Consumer culture in an age of anxiety (CONANX)

Peter Jackson has been awarded £1.3m from the European Research Council for a new project on 'Consumer culture in an age of anxiety' (CONANX). The programme will involve a team of six researchers, led by Professor Jackson, with co-investigators in Sheffield (Dr Matt Watson) and Sweden (Professor Helene Brembeck), plus a PhD student (also based in Sheffield). The programme is divided into five work packages (see below), phased over the next four years, and will focus on consumer anxieties about food at a range of geographical scales, from the global scale of international food markets to the domestic scale of individual households. The programme will be based in ICoSS, the University's Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences.

The project will allow Professor Jackson to take forward some of the research findings of the recently-completed 'Changing Families, Changing Food' programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a summary of which is now available on the project website (see link right).

Professor Jackson will also be making presentations on his reearch during the forthcoming Festival of Social Science (9 March at 6pm in ICoSS) and at the Association of American Geographers' annual conference in Las Vegas (23 March).