Kelli Kennedy

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Dr Carolyn Snell

Thesis Title

Food Security Infrastructure Framework: The Cases of Leeds, England and Fresno, California

Biography

Biography

Kelli recently completed her role as a Research Associate on the 'Corporations and Food Insecurity in the Global North' research project, led by Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford. The project explores the different dimensions of relationships between food corporations and food charities in the UK at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. She also in 2023 concluded her time as a researcher for the project, ‘Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in transition to net zero’, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Kelli is the founding member of the Social Policy Association’s Climate Justice and Social Policy group, whose aim is to follow and critically assess the interactions between UK climate and social policy.

In 2021 Kelli led an ESRC Impact Accelerator Account project entitled, ‘Supermarket Corporate Social Responsibility Schemes: Working Towards Ethical Schemes Promoting Food Security’ via The University of York Social Science Enterprise Scheme (SSES). The project included a workshop with UK food charity practitioners, knowledge exchange in the UK supermarket industry, and a webinar for wider stakeholders addressing how supermarkets can help end food insecurity.

Publications

Publications

Kennedy, K., and Snell, C. (2023) Relationships between supermarkets and food charities in reducing food insecurity: lessons learned. Voluntary Sector Review (published online ahead of print 2023).

Middlemiss, L., Snell, C., Morrison, E., Chzhen, Y., Owen, A., Kennedy, K., Theminimulle, S. and Carregha, T. (2023) Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero. Social Policy and Society, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–21.

Snell, C., Scott, M., Jenkins, K., Kennedy, K., Thomson, H., Yenneti, K., Stockton, H. and Gough, I. (2022) Climate justice, social policy and the transition to net zero in the UK, Social Policy Review, 34, pp 1-23

Kennedy, K. and Snell, C. (2021) How can supermarkets help end food insecurity?

Research

Research topic

Food poverty, food charity, and climate justice

Research interests

• Food (in)security
• Food corporations and food charity
• Just transition to net zero