Current

New Book Series: Food, Media, and Communication

The series, which will be published with Peter Lang in English or French, will be the first book series that will specifically address food from a communications perspective. If you have a monograph, edited collection or something shorter in mind, please get in touch.

Communicating Scotland Through Food: From Devolution to Possible Futures

This volume will specifically focus on the role of media, language, and communication broadly in shaping Scotland’s vision about itself and others, addressing a notable gap in discussions around Scotland’s relationship to food. Edited by Ashli Stokes, Ana Tominc and Maryam Ishaq. More

Past

I Farmer: Narratives about Self, Land, and the Future of Farming

This pump priming project, sponsored by the Scottish Alliance for Food (2024), focused on farmers and their identity in Scotland.

In collaboration with Ben McCormick and David McBey from The Rowett Institute, Aberdeen University, adn Stacey Marko (QMU) as an RA.

Food and Cooking on Early Television

This edited collection focuses on food and cooking on early TV in Europe. The book was shortlisted for the MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2023.

Listen to the podcast below in which my colleagues Kevin Geddes, Donald Reid and I discuss this topic.

‘Bendy Banana’ and the EU Regulation in the British Press

The project “Representing food in UK media before and during the Brexit campaign: Policy, regulation and national food myths” was supported by The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland – Carnegie Incentive Grant (2020). More on bendy banana here and here.

Listen about this project in the video below.

ASFS Interview

In 2023, at the occasion of being elected President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, I was interviewed for the Membership Spotlight. You can find the interview here.