The University of Sheffield
Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety (CONANX)

Dr Richard Lee

Richard Lee

Address: Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University
Telephone (UK): 0191 222 3816
Telephone (International): +44 191 222 6043
Email: richard.lee@ncl.ac.uk

Richard Lee is a social scientist specialising in the analysis of the agri-food system and the rural environment. He has a background in geography (BSc, Hull), rural development (MSc, Newcastle) and rural social science (MRes, Newcastle). He has carried out research on international food standard setting, socio-technical innovation in food systems, food security policies, interdisciplinary science, rural development in Europe and the historical evolution of agri-food marketing. He was awarded his PhD in 2010 at the Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with the thesis `Setting Science-Based International Food Standards: Defining Dietary Fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission´.

Research

Richard joins the CONANX team as Research Associate with responsibility for the work package `Food Manufacture, Retailing and Health´. He is interested in the co-production of regulation, technoscience, innovation, materiality, demand and choice in the agri-food sector. He draws upon theories of expertise and practice, socio-technical change and organisational studies to undertake qualitative and quantitative research on these issues.

Main Publications