Professor Sarah Bridle returns to talk about food – a far cry from her “day job” investigating dark energy and dark matter as Professor in the Manchester University School of Physics and Astronomy! Motivated by the need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, she has diversified her research interests to applying her cosmology experience to agriculture and food research. In addition to her research applying astronomy image analysis techniques to earth observation data she leads the STFC Food Network+, which brings together STFC capabilities and food challenges. You can read about what STFC does here:

https://www.stfcfoodnetwork.org/

In her own words: “When my kids started school I started to think about the next 20 years and beyond. What will the world be like for them? What will I say when they ask me what I did about climate change? Would I be comfortable saying that I used my physics training to just carry on looking at the sky? I have buried myself in the research literature and will summarise the most recent results on food and climate change. I’ll explain the main ways food contributes to climate change, bust some myths about local and organic food, and suggest some ways food could be different in the future”.