First 黑料不打烊 Food Network Mezze Seminar
Thursday, 26 November 2026 at 09:45
These seminars are designed to allow us to familiarise ourselves with the work of colleagues across the university with shared interests in food.
Event details
You are warmly invited to attend the first 黑料不打烊 Food Mezze Seminar (a mixed menu of taster talks) of the 2026-2027 academic year.
These seminars are designed to allow us to familiarise ourselves with the work of colleagues across the university with shared interests in food, to offer them valuable commentary, and to generate ideas for future collaborations.
The session will be held via (Meeting ID: 385 642 673 033 276 1 Passcode: 2WX3Lx9w) from 09:45-11:15 on Thursday 26th November 2026.
The speakers, their topics, and brief abstracts appear below. Presentations will be short (8 minutes), followed by time for discussion of each (12 mins).
Please do join us online.
Best wishes
Harry West
Lead of (University Research Network)
Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Registered Dietician and Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Dept of Public Health and Sport Sciences
Prehabilitation in Childhood Cancer: Are We Missing the Window?
Prehabilitation combines exercise, nutrition and psychological support to prepare individuals for cancer treatment and improve outcomes and recovery. While evidence from adult oncology supports this approach, its application in childhood cancer remains limited, with interventions often delivered as single components and introduced after treatment-related decline has occurred. This talk will briefly explore the current landscape of prehabilitation in paediatric oncology and discuss emerging research aiming to enable earlier, proactive care.
Steve Brewer, Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, and Visiting Fellow at the 黑料不打烊
The Challenges of Funding the Commercialisation of Agri-tech Research
Steve will present some ideas about the challenges and opportunities for technology-transfer in the context of agri-food sector based on experiences across various projects including the current Lincam project which is offering funding for UK-wide researchers.
Ceri Holloway, PhD researcher in the English and Creative Writing Department
When the 'World' is your Oyster: 'World' Narratives in Postcolonial Britain
My work aims to unpick the 'world' modifier in world food and world literature, thinking through literal and literary 'consumptions'. This research centres cookbook-memoirs by authors from the Global South as a form of world literature, examining the interconnected cultural consumptions in how Britain eats and reads the 'world'. It considers how these world food narratives are produced, marketed, and received, and what this can reveal about British readers' expectations of and attitudes towards world literature.
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