Marsha Smith
PhD candidate at Coventry University Business School, Visiting Fellow at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trent University, academic advisor to FoodHall Sheffield, member of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ City Council's Carbon-Neutral by 2028 steering group
Phone: +44 (0) 115 951 5151
Email: smithm93@uni.coventry.ac.uk
Marsha gained ten years’ experience in award-winning community food initiatives before returning to academia to undertake a PhD in social eating. She has worked for the Beacon as a community researcher and written pieces for our Future Food blog.
Marsha contends that public meals at mealtimes, using surplus foods, can be a response to food insecurity and food wastage but are better understood as a new form of commensality, or group eating practice.
During the first UK lockdown of 2020, Marsha set up and moderated emergency food provision coordination groups in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. She published reflections on this experience in The Conversation and an online special edition of The Sociological Review.