Andrew Bevan’s 2-year Fellowship will bring to completion a substantial book project which explores a central human challenge – how to keep food beyond its natural shelf life, in a way that ensures year-long provisions, protection against pests, droughts or wars, and opportunities for trade.
Both direct food preservation techniques and constructed storage facilities have a profound story to tell worldwide, but Europe offers a compelling context because of its complex environments, history and global impact.
This book will provide a fundamentally new understanding of food-keeping from the Palaeolithic to the present, challenging us to reconsider what really ensures our food security, drives our social inequalities or shapes our distinctive diets.
According to Andrew:
It's fantastic to get this opportunity to complete a large book project that has already been several years in the making, but which really needed the support of a Leverhulme Fellowship to move it over the finishing line. I’m looking forward not only to an exciting spell of greater research focus, but also to feeding the results back into teaching, supervision and wider discussion.
Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships are awarded to distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research and facilitate this by the provision of teaching replacement.
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