Food Study Group Conference Programme

Registration opens at 9am on Monday, 5th July, prior to the conference programme starting at 10am.  The conference ends after the special panel debate, at 5:35pm on Tuesday, 6th July.  Programme details are available below:

• Outline Programme
• Programme Grid
• Programme by Session
• AGM Agenda
• Request to Join the Food Study Group Organisating Committee

Sheila Dillon will attend the Poster Session and Drinks Reception and present a short ‘viewpoint’ about her observations about food in/from the UK and elsewhere.

Sheila Dillon is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme.  She comes from Hoghton, Lancashire, the village where in 1603 a drunken James VI of Scotland, en route to take the throne of England, knighted the loin of beef he was served in HoghtonTower’s banqueting hall—hence Sirloin. Sheila says the story may be apocryphal but it shows that good food has long been taken seriously in her part of the country.

Sheila has had a varied career but it was in the US 20 years ago when she understood what she really wanted to do – cover the subject of food: the pleasures of eating it and the politics of producing it. She became associate editor of Food Monitor magazine. Moving back to London , she heard Derek Cooper present the BBC’s Food Programme, and knew that working there would be the perfect job. She was hired as a reporter in 1987, and a year later became senior producer. She and Derek won awards for investigative reporting and features about BSE, the food system in Russia and Ukraine after the collapse of communism, the science of the new fats, the development of organic farming, bioengineered foods and supermarket power. Last year Sheila won the Glenfiddich Award for best broadcast for a programme on food & poverty, produced by Jessica Mitchell. Sheila also created Veg Talk, BBC Radio 4’s interactive grocery show.

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