Dr Angelina Sanderson Bellamy
| Biography | Dr Sanderson Bellamy is an Associate Professor of Food Systems in the Department of Applied Sciences and the Centre for Research in Biosciences at UWE Bristol. Her expertise encompasses food production systems, household food consumption, short supply chains, land use and land cover change, ecological resilience and ecosystem services. She uses a social-ecological framework and interdisciplinary methods to investigate the drivers, particularly governance and support structures, of environmental change and the impact of land management on the delivery of ecosystem services. Before working at UWE, Dr Sanderson Bellamy was Senior Research Fellow and Associate Dean for Environmental Sustainability at Cardiff University. She also worked as a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Stanford University’s Wood’s Institute for the Environment. Her research career has been based at interdisciplinary research institutes, where she enjoys collaborating with colleagues across social, natural and physical sciences to tackle today’s grand challenges. Dr Sanderson Bellamy’s undergraduate degree is in Human Biology from Stanford and her PhD is in Ecology from Stockholm University. Her experience draws from working across Latin American and UK food landscapes. She has worked on research projects in Wales (PI, policy implementation of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience), the UK (PI, novel approaches to creating more resilient regional food systems), Mexico (co-I, governance gaps between land use policy and coastal zone conservation), Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia (PI, social and environmental impact of food certification), Brazil (PI, Sustainable soils: climate change mitigation practices for family farms), and Zambia (livestock and crop variety climate change resilience). |
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| Research Interests | I am passionate about researching ways to make our food systems environmentally sustainable, resilient, healthy and just for all people. Due to my interdisciplinary background, I work across many aspects of the food system from production to supply chains to consumption. My theoretical training is in ecology and I use a social-ecological systems framework for much of my work. |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Please see my research interests for an idea of the kinds of projects that I would be interested in supervising. If you share my passions, then my door is open! |