Join CAT students for a free lecture on Civil food resilience and UK preparedness for food system shocks by guest lecturer Tim Lang on Thursday 12 December at 7pm.
We are delighted to welcome Tim Lang to lecture during our postgraduate teaching week for the module Food Systems and Sustainability.
In this hour and a half lecture and Q&A, Tim Lang will consider whether the UK food system is resilient (capable of bouncing back from shock). UK governments assure us food security is robust. The National Risk Register 2023 gives only one food risk of 89 facing the country. Many analysts disagree, pointing to climate change, geopolitics, prices, food ‘weaponisation’, and the fragilities of Just-in-Time logistics. In particular, the lecture focuses on the role of the public, asking: what would civil food resilience look like?
Key information
- Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Date: Thursday 12 November
- Start and finish times: 7pm-8:30pm
- Location: Sheppard Theatre, WISE building
- Free entry but limited spaces so please sign up in advance
- Book an evening meal in CAT’s café and join our students to discuss and debate before the lecture begins.
- This can be prebooked for £10 alongside your public lecture booking below.
- Will be served at 6:00pm before the lecture begins.
- This can only be prebooked before the event and cannot be purchased onsite.
- Lecture is recorded for student learning purposes only and won’t be available publicly online. Book to join us in person.
- If you have any questions about this event please direct them to gsmo@cat.org.uk.
Speaker bio
Tim Lang is Professor Emeritus of Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London. Hill farming in Lancashire in the 1970s formed his interest in policy tensions over food, health, environment, politics and culture which he’s worked on ever since. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. His latest book is Feeding Britain (Pelican pb 2021). He’s spent the last two years researching the state of UK civil food resilience for the National Preparedness Commission.
