Platform Research
Food Safety
Develop novel technologies
& approaches to enhance
food safety and protect
against emerging challenges
Sustainable Foods
Develop sustainable crop
and animal production
systems that ensure
resilience, yield and
quality
Health & Nutrition
Provide the evidence-base
for the development of
healthy diets from
sustainable sources
Data Modelling
Develop a framework to
support federation, mapping
and analysis of food system
data
Trust in Food Systems
Integration of data to map the food system and undertake scenario modelling to realise improvements in food production, processing and consumption.
Launch of the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Patrick O’Donovan TD and Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir welcomed the launch of the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems on May 29th 2024.
Managed jointly by Queen’s University Belfast, University of Sheffield and University College Dublin, the Co-Centre will bring together world-leading researchers from across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain for the first time, with research expertise in specific shared areas of common interest that are core to food system transformation including: food safety, food production, nutrition, plant and animal science, behavioural change, data science, food system governance, and the political process of food system transformation.
