Eighth Meeting of the ACSS (Remote) Wednesday 26th January (13.00 – 16.00) Agenda

13.00: Welcome and introductions (SM, 5 mins)

13.05: Declaration of interests (SM, 5 mins)

13.10: Actions from the last meeting (SM, 5 mins)

13.15: Chairs update (SM/JH, 5 mins)

13.20: Secretariat update (BG, 5 mins)

13:25: ACSS working group updates (35mins)

• Assurance (HLM, 10 mins)
• Kitchen Life 2 (JB, 5 mins)
• Climate Change and Consumer Behaviour (JH, 10 mins)
• Wider Consumer Interests (TBC, 5 mins)

14.00:  ACSS support to Economic Analysis (ND, 10 mins)  

14:10: BREAK (30 mins)

14:40: Update from Science Council Chair (ST, 10 mins) 

14.50: Analytics Unit update (MP/TJ, 10 mins)

15.00: New work programmes in Analytics Unit (20 mins)

Behavioural trials (PJ, 10 mins)

Wider consumer interests (EM, 10 mins)

15:20: The Emerging FSA Strategy (BH, 15 mins)

15:35: Social Science Coverage of FSA Strategy themes (BG, 20 mins)

15.55: AOB

16.00: Close

Meeting papers

• 8.1: Secretariat Update (item 5)
• 8.2: Assurance Working Group update (item 6a)
• 8.3: Kitchen Life 2 Working Group update (item 6b)
• 8.4: Climate Change and Consumer Behaviour Working Group update (item 6c)
• 8.5: Wider Consumer Interests Working Group update (item 6d)
• 8.6: Working Group Proposition: Economic Support (item 7)
• 8.7: FSA Analytics Unit Update (items 10 and 11)
• 8.8: Social Science Coverage of FSA Strategy themes (item 13)  

Attendees

ACSS members  

• Professor Susan Michie (SM), Chair 
• Ms Julie Hill (JH), Deputy Chair  
• Professor Julie Barnett (JB) 
• Dr Seda Erdem (SE) 
• Professor Dan Rigby (DR)
• Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford (HLM)
• Professor George Gaskell (GG) 
• Professor Spencer Henson (SH) 

Food Standards Agency 

• Michelle Patel (MP), Deputy Director of SERD
• Ben Haden (BH), Head of Strategy Delivery  
• Jo Disson (JD), Head of Social Science 
• Tim Johnston (TJ), Head of Analytics

• Nick Daniel (ND), Economist
• Ely Mirzahosseinkhan (EM), Social Science
• Phil Jones (PJ), Social Science
• Rebecca Gillespie (RG), ACSS Secretariat 
• Anya Mohideen (AM), ACSS Secretariat 
• Maya King (MK), ACSS Secretariat

Other Attendees 

• Professor Sandy Thomas (ST), Science Council Chair  
• Susan Bond (SB), FSS
• Bethan Mead (BM), TUKFS FSA fellow