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Dr Christian Reynolds

Senior Lecturer in Food Policy

School of Health and Psychological SciencesDepartment of Health Services Research and Management

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Dr Christian Reynolds City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

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Dr Christian Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and is the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy.

Christian is recognised as a global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets. He has worked on these issues in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK, US, and Europe. He is the lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (2019); he has also co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications, as well as multiple reports and book chapters. Christian has given evidence to UK and NZ parliaments on FLW and contributed to the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. Christian also researches sustainable cookery; food history; and the political power of food in international relations.

Christian is the Principal Investigator of 1) AHRC US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network, which provides a platform for US and UK cultural institutions, and researchers to network around the topic of food. 2) the NERC Sustainable Plastics Packaging project: "Reducing plastic packaging and food waste through product innovation simulation." This project expands and enhances the Household Simulation Model to focus on plastic food packaging to help manufactures provide the right type of packaging to reduce both food and plastic waste. the Household Simulation Model is currently used by WRAP and industry to reduce food waste in many food products. 3) The Alpro Foundation funded project: "Communicating the environmental impact of plant based recipes". This project produces a tool that calculates the calories, the biodiversity, economic, and climate benefits of plant-based recipes.

From 2017 to 2020, Christian was employed WRAP as Technical Specialist in international food sustainability. In 2017-18 Christian worked on integrating healthy sustainable eating and food waste reduction messages on a wide variety of projects including the EU-LIFE funded TRiFOCAL project. From 2018-2020 Christian moved to the WRAP Global team, working on Food Waste and Sustainable Eating, working on the REFRESH project, and with multiple global partners including the World Bank, NRDC, and WWF.

Christian and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield, and at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia.

From 2016-2020 Christian was a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow (N8 AgriFood project) at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, and a STFC Food network+ Champion.

From 2014-2016, Christian was employed as a Public Health Research Fellow at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, where he looked at healthy sustainable diets for high and low income groups using linear programming and agent based modelling.

In 2020, Christian was awarded the Alpro foundation, Scientific Paper award for Young Scientists for his research on Affordable, healthy and sustainable diets for all income groups in the UK.

In 2019, Christian was awarded "best presentation" at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery for his research on sustainable cookery.

In 2014, Christian was a finalist in the PhD Research Excellence – Life or Environmental Sciences category of the South Australian Science Excellence Awards; and was the Waste Management Association of Australia, Young Professionals NSW 2012 Scholarship recipient.

Publications

Publications by category

Book

  • Reynolds, C., Soma, T., Spring, C. and Lazell, J. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste. Routledge.

Chapters (16)

  • Cleghorn, C.L. and Reynolds, C. (2022). Importance of Sustainable Food Environments. In Evans, C.E.L. (Ed.), Transforming Food Environments (pp. 263–276). Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-00-304372-0.
  • Salemdeeb, R., Reynolds, C. and Rivera, X.S. (2022). Chapter 9. Environmental impacts of different waste to food approaches. Waste to Food (pp. 209–233). Wageningen Academic Publishers.
  • Reynolds, C., Oakden, L., West, S., Pateman, R., Elliott, C., Armstrong, B. … Patel, M. (2021). Citizen science for the food system. In Cohen, K. and Doubleday, R. (Eds.), Future Directions for Citizen Science and Public Policy (pp. 55–69). Cambridge: Centre for Science and Policy. ISBN 978-0-9932818-1-5.
  • Hoornweg, D., Lougheed, S., Walker, M., Salemdeeb, R., Soma, T. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food Waste Management, Treatment and Disposal Options. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 443–454). Routledge.
  • Kandemir, C., Reynolds, C., Verma, M., Grainger, M., Stewart, G., Righi, S. … Quested, T. (2020). Modelling Approaches to Food Waste. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 326–344). Routledge.
  • Oelofse, S., Nahman, A., Barjees Baig, M., Salemdeeb, R., Nizami, A.-.S. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food Waste Within South Africa and Saudi Arabia. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 207–224). Routledge.
  • Mirosa, M., Pearson, D. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food Waste in Australia and New Zealand. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 225–236). Routledge.
  • Spring, C., Soma, T., Lazell, J. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food Waste. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 1–20). Routledge.
  • Kandemir, C., Reynolds, C., Verma, M., Grainger, M., Stewart, G., Righi, S. … Quested, T. (2020). Modelling Approaches to Food Waste. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 326–344). Routledge.
  • Hoornweg, D., Lougheed, S., Walker, M., Salemdeeb, R., Soma, T. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food Waste Management, Treatment and Disposal Options. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 443–454). Routledge.
  • Spring, C., Soma, T., Lazell, J. and Reynolds, C. (2020). Food waste: An introduction to contemporary food waste studies. Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (pp. 1–19). ISBN 978-1-138-61586-1.
  • Gover, M., Swannell, R. and Reynolds, C. (2019). Addressing the Food Loss and Waste Challenge – a WRAP perspective. Proceedings of the Workshop Food Loss and Waste Reduction Vatican City: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
  • Reynolds, C.J., Buckley, J., Weinstein, P. and Boland, J. (2017). Sustainability Challenges, Human Diet and Environmental Concerns. In Bhat, R. (Ed.), Sustainability Challenges in the Agrofood Sector (pp. 48–78). Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-07276-8.
  • Reynolds, C.J., Buckley, J.D., Weinstein, P. and Boland, J. (2016). Are the Dietary Guidelines for Meat, Fat, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Appropriate for Environmental Sustainability? A Review of the Literature. Sustainable Food and Beverage Industries: Assessments and Methodologies (pp. 263–280). ISBN 978-1-77188-410-5.
  • (2007). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. In Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4051-2433-1.
  • Reynolds, C. and Mavrakis, V. Food Waste. (pp. 1–2). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Conference papers and proceedings (13)

