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Title: Dr. Job Title: Genomics Forum Policy Research Fellow Tel: 0131 651 4743 Fax: Email: christine.knight@ed.ac.uk Building: St John's Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ Room Number: 3.08
I began work at the Genomics Forum in June 2008. My background is in literary studies, more recently moving into cultural and food studies. I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1st class) and PhD in English, both from the University of Adelaide, South Australia.
I have a longstanding interest in interdisciplinarity and engagement with audiences outside the humanities and social sciences, including policymakers, scientists and the general public. For my PhD I received joint support from, and was based at, the Human Nutrition Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Before joining the Genomics Forum I worked in government and parliamentary research in South Australia.
Current work
As Policy Research Fellow I have a hybrid remit in knowledge exchange and research. I coordinate engagement with policy audiences on behalf of the Genomics Forum, and support policy engagement activities across the Genomics Network. I can respond to enquiries from Network staff seeking support to engage with policy audiences, and from anyone external to the Genomics Network with an interest in the policy implications of our work.
My current projects span the following topics, integrating research and knowledge exchange in their design and outputs:
Journal articles
Indigenous nutrition research and the low-carbohydrate diet movement: explaining obesity and diabetes in Protein Power. Continuum 25.6 (2011). In press.
“Most people are simply not designed to eat pasta”: evolutionary explanations for obesity in the low-carbohydrate diet movement Public Understanding of Science 20.5 (2011).
“If you’re not allowed to have rice, what do you have with your curry?”: nostalgia and tradition in low-carbohydrate diet discourse and practice Sociological Research Online 16.2 (2011).
(with Claire Lightowler) Reflections of “knowledge exchange professionals” in the social sciences: emerging opportunities and challenges for university-based knowledge brokers Evidence & Policy 6.4 (2010).
Ada’s piano-playing in Jane Campion’s The Piano: genteel accomplishment or Romantic self-expression? Australian Feminist Studies vol. 21 no. 49 (March 2006).
Book chapters
Nostalgia and authenticity in low-carbohydrate dieting. In Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2005. Ed. Richard Hosking. Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 2006.
“The food nature intended you to eat”: low-carbohydrate diets and primitivist philosophy. In The Atkins Diet and Philosophy. Ed. Lisa Heldke, Kerri Mommer, and Cynthia Pineo. Chicago: Open Court, 2005.
Selected Non-Academic Publications
Low-carb dieting, families and cultural identity Fare Choice, Issue 53, Community Food and Health Scotland, September 2010.
In my view… low-carb diets. Network, Issue 105, British Sociological Association, Summer 2010.
(with Isabel Fletcher, Emma Frow & David Ingram) Genomics Forum response, BBSRC consultation on Future Directions in Research relating to Food Security July 2009.
Invited presentations
Beauty, fat and food. Medical Humanities Research Network launch event, University of Edinburgh, 19 May 2011.
Digesting the Atkins diet: a framework for understanding contemporary food movements. Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York, 22 February 2011.
(with Claire Lightowler) Emerging opportunities and challenges for university-based knowledge brokers in the social sciences. Symposium on Changing Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education, Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference, Newport, South Wales, 15 December 2010.
“The food nature intended you to eat”: nutritional primitivism and low-carbohydrate dieting. SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London, 19 November 2010.
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