putting an obesity intervention into practice. If you provide weight management & wellbeing support to people living with obesity and would be interested in participating, please contact us (details attached) @arcnwc.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Recruitment is still open for our study about implementing a new approach to managing obesity.
We would love to hear from professionals working to support health & wellbeing of people living with obesity, especially from social care, local authorities, voluntary sector, ICBs @livunipsyc.bsky.social
We would love to hear from professionals working to support health & wellbeing of people living with obesity, especially from social care, local authorities, voluntary sector, ICBs @livunipsyc.bsky.social
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🔥 Hot off the press! ⬇️
A pleasure working with Aimee Pink et dream team to investigate what children and their parents living in Singapore think of plant-based meats, cultivated meat and insect proteins!
🔍: www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
📰: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
A pleasure working with Aimee Pink et dream team to investigate what children and their parents living in Singapore think of plant-based meats, cultivated meat and insect proteins!
🔍: www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
📰: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🔥 Hot off the press! ⬇️
A pleasure working with Aimee Pink et dream team to investigate what children and their parents living in Singapore think of plant-based meats, cultivated meat and insect proteins!
🔍: www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
📰: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
A pleasure working with Aimee Pink et dream team to investigate what children and their parents living in Singapore think of plant-based meats, cultivated meat and insect proteins!
🔍: www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
📰: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Got new important findings that weren't available by the standard abstract deadline? Good news - the late breaking abstract submission is now open for #ECO2025
@easoobesity.bsky.social
@easoobesity.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Got new important findings that weren't available by the standard abstract deadline? Good news - the late breaking abstract submission is now open for #ECO2025
@easoobesity.bsky.social
@easoobesity.bsky.social
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"The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats."
Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat.
#PublicHealth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat.
#PublicHealth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Healthy food costs more than double less healthy options, analysis says
Low-income families are being priced out of being able to afford to eat healthily, a charity warns.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats."
Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat.
#PublicHealth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat.
#PublicHealth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges . Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... #ResearchJobs #FoodPolicy #Health
Details | City, University of London
Details of job vacancy at City, University of London
www.city.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges . Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... #ResearchJobs #FoodPolicy #Health