Sydney Urban Food Innovation Pathways

About: Sydney Urban Food Innovation Pathways

This research project was designed to pilot a holistic conceptual mapping to capture stories of urban food system innovation in the City of Sydney local government area.

The Sydney project is part of a larger project Mapping Urban-Driven Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems that drew directly on methodology developed by the global URBAL project team. This methodology aimed at capturing and creating links between innovators, policy-makers, researchers and funders. 

Specifically, this methodology considers urban food innovation as social process and examines the social factors that contribute to food innovation success. That is –what are the relationships, networks, policies, learning, support systems created and experienced by humans that lead to food innovation

Outputs: Sydney Urban Food Innovation Pathways

The project co-created several open-access outputs including

1. Food Innovator Journey Maps (hard copy and digitised)
2. A podcast 'Food Forward' that included the food innovator journeys
3. A website
4. A Food-SCAN Toolkit for practitioners and researchers to use for undertaking Food Innovation mapping in other locations. 
5. Reports and academic documents. 

Research Details: 

1. Chief Investigator: Dr Sarina Kilham
2. Co-investigators: Dr Tania Leimbach, Dr Tanja Rosenqvist
3. Ethics Approval: Charles Sturt University Human Research Ethics Committee Protocol Approval: H21466
4. Project Timeline: 2021-2023
5. Funding: City of Sydney Knowledge Exchange Sponsorship [2021/159649 / KEX 202122041]; The Australian Sociological Association: Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program 2022; Charles Sturt University in-kind contribution
6. Professional Services: Deliberately Engaging; Spring in Alaska Digital Agency; The Brain Studios Voice & Music Recording