As large scale participants in food provisioning and consumption practices, academic institutions like universities have a crucial part to play in food sustainability transitions
As a part of the RMIT Sustainable Urban Precincts Project (SUPP) this PhD project is investigating how the eating practices of the students are shaped by the spaces provided by the university and how they may be steered towards more sustainable directions. Using ethnographic and visual methods, the study uses the formal and informal spaces of food consumption and provisioning in and around RMIT’s city campus as key focal points.
The study aims to determine if sustainability transitions and interventions can be designed using the knowledge of how practices of food provisioning and consumption in these spaces interact with or intervene in the eating practices of students.
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Lead researchers
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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