Ninth Meeting of the ACSS (Remote) Wednesday 20th July (10.00 – 13.00) Agenda

10.00: Welcome and introductions (SM, 5 mins)

10.05: Declaration of interests (SM, 5 mins)

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

10.15: Chairs update (SM, 15 mins)

10.30: Secretariat update (RG, 5 mins, paper 9.1)

10.35: Analytics Unit update (TJ/JD, 15 mins, paper 9.2)

10.50: Update from Science Council chair (ST, 10 mins)

11.00: Working group updates (30 mins)

• Assurance (HLM, 5 mins, paper 9.3)
• Kitchen Life 2 (JB, 5 mins, paper 9.4)
• Climate Change and Consumer Behaviour (JH, 5 mins, paper 9.5)
• Wider Consumer Interests (SH, 5 mins, paper 9.6)
• Economics Support (SH, 5 mins, paper 9.7)

11.30: Break (30 mins)

9. 12.00: FSA research exploring household food insecurity

(AB/ZL/JD, 25m, paper 9.8)

10. 12:25: Discussion around future work plan exploring household food insecurity (All, 30m, paper 9.8)
11. 12.55: AOB
12. 13.00: Close

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
• Jo Disson (JD), Head of Social Science 
• Tim Johnston (TJ), Head of Analytics

• Rebecca Gillespie (RG), ACSS Secretariat 
• Anya Mohideen (AM), ACSS Secretariat 
• Abbie Collins (AC), ACSS Secretariat    
• Helen Heard (HH), Senior Research officer
• Alice Rayner (AR), Senior Research officer
• Nick Daniel (ND), Chief Economist
• Andrew Brickett (AB), Senior Strategy Advisor
• Zena Lopez (ZL), Head of Strategy Delivery

Other Attendees 

• Professor Sandy Thomas (ST), Science Council Chair  

Associated Papers

• 9.1: Secretariat Update (item 5)
• 9.2: FSA Analytics Unit Update (item 6)
• 9.3: Assurance Working Group update (item 8)
• 9.4: Kitchen Life 2 Working Group update (item 8)
• 9.5: Climate Change and Consumer Behaviour Working Group update (item 8)
• 9.6: Wider Consumer Interests Working Group update (item 8)
• 9.7: Economics Working Group update (item 8)
• 9.8: Equity and inequality in FSA research, and proposed future work exploring household food insecurity (items 9 and 10)
• Ninth Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Science (July 2022) Minutes
• Ninth Meeting of the ACSS (July 2022) Agenda