food

Grantham Scholar Guy Mayneord led a session on his supervisor Dr Matt Johnson’s work on the thylakoid membrane and photosynthesis. Here, Guy explains the paper and different methods of analysis including atomic force microscopy (AFM).  The thylakoid membrane in the chloroplast of plant cells, where photosynthesis occurs, is a bit […]

For Journal Club Dr Farida Vis presented research that uses Twitter to improve food safety. Here, Grantham Scholar Patience Muchada, […]

Open data could bring enormous benefits to sustainable farming, and the policy that encourages it. Here, Grantham Scholar Daniel Casey […]

For COP21, we and the Worldwide Universities Network hosted a discussion about food systems and climate change. Here, Professor Peter […]

As she joins the University of Sheffield’s delegation to COP21 Professor Michelle Holdsworth explains why this COP is an important opportunity […]

Grantham Scholar Tinashe Mawodza reflects on a Journal Club discussion about cross-species gene movement. Specifically, he explores how this idea […]

Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty publishes new report Hungry for Change after event hosted by Grantham Centre.  Hungry for […]

For Journal Club, Grantham Scholars discussed a paper about unintended outcomes and the tragedy of the anticommons. Here Felix Lim […]

Grantham Scholar Peter Venn introduced plant senescence and crop productivity at this week’s Journal Club.

For this week’s Journal Club, Scholars watched a TED Talk from the Copenhagen Consensus that ranks the world problems. Inspired, […]