Community Food Co-created Markets

Meet The Team

Introducing the team behind the design and the development of the Community Food: Co-Created Markets Project

A member of staff crouching down next to the boxes of fruit and reaching to pick something up.A member of staff checking the price list while they serve a customer who has a basket of veg placed on the counter.Two customers photographed from behind being served by a member of the research team at the till.

Three members of staff standing around a table where a creative activity with clay is taking place.Members of the project team standing together while one of them points at something towards the camera but out of frame.A member of the project team leaning on a table and talking to a customer next to them. The customer is resting a Wester Common Unity Market tote bag on the counter.

 

 

Principal Investigator

Ada Garcia is a senior lecturer in public health nutrition with 15 years of experience conducting research in community nutrition projects in the West of Scotland. 

Co-Investigators

Professor Emilie Combet: Project Co-Lead (Human Nutrition) is a nutrition scientist with experience in studying dietary intake and dietary behaviours and designing human interventions. 

Dr. Stephanie Chambers: Project Co-lead (Social Science). Leads the qualitative research component. Dr Stephanie Chambers is a social scientist with over 15 years' experience of using qualitative methods to study food and wellbeing in the context of inequalities. 

Jill Muirie: Project Co-Lead is the Public Health Programme Manager at Glasgow Centre for Population Health and Chair of the Glasgow Food Policy Partnership. She has extensive experience in community engagement projects, with particular focus on sustainable food and food insecurity. 

Ms. Lydia Stewart: Project Co-lead (Art Research). Leads the art research component. Lydia Stewart is a transdisciplinary designer, lecturer, and researcher at the Glasgow School of Art with over 10 years of experience in designing with communities through practice-based engagements. Her participatory methods for public engagement in art and design research, focus on complex social spaces for systemic change (food systems) through relational and narrative mapping. 

Dr. Frederick Ho: is a Senior Lecturer (Public Health) at the University of Glasgow. He is admitted as a Chartered Statistician (CStat) in the Royal Statistical Society. He has extensive experience using R and various analytical techniques to handle big data on epidemiology and precision public health projects. 

Dr. Eleanor Grieve: is a Senior Lecturer (Health Economic & Health Technology Assessment) at the University of Glasgow. She has over 12 years of experience of methodological and applied health economic research across numerous multi-disciplinary research projects.

Research Assistants

Dr Ellen Williamson: is a research assistant who will assist in conducting the study. She has a PhD in Food, Nutrition and Health and has experience in running nutritional interventions in human research. 

Dr Maryam Ishaq: is a research assistant who will assist in conducting the study. She has a PhD in nutrition related subjects and has experience in qualitative research in the context of food systems and diet inequalities.  

Research Administrative Assistant

Thalia Groucott: is a research administrative assistant who will assist in community engagement and recruitment for the study. They have experience running a community food project in Govan and promoting access to sustainable nutritious food across the city.