  • Pickering, J. and Reynolds, C. (2022). Using qualitative methods to inform a household plastic packaging and food waste simulation model. Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) 2022 15-17 March, Online.
  • Reynolds, C. (2022). The evolution of “sustainable” and vegetarian recipes from manuscripts and cookbooks to online: Their environmental impact, and what this means for the future. Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food Food and the Environment: The Dynamic Relationship Between Food Practices and Nature 11-12 February, online.
  • Reynolds, C. (2022). Alternative food systems for urban food security. 3rd International Symposium on Nutrition (ISN 2022): Urban Food Policies for Sustainable Nutrition and Health 27-28 January, online.
  • Reynolds, C., Takacs, B., Ignatiev, I., Tenev, D. and Penev, V. (2021). Calculating GHGE impacts and carbon labels for generic meals. LEAP Conference 2021 6 December, Oxford, Online.
  • Reynolds, C. (2021). Meat food waste in households - Using discrete event simulation to provide an evidence base for reducing global household meat waste. 67th International Congress of Meat Science and Technology 23-27 August, Kraków, Poland.
  • Reynolds, C. (2021). Food waste, sustainable diets and climate change Coherent solutions in the long view. Food Values Research Group, The University of Adelaide, June 2021 seminar 28 June, The University of Adelaide, Online.
  • da Silva, J.T., Kluczkovski, A., Schmidt, X., Frankowska, A., da Cruz, G.L., Martins, C.A. … Levy, R.B. (2020). Trends in the environmental impacts of unprocessed or minimally processed, processed, and ultra-processed animal products in Brazil over 30 years. Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) Conference 2020 8 December.
  • Reynolds, C. (2020). Food and Citizen Science. Understanding food in a digital world: ESRC Festival of Social Science: FSA Event in partnership with the University of Sheffield 9 November.
  • Reynolds, C. (2020). Sustainable Gastronomy: the Environmental Impacts of How We Cook Now and How the “Sustainable Diets” Agenda Might Shape How We Cook in the Future? Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 25-29 May, Dublin (online).
  • Reynolds, C., KLUCZKOVSKI, A., FRANKOWSKA, A., DA SILVA, J.T., LEVY, R., RAUBER, F. … BRIDLE, S.L. (2020). ARE WE READY FOR SUSTAINABLE COOKERY? COMPARING CURRENT (AND FUTURE) COOKING AND TIME USE PRACTICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA.
  • Quadros, V., Balcerzak, A., Sousa, R., Ferrari, M., Schmidt Rivera, X., Reynolds, C. … Leclercq, C. (2019). Using individual food consumption data to estimate the environmental impact of diets: the potentiality of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform. Sustainable Food Systems < > Sustainable Diets 11 October.
  • Reynolds, C. (2019). Sustainable Gastronomy; power and energy use in food - is it possible to fight climate change though cookery? Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery 12 July.
  • Matthews, R. and Reynolds, C. (2017). The market value of sleep: using economic input-output analysis to shift society's views on sleep loss.

Internet publication

  • Reynolds, C.J. (2017). Can statistics tell us what is a representative recipe? The case of Yorkshire pudding.

Journal articles (65)

Posters (3)

Reports (11)

  • Reynolds, C., Oakden, L., West, S., Pateman, R. and Elliott, C. (2021). Citizen Science and Food: A Review. London/York: Food Standards Agency.
  • Van Biene, M., Grant, T., Kneller, C., Reynolds, C., Forbes, H. and Sheane, R. (2021). National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study – Final Report..
  • Defeyter, G., Stretesky, P., Long, M., Furey, S., Reynolds, C., Dodds, A. … McAnallen, A. (2020). Food Insecurity and Lived Experience of Students (FILES)..
  • Reynolds, C., Boulding, A., Pollock, H., Sweet, N., Ruiz, J. and Draeger de Teran, T. (2020). Halving Food Loss and Waste in the EU by 2030: the major steps needed to accelerate progress. Berlin (Germany): WWF-WRAP.
  • Sethi, G., Bedregal, L.P.A., Cassou, E., Constantino, L., Hou, X., Jain, S. … Kneller, C. (2020). Addressing Food Loss and Waste : A Global Problem with Local Solutions..
  • Guzman, P., Reynolds, C. and Sharpe, R. (2019). Revitalising local economies: How food hubs can help. London: Food Research Collaboration.
  • Guzman, P. and Reynolds, C. (2019). Food Hubs in the UK: Where are we and what next? Food Research Collaboration. ISBN 978-1-903957-52-3.
  • Bajzelj, B., Reynolds, C., Falconer Hall, M. and Kramer, G. (2019). Eating healthily, sustainably and conveniently - Meeting nutritional and environmental goals without sacrificing convenience. Banbury: WRAP.
  • Reynolds, C., Hodgson, H. and Bajzelj, B. (2019). An improved picture of the UK diet - Linking production, consumption and waste data to provide a better dietary picture. Banbury: WRAP.
  • Bajzelj, B., Morgan, S., Tustian, E., Reynolds, C. and Kerrell, E. (2019). ‘Eat Well, Waste Less’ pilot study. Banbury: WRAP.
  • Psarikidou, K., Kaloudis, H., Fielden, A. and Reynolds, C.J. (2018). Local Food Hubs in Deprived Areas: An ‘Action Pack’ for Community Organisations. Lancaster University: Lancaster University. ISBN 978-1-86220-354-9.

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